Mechrite Quotes

#1. When I read it now it's like I have broken into a reality that is not mine, and when I step out of it, as if I had removed my headphones and heard the city again, it is easy to close the door behind me.

Olivia Sudjic

#2. We had always segregated sex from feeling and from intellectual love, so you were either pure and virtuous, as Nassrin's uncle had said, or dirty and fun. What was alien to us was eros, true sensuality.

Azar Nafisi

#3. It's hard to know which stars in the sky will turn into black holes. And which ones will open up worm holes into entire new universes.

James Altucher

#4. Time spent with the sick is holy time. It is a way of praising God who conforms us to the image of His Son, who "came not to be served but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many" (Mt 20:28). Jesus Himself said: "I am among you as one who serves" (Lk 22:27)

Pope Francis

#5. Name is precious; it carries inside it a language, a history, a set of traditions, a particular way of looking at the world.

Laila Lalami

#6. It would seem that for my master a book is not a thing to be read, but a device to bring on slumber: a typographical sleeping-pill, a paginated security blanket.

Soseki Natsume

#7. Meditation is not an escape from life ... but preparation for really being in life.

Nhat Hanh

#8. When you feel concentrated within the intensity of making paintings, you know exactly what you are doing.

Luc Tuymans

#9. These rules may seem simple enough, but it will require great morale and physical courage to adhere to them. But if carried out in the strict sense of the word it will surely lead to a greater success than could otherwise be attained.

Major Taylor

#10. All the things she couldn't say, the things no one wanted to hear.

Spencer Gordon

#11. Vice-President Ford, possibly preparing for higher duties, assessed Kissinger's part in the Syrian-Israeli troop disengagement as the great diplomatic triumph of this century or perhaps any other.

Edwin Newman