Shama Quotes

#1. You are not the one who speaks your thoughts - you are the one who hears your thoughts." In Hebrew, the word for the highest soul, that which God breathed into Adam, is N'Shama - "the hearer.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#2. For Shama and her sisters and women like them, ambition, if the word could be used, was a series of negatives; not to be unmaried, not to be childless, not to be an undutiful daughter, sister, wife, mother, widow.

V.S. Naipaul

#3. It's taken me a lot of years to peel away my own layers.

Nick Offerman

#4. Desperately struggling, kicking down other people.
Stealing the stolen, while repeating your reasons over and over.
And even so, you aim for the horizon over the hills.
That's why humans are so interesting ...

Yana Toboso

#5. I think this is often misunderstood in the West, where people feel that there can be no justice unless everything is the same. This is part of why I feel we have to relearn how we think about love, because we think about love so much in terms of the self.

Bell Hooks

#6. Then, all of a sudden, here I am in the Press Room in the White House and walking in with the guards, who handed me three little pieces of paper asking me to send pictures to the guards at the White House.

Majel Barrett

#7. You're handsome and you have a nice accent, and a chest that would make a nun perspire.

Katie MacAlister

#8. To know yourself means to spend time looking beyond your worldly identities.

Shama Patel

#9. Blot out, correct, insert, refine, enlarge, diminish, interline. Be mindful, when invention fails. To scratch your head and bite your nails.

Jonathan Swift

#10. Not that the Red Indian will ever possess the broad lands of America. At least I presume not. But his ghost will.

D.H. Lawrence