Simin Daneshvar Quotes

#1. When I was 8 years old, it mattered what my favorite singer said and wore and expressed opinions about.

Taylor Swift

#2. Simple people have much to offer. We, too, in return, must give to them to the best of our abilities. We must, with all our heart, try to help them acquire what they truly deserve.

Simin Daneshvar

#3. Every intellectual revolution which has ever stirred humanity into greatness has been a passionate protest against inert ideas. Then, alas, with pathetic ignorance of human psychology, it has proceeded by some educational scheme to bind humanity afresh with inert ideas of its own fashioning.

Alfred North Whitehead

#4. It's good to be a bear and not take yourself so damn seriously.

Edmond Manning

#5. I wish the world was run by women. Women who have given birth and know the value of their creation.

Simin Daneshvar

#6. Extended my hands towards the sky and began thanking God.

H.G.Wells

#7. Elephants love to play around. They are very intelligent animals. They have a strong bond, at times stretching to several decades, with their mahouts.

Mark Shand

#8. No kid in the world, no woman in the world should ever raise a hand against a no-good daddy. That's already been taken care of: A Man Who Destroys His Own Home Shall Inherit the Wind.

Dick Gregory

#9. I love e-books. I can carry the complete works of William Shakespeare around with me all the time. Just think about that. Whether I'm on an airplane or wherever. Being able to have a library in your back pocket basically is something I support.

Steve Earle

#10. The cross is not the terrible end to an otherwise godfearing and happy life, but it meets us at the beginning of our communion with Christ.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#11. Being in a person's head for five months, where they're so hateful, is kind of exhausting.

James Norton

#12. I have carried that ring every moment of the last twelve years. I bought it the day after I first saw you at the ball. The ruby reminded me of the rose gleaming in your black hair."
~Lord Malcom Ashford

Celeste Bradley

#13. Mourning is not forbidden, you know.

Simin Daneshvar

#14. Everything which you can conceive and accept is yours! Entertain no doubt. Refuse to accept worry or hurry or fear. That which knows and does everything is inside you and harkens to the slightest whisper.

Uell Stanley Andersen