Sirantha Quotes

#1. I'm Sirantha Jax, and I have had enough.

Ann Aguirre

#2. When people think you're dying, they really, really listen to you, instead of just waiting for their turn to speak

Chuck Palahniuk

#3. I'm not a great deductive thinker, but I will admit to having competence in a very wide range of things - not being afraid to try to write about baseball, choral music and dinosaurs in the same week and see connections among them.

Stephen Jay Gould

#4. I'd rather be mad than feel pleasure.

Antisthenes

#5. What was worse than losing you was when you started to hurt me. Your words and actions made me hate coming to school. They made me uncomfortable in my own home.

Penelope Douglas

#6. The reading of books, what is it but conversing with the wisest men of all ages and all countries.

Isaac Barrow

#7. Our own acts are isolated and one act does not buy absolution for another.

William Butler Yeats

#8. Happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.

Henri Frederic Amiel

#9. Funny how the darkness smelled the same everywhere. She could have been anywhere in the universe, anywhere at all.

Anne Corlett

#10. These people," he had said with his inscrutable smile, "are different from us. They don't care about books and such things.

Azar Nafisi

#11. How odd it is that sewing is thought to be 'women's work' when surgeons, sailors, and cowboys sew too. Yet how many female thoracic surgeons are there? And if precision motor activities are thought to be performed better by women, why wouldn't they make better surgeons too?

Gretel Ehrlich

#12. The Mars settlement may not grow that quickly, although the length of a sea voyage cross the Atlantic in the 1600's is comparable to the time it will take people to get to Mars on a spacecraft, and the cost, in relative terms, is not that different.

Stephen L. Petranek

#13. Three sparks
pride, envy, and avarice
have been kindled in all hearts.

Dante Alighieri

#14. The intellectual quest is exquisite like pearls and coral, But it is not the same as the spiritual quest. The spiritual quest is on another level altogether, Spiritual wine has a subtler taste. The intellect and the senses investigate cause and effect. The spiritual seeker surrenders to the wonder.

Rumi