Tersentak Quotes

#1. Why is it that many contemporary male thinkers, especially men of color, repudiate the imperialist legacy of Columbus but affirm dimensions of that legacy by their refusal to repudiate patriarchy?

Bell Hooks

#2. Why did people insist on starting journeys before the sun got warm? It couldn't be healthy.

Patrick W. Carr

#3. Endeavors succeed or fail because of the people involved.

Colin Powell

#4. What's that?"
"The laundry basket?"
"No, next to it."
"I don't see anything next to it."
"It's my last shred of dignity. It's very small.

John Green

#5. I had no specific bent toward science until my grandfather died of stomach cancer. I decided that nobody should suffer that much.

Gertrude B. Elion

#6. If there are patterns of bound emotions then life will bring that to the surface as often as is needed for all feelings to now come and go naturally without any personal sense to them.

Dhyana Stanley

#7. Guys are one click games and we have to be Rubik's cubes. It's not fair.

Bridget Blackwood

#8. Waiting is the rust of the soul.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#9. The only proper intoxication is conversation.

Oscar Wilde

#10. Destiny has a lot to do with it, but so do you. You have to persevere, you have to insist.

Andrea Bocelli

#11. I know that whenever a group of women are gathered together, the grandmother always makes a phantom appearance, hovering above them.

Angela Carter

#12. My brain tells me it will be better to just let him go.
My heart ... not so much.

Simone Elkeles