Verkata Quotes

#1. It was a grand old house, the Ayemenem House, but aloof-looking. As though it had little to do with the people who lived in it. Like an old man with rheumy eyes watching children play, seeing only transience in their shrill elation and their whole-hearted commitment to life.

Arundhati Roy

#2. Reproductive freedom is critical to a whole range of issues. If we can't take charge of this most personal aspect of our lives, we can't take care of anything. It should not be seen as a privilege or as a benefit, but a fundamental human right.

Faye Wattleton

#3. A man who is intentionally unarmed relies upon the Unseen Force called God by poets, but called the Unknown by scientists.

Mahatma Gandhi

#4. But it was too late for happy endings. I was already dead.

Aimee Carter

#5. Great people aren't those who are happy at times of convienience and content, but of how they are in times of catastrophy and controversy.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#6. My oblivion is a very Antony and I am all forgotten.

William Shakespeare

#7. Poetry has no goal other than itself; it can have no other, and no poem will be so great, so noble, so truly worthy of the name of poem, than one written uniquely for the pleasure of writing a poem.

Charles Baudelaire

#8. It's a good thing to be old. Because when you get older, that means you haven't died yet, right? And when I do get older, I want to have the grace to be proud of it, not to lie about it or try to fight it.

Penelope Cruz

#9. From now on, nothing is impossible for Israel, which is a normal country like any other. We won't wait another half a century to sit on the Security Council.

Dan Gillerman

#10. sometimes it's the one thing we've never had, but have wanted for so long, that has the power to disappoint us the most.

Tamera Alexander

#11. Every society in the history of man has upheld the institution of marriage as a bond between a man and a woman. Why? Because society is based on one thing: that society is based on the future of the society. And that's what? Children. Monogamous relationships.

Rick Santorum

#12. I thought that ending Glass-Steagall was a mistake.

John Gutfreund

#13. Don't be afraid. Don't be afraid of anything. Whatever you have been, you are mine now. I can hold you.

Peter S. Beagle

#14. Life just doesn't care about our aspirations, or sadness. It's often random, and it's often stupid and it's often completely unexpected, and the closures and the epiphanies and revelations we end up receiving from life, begrudgingly, rarely turn out to be the ones we thought.

Khaled Hosseini