"All the men I did get to know, every single man of them, has filled me with but one desire: to lift my hand and bring it smashing down on his face."

-- Nawal El Saadawi

#Men Quotes #Hands Quotes #Desire Quotes

“Even though fixed in time, a photograph evokes as much feeling as that which comes from music or dance. Whatever the mode - from the snapshot to the decisive moment to multi-media montage - the intent and purpose of photography is to render in visual terms feelings and experiences that often elude the ability of words to describe. In any case, the eyes have it, and the imagination will always soar farther than was expected.”
“I need someone who is willing to watch me brave the ocean and then dare me not to drown.”

Source : Colleen Hoover (2014). “Maybe Someday”, p.293, Simon and Schuster
“Love is not lust. The two (love and lust) are poles apart. Love liberates while lust binds.”

Source : "A Practical Guide to Samadhi". Book by Swami Narayanananda, p. 144 (2001 edition), 1957.
“I am a queen, and I demand to be treated like a queen.”

Source : "The Diddly Awards: Honoring Our Do-Nothing Congress" by Jack Hitt, www.motherjones.com. May/June 2000.
“Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.”
“I almost took the door off the car”
“I had seen how in an instant, those you called friends could suddenly become tormentors, sniffing out a weakness or a difference, turning their own fear of ostracism into a weapon with which they could beat the victim away, afraid that being an outsider, and individual even, was somehow infectious.”

Source : Meera Syal (1996). “Anita and Me”, Indus
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