Chinks Quote by Arundhati Roy Download Open image “Madness slunk in through a chink in History. It only took a moment.” — Arundhati Roy ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Chinks Madness Moments Time
And have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the sense? --now, I say, there came to… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Madness strips you of memory and leaves you scrabbling around on the floor of your brain for the snatches and snippets of what happened,… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
Madness is a divine release of the soul from the yoke of custom and convention. — Plato Copy Share Image
It was the first time that I came face to face with madness and feared it and was fascinated by it. — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
The 'chinked out' style is a school of hip hop - that's the way I like to think of it - that incorporates Chinese… — Wang Leehom Copy Share Image
“Dictatorships, wars, and cruelty drive whole countries to madness. My theory is that the human species was crazy from the very first and that… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
“The first sign of madness is a howl that, once uncorked, cannot stop.” — Sana Krasikov Copy Share Image
Everything previously moving with the grain is now against - you are irritable, angry, frightened, uncontrollable, and enmeshed totally in the blackest caves of… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
...As the disparity between the rich and the poor grows, the fight to corner resources is intensifying. To push through their "sweetheart deals," to corporatize the crops we grow, the water we drink, the air we breathe, and the dreams we dream, corporate globalization needs an international confederation of loyal, corrupt, authoritarian governments in poorer countries to push through unpopular… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share
In 2001, we were told that the war in Afghanistan was a feminist mission. The marines were liberating Afghan women from the Taliban. Can you really bomb feminism into a country? And now, after 25 years of brutal war - 10 years against the Soviet occupation, 15 years of US occupation - the Taliban is riding back to Kabul and… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share
Flat muscled and honey coloured. Sea secrets in his eyes. A silver raindrop in his ear. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Fiction and non-fiction are only different techniques of story telling. For reasons I do not fully understand, fiction dances out of me. Non-fiction is… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
NGOs have a complicated space in neoliberal politics. They are supposed to mop up the anger. Even when they are doing good work, they… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I've never been that person who thought that because I've written one novel, I should write another and another. It's only when there was… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly only if they're used. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I think one of the saddest things that's happening to literature is that it's getting over-simplified by this diet of simple political ideas. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
The only dream worth having, I told her, is to dream that you will live while you're alive and die only when you're dead. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
But what was there to say? Only that there were tears. Only that Quietness and Emptiness fitted together like stacked spoons. Only that there was a snuffling in the hollows at the base of a lovely throat. Only that a hard honey-colored shoulder had a semicircle of teethmarks on it. Only that they held each other close, long after it… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share
Truly, there's no alternative to stupidity. Cretinism is the mother of fascism. I have no defence against it, really… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Nothing is so engaging as the little domestic cares into which you appear to be entering, and as to reading it is useful for… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Our errors and failings are chinks in the heart's armor through which our true colors can shine. — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
They smell of all the baths they didnt take. The trouble with China is, there are too many chinks here. — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
Come on now! You kick out the gooks, the next thing you know, you have to kick out the chinks, the spicks, the spooks,… — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
If any Englishman said he has never called a Chinaman a chink he is lying. There is nothing bad about doing that. It is… — Dave Whelan Copy Share Image
If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he… — William Blake Copy Share Image
The passion for revenge should never blind you to the pragmatics of the situation. There are some people who are so blighted by their past, so warped by experience and the pull of that silken cord, that they never free themselves of the shadows that live in the time machine... And if there is a kind thought due them, it… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share
The gothic is singular in this; one seems easily at home in the renaissance; one is not too strange in the Byzantine; as for… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
If I should be fated to walk no more with Nature, be compelled to leave all I most devoutly love in the wilderness, return to civilization and be twisted into the characterless cable of society, then these sweet, free, cumberless rovings will be as chinks and slits on life's horizon, through which I may obtain glimpses of the treasures that… — John Muir Copy Share
Visiting my mind is like visiting the Hermes factory. Sh*t is real. You're not going to find a chink. It's 100,000 per cent Jimi… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
You have taught us much. Come with us and join the movement." "This movement of yours, does it have slogans?" inquired the Chink. "Right on!" they cried. And they quoted him some. "Your movement, does it have a flag?" asked the Chink. "You bet!" and they described their emblem. "And does your movement have leaders?" "Great leaders." "Then shove it… — Tom Robbins Copy Share
