Akhundov Library Quotes & Sayings

He wanted to share her grace and submissive charms with the people he'd come to regard as his family. And at the same time he wanted to possess her fully, to keep her in his bed at night, and by his side or on her knees in front of him when she wasn't serving the needs and pleasures of the household. — Claire Thompson

Why should we faint, and fear to live alone,
Since all alone, so Heaven has will'd, we die? — Thomas Hardy

On February 8, 1928, known as Lindbergh day since it was the day he crossed the Atlantic Ocean the year before, Charles A. Lindbergh landed at the Campo Columbia airfield near Havana. Lindbergh had visited many countries in his plane, and he had the national flags of each country painted in the fuselage. Having flown from Haiti, on a Goodwill Tour of the Caribbean in his "Spirit of St. Louis," he had the Cuban flag painted on his a single-engine Ryan monoplane. It was the last country he visited before he donated the "Spirit of St. Louis" to the Smithsonian Institution, where it is still exhibited at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. — Hank Bracker

People who think so lightly of their own lives, don't have the right to protect anyone. — Jun Mochizuki

Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The debut show, "Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary," is supposed to be about how artists reuse humble or unusual materials. There's good work here, but much of what's on view is actually more about obsession and repetition: a couch made out of 3,500 quarters, a necklace composed of 100 handgun triggers. The building [of Museum of Arts and Design], too, seems caught between wanting to be an object of decorative delectation and making an architectural statement. — Jerry Saltz

Let movement go on, and the condition of rest will gradually arise. — Lao-Tzu

With this type of thing there are always different opinions and mine is that it is impossible to blame either one of us. [on a crash with Heidfeld] — Michael Schumacher

I am not going to go round trying to make people say 'Wow!' ... I'm not going to play Hollywood lookalikes. — Iain Duncan Smith