Alamut Fortress Quotes & Sayings

The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one. — Toni Morrison

Her book was filled with centaurs because she had not fully grasped the complexity of actual people, actual horses. — Alasdair Gray

I am not the Beatles. I'm me. Paul isn't the Beatles ... The Beatles are the Beatles. Separately, they are separate. — John Lennon

The audience knows the truth, the world is simple. It's miserable, solid all the way through. But if you could fool them, even for a second, then you can make them wonder, and then you got to see something really special. — Hugh Jackman

I am going to seek a great perhaps. — Francois Rabelais

Horace felt an overwhelming need to sneeze. He tried to smother the
sound, but only succeeded in making it louder.
Will looked up angrily, shaking his head in disbelief. "Will you shut up?" he said tautly.
Horace shrugged in apology. "I'm sorry," he said. "I sneezed. A person can't help it
when they sneeze."
"Perhaps not. But you could try to make it sound a little less like an elephant
trumpeting in agony," Will told him.
Horace wasn't prepared to take that lying down. Crouching down, perhaps. But lying
down, never.
"And of course, you'd know what an elephant sounds like! Have you ever heard an
elephant?" he challenged.
But Will was unabashed by his logic."No," he said."But I'm sure it couldn't be any louder
than that sneeze. — John Flanagan

It is said you are the woman who holds all of London in the palm of her hand."

"Perhaps not all of London, Your Grace, but a fortunate few have indeed felt the palm of my hand. — Joanna Shupe

The world wants the kind of men who do not shrink from temporary defeats in life; but come again and wrestle triumph from defeat. — Theodore Roosevelt

Enlightenment is a timeless void. It's an emptiness that's filled with the most excellent light. — Frederick Lenz

Thinking and feeling that have to do with action in association with others is as much a social mode of behavior as is the most overt cooperative or hostile act. — John Dewey

We're going to protect and honor the Constitution, and I don't have the authority to set it aside ... If I had the authority to set it aside, this would be a dangerous government, and I wouldn't respect it. — John Ashcroft