Annina Braunmiller Quotes & Sayings

In February 1912, ancient China came to an end when the last of three millennia of Chinese emperors abdicated.
Imagine twentieth-century Italy coming to terms with the fall of the Roman empire or Egypt with the last pharaoh abdicating in 1912. For China, the last century has been a period of transition - dramatic change and perpetual revolution. — Mark Kurlansky

The fact that no one knows where I am is my only happiness. If only I could prolong this forever! It would be far more just than death. I am empty and futile in every corner of my being, even in my unhappiness. — Franz Kafka

Intelligence is a game of imperfect information. We can guess our opponent's moves, but we can't be sure until the game is over. — Khalid Muhammad

Sometimes it also helps to have a bit less pride. — Alex Flinn

All of life hinges on what one does next, until finally one makes the wrong choice. — Gregory Maguire

I now doubted myself. Innocencce was finite and could not be regenerated. Like spinal fluid. I knew this because I had run out. — Jardine Libaire

Why be a saint unless you could also be a martyr? — Louise Penny

Sleep is death's younger brother, and so like him, that I never dare trust him without my prayers. — Thomas Browne

Understanding and knowledge are completely different sensations in the realm of Truth than they are in the realm of society. — Idries Shah

We ought to be opening a bottle of wine! — Edith Wharton

I consider Ronald Reagan one of the greatest U.S. presidents since the World War II because of his staunch resistance to Communism and his efforts to defend human rights, — Yelena Bonner