Asli Khushi Quotes & Sayings

I am confident that the British people will not be intimidated by terrorism. — Tom Allen

Where does it all begin? History has no beginnings, for everything that happens becomes the cause or pretext for what occurs afterwards, and this chain of cause and pretext stretches back to the Palaeolithic age, when the first Cain of one tribe murdered the first Abel of another. All war is fratricide, and there is therefore an infinite chain of blame that winds its circuitous route back and forth across the path and under the feet of every people and every nation, so that a people who are the victims of one time become the victimisers a generation later, and newly liberated nations resort immediately to the means of their former oppressors. The triple contagions of nationalism, utopianism and religious absolutism effervesce together into an acid that corrodes the moral metal of a race, and it shamelessly and even proudly performs deeds that it would deem vile if they were done by any other. — Louis De Bernieres

It was important to me to become day-to-day fluent and functional in another language, and about 10 years ago, I went to Rome for the first time and felt an instant gut connection and wanted to get to know the city. — Jhumpa Lahiri

How these curiosities would be quite forgott, did not such idle fellowes as I am putt them downe! — John Aubrey

The way to perfection is through a series of disgusts — Walter Pater

When I was a child, I had wax in my ears. Dad didn't take me to the doctor, he used me as a night light. — Les Dawson

I had therefore, no hesitation in giving all the information I had, even though occasionally I tried to concentrate mainly on giving information about the results of my own work. — Klaus Fuchs

He didn't break my heart. No one can break your heart except you. — Gabrielle Zevin

I cannot draw to save my life, and I'm not a big art scholar, but I worked with many designers throughout my career - in theater, in dance, costume designers, set designers, and I have a lot of artist friends and I do photography, and I think it's kind of in my life. — Mikhail Baryshnikov

Being loved is a good thing. A grand thing. The best damned thing of all. — Lori Wilde