Dessou Quotes & Sayings

No one writes better historical fiction than Steven Pressfield. The Afghan War that was waged by Alexander the Great 2000 years ago is eerily similar to the one that's being fought today. This book should be required reading for anyone who wants to better understand what American and Coalition forces are up against in one of history's most tribal and troubled regions. — Vince Flynn

French laicite is probably aggressive and antagonistic to the religion, but there are other models of secularism in the world where there could be reconciliation between religion and secularism. — Rashid Al-Ghannushi

You can order the sun to come up if you time it right. I'm not driving this bus. Making it do what I want would be like talking someone out of a seizure. — James S.A. Corey

But don't raise your eyes in defiance,
Protect my life, my dear.
They're brighter than first violets,
But deadly to me, I fear. — Anna Akhmatova

This is what keeps ghosts locked to the earth, that sweet burning need for something they loved and gave up too soon. — Cathie Pelletier

Introspection and preserved writings give us far more insight into the ways of past humans than we have into the ways of past dinosaurs. For that reason, I'm optimistic that we can eventually arrive at convincing explanations for these broadest patterns of human history. — Jared Diamond

Oh baby, he whispers. Steps back. Out of the doorway. His face ashen. He walks slowly back to the kitchen. Leans over the counter. Puts his head in his hands. His hair falls over his fingers.
The bathroom door clicks shut.
She stays there for a long time.
He's pulling his hair out. — Lisa McMann

The narration, in fact, doubles the drama with a commentary without which no mise en scene would be possible. — Jacques Lacan

Jet ski and wild noises. — DJ Khaled

In describing a fairy story which they think adults might possibly read for their own entertainment, reviewers frequently indulge in such waggeries as: 'this book is for children from the ages of six to sixty'. But I have never yet seen the puff of a new motor-model that begun thus: 'this toy will amuse infants from seventeen to seventy'; though that to my mind would be much more appropriate. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Every tour is different. We like to give people a piece of something. — Mikey Way

When you are stressed on mind ... to pour it out, is the behaviour, most kind! — Sujit Lalwani

Sex is the driving force on the planet. We should embrace it, not see it as the enemy. — Hugh Hefner

Talk about the flag or drugs or crime (never about race or class or justice) and follow the yellow brick road to the wonderful land of consensus. In place of honest argument among consenting adults the politicians substitute a lullaby for frightened children: the pretense that conflict doesn't really exist, that we have achieved the blessed state in which we no longer need politics. — Lewis H. Lapham

Form up," I murmured, because it sounded more military and tougher than saying, "You guys go first. — Jim Butcher