Dissented And Persecuted Quotes & Sayings

I understood at those times what I was leaving behind: the solidarity of a shared biology. Women know what it means to have a body. They understand its difficulties and frailties, its glories and pleasures. Men think their bodies are theirs alone. They tend them in private, even in public. — Jeffrey Eugenides

If you were the government you would get the people being angry and trying to find hope to believe something new again. So we didn't have time to do that. It was just two years, the most difficult situation in Greece. — Eva Kaili

Intellectual discourse and investigation is admittedly great fun but only truly meaningful when conducted in the service of others. — Sergio De La Pava

In an odd way, my parents were proud of me. When they saw me do stand-up, I'd see them looking around the room and watch them taking in the people laughing. On some level, that comforted them. — Lizz Winstead

It's difficult the first time you have to get close to kill another. You see their eyes, see the light in it go out. Even a troll's eyes have that light. I'd be worried if you didn't feel something after that. I don't like hunting with a man who's a killer without that feeling. — Raymond E. Feist

Every moment has a momentous gift for you. — Prem Rawat

Very few recordings exist in which Hitler can be heard speaking normally. But in those that do exist, it's evident he possessed quite a warm, calm voice. It's a completely different tone from what he used in his public appearances. — Volker Ullrich

When you get past fifty, you have to decide whether to keep your face or your figure. I kept my face. — Barbara Cartland

I want a baby from an Italian - possibly Sicilian - donor. — Lady Gaga