Drachmas Country Quotes & Sayings

likely explanation for Elfriede's connection to Kurban Said first presented itself to me a few weeks after I visited the castle. — Tom Reiss

I won once [an Oscar]. So it can't be that racist. — Whoopi Goldberg

When I was a young man, I was a baritone, very far from possessing the whole range of the tenor then. — Placido Domingo

It was called dub, a sensuous mosaic cooked from vast libraries of digitalized pop; it was worship, Molly said, and a sense of community. — William Gibson

Only danger is real, and difficulty. Yet we live to make our lives safe - and those of others. (..) I will fight my own people to keep them from fighting, for as long as can be. Never fight, until it is unsafe not to fight, unsafe for our souls as well as our bodies. Then fight for their safety, - but when it is won, remember that safety itself is unsafe. For what is safety? It is sleepy thing. It does not make one happy. It does not remind one that it is good to be alive. Life is taken for granted, so it is no longer surprise. It grows dull and monotonous, one lives as a tree or a cabbage or a cow in the straw of the byre. Our forefathers scorned "a straw death". A straw life is worse. — Margaret Irwin

In spite of the great advances which have been made in our knowledge, some fundamental gaps remain. Matter, life and mind still remain utter disparate phenomena, yet the concepts of all three arise in experience; and in the human all three meet and intermingle. — Jan Smuts

The real offense, as she ultimately perceived, was in having a mind of her own at all. — Henry James

The more boldly a man dares, the more richly his land bears — Yu Hua