Emgel Quotes & Sayings

Women scheme when they are weak, they lie out of fear. Men scheme when they are strong, they lie out of arrogance. — Julian Barnes

I have seen statues that would look stodgy beside her, I have seen painted Madonnas whose features would be coarse beside her pale luminous loveliness. — Philippa Gregory

Humility is patient because it is neither past nor forward seeking - it is content. — Bryant McGill

I try to help developing junior chess. When I lived in USSR, I got a lot of free help from very good coaches - now I am trying to repay that debt. — Boris Spassky

A real writer [ ... ] looks not in another writer but himself. — Indro Montanelli

I shall gather myself into my self again,
I shall take my scattered selves and make them one. — Sara Teasdale

I've always thought of nuclear as something that's good for the environment. I worry about my polar bears. — Leslie Dewan

Life was a sorrowful throb of this Matter teaching it anguish, Teaching it hope and desire trod out too soon in the mire, Life the frail joy that regrets its briefness, life the long sorrow. — Sri Aurobindo

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the President of Iran ... in one shot on his website he appears to be dressed only in flowers. Oh - here's the page, you'll see what I mean. — Eddie Mair

The best time to go fishing is when you can — Ed Zern

It's ridiculous and painful to use the Arabic of an Iraqi poet who lived centuries ago to describe what we in Iraq are suffering today. — Hassan Blasim

Which death is preferably to every other? 'The unexpected'. — Julius Caesar