Fa Hien Chinese Traveller Quotes & Sayings

This nation should be less worried about putting the Vietnam syndrome behind us than restarting the World War II victory syndrome that resulted in the Vietnam syndrome in the first place. — Karl Marlantes

Today I killed grandfather... — Agatha Christie

The world he thought he knew had become an odd thing, twisting time and purpose. But it had remained an unfair universe in the end. — Susan Catalano

I clung to my ferocious habits, yet half despised them; I continued my war against civilization, and yet entertained a wish to belong to it. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

We provide proof of a question for which the answer is already known. — Lisa Lutz

We all get intimidated by showing ourselves, for whatever reason, we think, If I really show who I am, and someone goes [pfftt] then it's gonna crush me. Well, it's not gonna crush me. It doesn't crush you if somebody does that- somebody will do that. Many times. And once you accept that that's not why you're doing it, you're doing it because that's your form of expression. — Tori Amos

She thought men and women belonged to different races and any getting together was worse than — Lorna Sage

I assure you that I sleep anywhere, and always like a dormouse. — Leo Tolstoy

When translating one must proceed up to the intranslatable; only then one becomes aware of the foreign nation and the foreign tongue. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I was asked to speak about Canadian politics. It may not be true, but it's legendary that if you're like all Americans, you know almost nothing except for your own country. Which makes you probably knowledgeable about one more country than most Canadians. — Stephen Harper

at eleven years old the doctor weighed me & afterwards, my mother told me i was too fat & that i needed to go on a diet immediately. for an entire year, food barely passed through my lips. i did not even allow myself to take a sip of water because i wanted to be so thin that i could blow away with the slightest breeze - disappear. i dropped sixty pounds in a few short months & i had to wear long sleeves to cover up the "cat scratches." - everybody told me how good i looked, though. — Amanda Lovelace

He was a man, an attractive man if one overlooked the obnoxiousness. But women had to overlook men's personality flaws, else nobody would ever wed and/or reproduce and the human race would come to an end. Naturally — Loretta Chase

In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers. — Lucretius

I have achieved what I set out to achieve when I took over the leadership. The Greens have gone from strength to strength with solid election results and a growing, engaged party membership. — Christine Milne

'Hamilton' is one of the best things I've ever seen on a stage, and for a guy who loves American history, hip-hop and theater, it was pure bliss. — Cory Booker