Fadlallah Assassination Quotes & Sayings

They were tough and sour, but as Pushkin said, 'Dearer to us than a host of truths is an exalting illusion.' I saw a happy man, whose cherished dream had so obviously come true, who had attained his goal in life, had gotten what he wanted, who was content with his fate and with himself. For some reason there had always been something sad mixed with my thoughts about human happiness, but now, at the sight of a happy man, I was overcome by an oppressive feeling close to despair.
- Gooseberries — Anton Chekhov

I would I had a thousand lives that I might give them to ... China! — Lottie Moon

Love really inspires me. — Erica Tazel

The clash between child and adult is never as stubborn as when the child within us confronts the adult in our child. — Robert Breault

Musicality means openness to what is present and what is desired, the ability to make the most of what is currently here. — Anette Prehn

I don't enter, I'm entered. It's up to someone else. It's up to them. — Albert Finney

I won't be turning into Novak anytime soon. — John Isner

My advice and wish to every woman in my country and in the world is very simple: Do not be afraid to be yourself, to have your dream, your vision, and to go for it. We can achieve a lot if we are sincerely committed to our goals and work hard to realize them. — Dalia Grybauskaite

Every year the inventions of science weave more inextricably the web that binds man to man, group to group, nation to nation. — Harry Emerson Fosdick

She fails to see who I am, even, for her eyes do not, will not, take me in. Instead they transmit a powerful message. She is like a billboard flashing, starkly: 'Keep Out'. — Carol Lee

And, hey, I'm not under the illusion that everything's just going to be hunky-dory work wise forever. I've never been under that illusion. Things could go away tomorrow. — Mel Gibson

His fabrications seemed to be the framework of a forgotten but imposing plan; some condition of life of which he was the sole surviving retainer."
--from "La Somnambule" (1937) by Djuna Barnes — Shaun Whiteside

What did science ever do for the world, apart from make better ways of killing people? Sylvie said. — Kate Atkinson