Fontanka Canal Quotes & Sayings

In our hearts we know that with a different fate, we, too, could be in the ranks of the dispossessed, stripped of our identities and belonging nowhere. The refugee becomes a sinister symbol of what can quickly happen once personhood is denied and people are transformed into disposable units of contemptible impediments to the greed or power-mongering of others. — Dave Mearns

Law is made by the winner to preserve victory over the loser. — Toba Beta

'The bigtime for you is just around the corner.' They told me that first in 1952 - boy, it's been a long corner. If I don't hit the bigtime in the next 25 or 30 years, I'm gonna pack in the music business and become a full-time gigolo. — Ronnie Hawkins

Life itself is nothing but relationship. — Adyashanti

Some games you win, some you lose, and some you draw. — Michel Patini

Why do you joke about such things?" she snapped.
He let his gaze land rather intently on hers. "When the alternative is despair, I generally prefer humor. Even if it is of the gallows variety. — Julia Quinn

Sometimes you might miss that person, sometimes you'll feel like running back to them ... sometimes you'll suffer from unbearable pain but sometimes you have to forget what you feel. And simply remember what you deserve, smile and move on! — Nehali Lalwani

The bungalow was a hideous red-brick structure built, if I had to guess, in the early 1980s by some hack architect who'd been aiming at art deco and hit Tracy Emin instead. — Ben Aaronovitch

We should use all the tools the gods gave us," Juliette said. "Except for the one you wield, this power to make others fear. — Hugh Howey

For over two centuries (or so historians tell us), it was from the St. Petersburg salons that our country's culture advanced. From those great rooms overlooking the Fontanka Canal, new cuisines, fashions, and ideas all took their first tentative steps into Russian society. — Amor Towles

I would like better colouration of my legs, like a little less of that English mottled purple thing that makes it necessary to wear tights all the time. — Lily Cole

Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind. — William Faulkner

A man who destroys a beautiful garden by cutting all its trees is a real murderer and has not as much honour as an animal that treats well to the trees. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Common sense varies among the young, as among the old. — John Edward Christopher Hill

There are mystics who are said to have experienced God directly. He was a mystic,too,and what he had experienced was vacancy-a complete certainty in the existence of a dying, cooling world, of human beings who had evolved from animals for no prose at all. He knew. — Graham Greene

You're not free until you've been made captive by supreme belief. — Marianne Moore