Fornetti Quotes & Sayings

He began to realize that you cannot even fight happily with creatures that stand upon a different mental basis to yourself. — H.G.Wells

The sudden violent dispossession accompanying a refugee flight is much more than the loss of a permanent home and a traditional occupation, or than the parting from close friends and familiar places. It is also the death of the person one has become in a particular context, and every refugee must be his or her own midwife at the painful process of rebirth. — Dervla Murphy

We are the sum of all the moments in our lives - all that is ours is in them: we cannot escape it or conceal it. — Thomas Wolfe

Competition in academia is so vicious because the stakes are so small. — Laurence J. Peter

I realised that all this talk was of no value and at its best only led to clever phrases. — Hermann Hesse

There's a word for this in English," he mused, still soft. "I can't recall it. I've made you a ... a fallen women. Yes?"
"Yes," I agreed, still smiling. "Thank you ever so much."
"It's been entirely my pleasure," he said in Romanian, and I turned my face into his sleeve and began to laugh. — Shana Abe