Getahun Getachew Quotes & Sayings

For it is a peculiarity of persons who lead rich, emotional lives, and who (as the saying is) live intensely and with a wild poetry, that they read all kind of meanings into comparatively simple actions, especially the actions of other people who do not live intensely and with a wild poetry. Thus you may find them weeping passionately on their bed, and be told that you - you alone - are the cause because you said that awful thing to them at lunch. Or they wonder why you like going to concerts; there must be more to it than meets the eye. — Stella Gibbons

Hell is the inability to love. — Leo Tolstoy

Working in films, there are hundreds of odd moments. — Helen McCrory

The U.S. will never be a free and happy nation while they continue to exploit and marginalize the Third World. The Third World will never be happy or free so long as there is a First World stuck in the mire of consumerism, alienation, indifference. (Clodovis Boff, p. 161) — Mev Puleo

Stretched to the breaking point by all that now stood between them, but at the same time refusing to break. — Jhumpa Lahiri

I always think there are people looking not so much for information as for reassurance and reaffirmation of their views. — Tom Brokaw

There are places in the heart that do not yet exist; suffering has to enter in for them to come to be. — Leon Bloy