Ghurka Shorts Quotes & Sayings

In Russia whenever you encounter a minor official, he lets you know that he is above you and that you depend on him. It is reflected in the superpower mentality that nourishes the Kremlin. An empire always demands sacrifices from its people. — Vladimir Sorokin

Freud said that everything was secretly sexual. But etymologists know that sex is secretly food. — Mark Forsyth

The whole world is a scab. The point is to pick it constructively. — Peter Beard

I love you," he said, and though she knew it was true she kept her eyes closed and said, "Don't say that." She did not want to allow that love could be so fearful and meager and misshapen. He left, and she did not try to stop him. She was through trying to stop him. She had been trying to stop him since the day they met. — Claire Vaye Watkins

I was starting to feel that Washington was a city run by two rival gangs that had a great deal in common with each other, including an essential lack of interest in the well-being of the turf on which they fought. — Peggy Noonan

We do everything we can to protect the people we love, whatever it takes, and it's not enough. Unlike bone, once that illusionary magic circle is broken, it can never be completely repaired, and it is not stronger at the break. — Craig Johnson

Karen sighed. "I know. I could never fall for the easy guys either." She looked at Clare. "It's always the difficult ones that get under your skin, isn't it? — Julia Spencer-Fleming

People just deserve to be treated with kindness. — Sophia Bush

Caution! Be very careful of false, meaningless, self-contradictory, and not even very funny warnings, like this one. — Ashleigh Brilliant

No one was enchanted beyond saving in the songs. The hero always saved them. There was no ugly moment in a dark cellar where the countess wept and cried out protest while three wizards put the count to death, and then made court politics out of it. — Naomi Novik

You know you're in a tough place in your life when you decide now's a good time to start Moby Dick. — Ben Monopoli

[The Christmas story] is as simple as was the Man himself and His teaching. SA simple as the Sermon on the Mount which still remains as the ultimate basis ... of the belief of free men of good will everywhere. — Hal Borland

Sometimes we set off down a road thinkin' we're goin' one place and we end up another. But that's okay. The important thing is to start. — Ruta Sepetys