Haidari Concentration Quotes & Sayings

Being surrounded with every conceivable kind of revolt from infancy, Gabriel had to revolt into something, so he revolted into the only thing left - sanity. But there was just enough in him of the blood of these fanatics to make even his protest for common sense a little too fierce to be sensible. — G.K. Chesterton

Always look on the bright side. And if there is no bright side?
Look away. — Joanne M. Harris

How gracious those dews of solace that over my senses fall At the clink of the ice in the pitcher the boy brings up the hall. — Eugene Field

A baby is a very heavy thing, any mother will tell you. — George Ella Lyon

Action and feeling go together, and by regulating the action ... we can directly regulate the feeling. — William James

The snow on the distant mountains was soft and creamy, as if veiled in a faint smoke. — Yasunari Kawabata

God says to man: 'Be thou thyself, and I shall be thine.' — Nicholas Of Cusa

Writing a story is pretty all-consuming for me - it feels a lot like method acting, and for the eight or twelve or fifteen months that I'm working on a story, I'm constantly thinking about how my narrator would react to whatever tangled situation I'm in. — Molly Antopol

Some people say that in stressful situations I can seem unflappable, and I think that's partly because I'm always kind of internally flapped. — Scott Stossel

Sometimes when you take strong stands, if you're not called to do it, you're dividing the audience you're trying to reach. — Joel Osteen

He contrasts it with eloquence. And what a noble gift it is, the power of playing upon the souls and wills of men, and rousing them to lofty purposes and holy deeds! Paul says, "If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, I am become sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal." We all know why. We have all felt the brazenness of words without emotion, the hollowness, the unaccountable unpersuasiveness, of eloquence behind which lies no Love. — Henry Drummond

See, the 'On the Road' that came out in 1957 was censored. A lot of the honesty of it, the bitter honesty, is in the original scroll version that came out in 2007 on the 50-year anniversary. Back then, there was so much post-Second World War fear that was imposed on everybody - 'You must live life this way' - and these guys were bored. — Garrett Hedlund

I like things to happen, and if they don't happen I like to make them happen. — Winston Churchill

When we forgive someone, we don't pretend that the harm didn't happen or cause us pain. We see it clearly for what it was, but we also come to see that fixating on the memory of harm generates anger and sadness. — Sharon Salzberg

Physical beauty should have no importance in a lasting relationship. — Julie Garwood