Ishaker Quotes & Sayings

The gateway to the underworld is seen as part antiquity and part theatre. Welcome to the lower depths. — Peter Ackroyd

Proof At Rhodes, at Cyprus, and on other grounds, Christian and heathen, - must be belee'd — William Shakespeare

History is written by the victors. — Walter Benjamin

No novel is anything, for the purposes either of comedy or tragedy, unless the reader can sympathise with the characters whose names he finds upon the pages. Let an author so tell his tale as to touch his reader's heart and draw his tears, and he has, so far, done his work well. Truth let there be, --truth of description, truth of character, human truth as to men and women. If there be such truth, I do not know that a novel can be too sensational. — Anthony Trollope

There's nothing funny about, 'Yeah, I took a First Class plane ticket and I went to some designer beach and made out with a Laotian slave girl.' Who cares? — Henry Rollins

I think the opera is one of the great cultural jewels of Los Angeles. — Eli Broad

It was important to one's confidence, she'd found of late, to wear something one loved when facing a difficult task. — Manda Collins

Just saying an intention and leaving it at that will not necessarily result in an outcome, if there is a stronger, more primal belief behind the scenes. — Miranda J. Barrett

We succeeded to take our last steps to freedom in conditions of relative peace. We commit ourselves to the construction of a complete, just and lasting peace. We have triumphed in the effort to implant hope in the breasts of the millions of our people. — Nelson Mandela

That's the problem, we do get used to things. — Paulo Coelho

When we say we love somebody, what do we mean? We mean we possess that person. From that possession arises jealousy, because if I lose him or her what happens? I feel empty, lost; therefore I legalize possession; I hold him or her. From holding, possessing that person, there is jealousy, there is fear, and all the innumerable conflicts that arise from possession. Surely such possession is not love, is it? — Jiddu Krishnamurti

I thought Gen. McChrystal was unfireable, that his position was secure. — Michael Hastings

It is now an accepted fact that the expression of emotion through painting ... is a source of deep psychological satisfaction ... It is a system which can also in some measure, even compensate for the lack of emotional fulfilment in human relationships ... — Mervyn Levy

Either he was a perv or an alien. Or both, which would be a winning combination. — Jennifer L. Armentrout