Kadesh Quotes & Sayings

Being with her always felt like gazing the stars and into the infinity, reading a book which never ends. She had no boundaries, all she knew was to shine, and live without any walls around her on every page. — Akshay Vasu

They say they seek security and quiet, the condition they call peace. Even as they speak they create the seeds of turmoil and violence. — Frank Herbert

In 1990 I did a story with Helena Christensen about a woman who lives in a trailer in the middle of the desert and finds a little crushed UFO with a martian who has survived the crash. She takes him home, and they fall in love. Later he has to meet with his fellow martians who have arrived to rescue him. It's a sad ending. This was my first truly narrative story and apparently the first narrative story in fashion photography. — Peter Lindbergh

And there's a visceral fun in watching Team America and making it, like taking a puppet and throwing it against the wall. Because it's not CG, there's something funny about it. — Matt Stone

If you give up at the first sign of struggle, you're really not ready to be successful. — Kevin Hart

You do not really wish to hear more of the Battle of Kadesh. Let me say only that human fat, gorged in considerable quantity, has an intoxicating effect. I became ... drunk. — Norman Mailer

I used to be shy about ordering a steak after I had eaten a steak sandwich, but I got used to it. — A.J. Liebling

Lincoln told a family friend that his father taught him to work, but never learned him to love it. — Richard Brookhiser

There are so many things to say; so many things that can't really be said.
So much has happened; so little has changed.
We have so many words prepared; so many words are too hard to actually say.
A few days have passed; this pain has been here for years.
We don't know where to go from here; our future has always been in our minds.
Moments of peace with those who constantly argue; fights with those that usually bring peace.
There are so many things to say; so many things that can't really be said. — Alysha Speer

I always tell myself, 'Keep on fighting.' I wasn't always a good diver - I had to work my way up to where I am now. If I had given up, I wouldn't be in the position I am today. I would have so many regrets. — Christina Loukas

Tilda cared nothing for the future, and had, as a result, a great capacity for happiness. — Penelope Fitzgerald

Treaty of Kadesh, which is basically the first peace treaty in history. — Adam Brown

Heroines in dramas, Bridget felt, really ought to have more sense. — Jim Butcher

RAMESSES II is one of the most well-known and widely written-about kings of ancient Egypt. A copy of his Treaty of Kadesh, written in cuneiform and discovered in the village of Hattusas, hangs in the United Nations building in New York as the world's earliest example of an international peace treaty. It is also believed that Ramesses is the Pharaoh responsible — Michelle Moran

Whatever happens around you, don't take it personally ... Nothing other people do is because of you. It is because of themselves. — Miguel Ruiz

We aren't a drop in the ocean, but are the ocean, in drops. — Anne Lamott

A general is a specialist insofar as he has master his craft. Beyond that and outside the arbitrary pro and con, he keeps a third possibility intact and in reserve: his own substance. He knows more than what he embodies and teaches, has other skills along with the ones for which he is paid. He keeps all that to himself; it is his property. It is set aside for his leisure, his soliloquies, his nights. At a propitious moment, he will put it into action, tear off his mask. So far, he has been racing well; within sight is the finish line, his final reserves start pouring in. Fate challenges him; he responds. The dream, even in an erotic encounter, comes true. But causally, even here; every goal is a transition for him. The bow should snap rather than aiming the arrow at a finite target. — Ernst Junger