Kokhba Revolt Quotes & Sayings

It was really rather wretched that you couldn't will yourself to fall in love, for the very effort can keep falling at bay. Nor could you will yourself to stay that way. Least of all could you will yourself NOT to fall in love, for thus far whatever meager resistance she had put up had only made the compulsion more intense. So you were perpetually tyrannized by a feeling that came and went as it pleased, like a cat with its own pet door. How much more agreeable, if love were something that you stirred up from a reliable recipe, or elected, however perversely, to pour down the drain. Still, there was nothing for it. The popular expression notwithstanding, love was not something you made. Nor could you dispose of the stuff once manifested because it was inconvenient, or even because it was wicked, and ruining your life, and, by the by, someone else's. — Lionel Shriver

There was so much fear after 9/11, and that fear caused people to make the wrong decisions. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Public speaking? I speak to myself on the street! — Eliot Spitzer

I beg you both, take heart.'(Varys)
'Whose?' asked Tyrion sourly. He could think of several tempting choices. — George R R Martin

A predetermined destiny does not exist; when a man is born, his life is open to all the possibilities; in other words, potentially, man has infinitely different destinies! All destinies are his probable destiny! — Mehmet Murat Ildan