Lemento Quotes & Sayings

Because even after fifty-six years of independent sovereignty, still the earth trembles beneath Israel's feet. Israel has not yet managed to establish among its citizens the sense that this place is their home. They may feel that Israel is their fortress, but still not truly their home. — David Grossman

We can't search or attain well being, wealth, studying, justice or kindness usually. Action is all the time particular, concrete, individualized, distinctive. — Benjamin Jowett

She's so weird. I shrugged. Maybe she was weird, or maybe the rest of us were weird. — John Green

Rigorous authority and justice are the kindness of kings. — Napoleon Bonaparte

I wanted to be the kind of teacher who learned from her students. — Miranda July

I get to hang out with people I think are awesome, and do work I think is awesome. It's really cool. — Harold Perrineau

Mr. Vandemar showed them his teeth, demonstrating his sunny and delightful disposition. It was unquestionably the most horrible thing Richard had ever seen. — Neil Gaiman

We must pronounce him fortunate who has ended his life in fair prosperity. — Aeschylus

For all their current prestige, Osama bin Laden and the suicide bombers are still regarded in all but the most desperate districts of Gaza or Peshawar as romantics with little chance of more than symbolic victories, however bloody and brutal. That gives both the Middle East and the West a small and distant hope of security. — James Buchan

It is very difficult for people to come in contact with their own emotions and their own sensibilities. — Peter Davison

Do not the bewitching power of all studies lie in that they continually open up to us new, unsuspected horizons, not yet understood, which entice us to proceed further and further in the penetration of what appears at first sight only in vague outline? — Pyotr Kropotkin

I walked past her, thinking: Is this what happens to the youth of women? Those whom we have met in the past, if suddenly we desire to see them again, have they become old? Is the young woman whom we desire like a character on the stage, when, unable to secure the actress who created the part, the management is obliged to entrust it to a new star? But then it is no longer the same. — Marcel Proust

Suicide is a serious thing. And if you know anyone who is suicidal, you need to get them help. No one should be in pain. Everyone should love themselves. Like I love you all. — Gerard Way

I get nervous when I fly; I'm used to walking with my feet. — Jack Johnson