Levantine People Quotes & Sayings

It's easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless. — Erica Jong

Money is the source of the greatest vice, and that nation which is most rich, is most wicked. — Fanny Burney

Never see them again. Surely, a couple so young, so — Philippa Gregory

If you're feeling insecure and you need to feel special, the best place to go is somewhere foreign where people treat you as special because you're different. — Kristin Scott Thomas

There are so many of these young-adult movies with these cold guys who act like jerks to girls but are hiding soft sentiments. But in the real world most guys who act like jerks are jerks. Generally they are. I spent a lot of high school thinking that horrible guys must be very sensitive and interesting and it's not true. — Alice Englert

At its best, travel should challenge our preconceptions and most cherished views, cause us to rethink our assumptions, shake us a bit, make us broader minded and more understanding. — Arthur Frommer

She liked the life she had. She loved habits. She craved a day with nothing in it, a long, quiet stretch of hours in the studio. — Ann Brashares

Let people say whatever they like, stick to your own convictions, and rest assured, the world will be at your feet. They say, "Have faith in this fellow or that fellow", but I say, "Have faith in yourself first", that's the way. Have faith in yourself-all power is in you-be conscious and bring it out. Say, "I can do everything." — Swami Vivekananda

For more than a millennium the eastern Mediterranean seaboard called Syria Libanensis, or Mount Lebanon, had been able to accommodate at least a dozen different sects, ethnicities, and beliefs - it worked like magic. The place resembled major cities of the eastern Mediterranean (called the Levant) more than it did the other parts in the interior of the Near East (it was easier to move by ship than by land through the mountainous terrain). The Levantine cities were mercantile in nature; people dealt with one another according to a clear protocol, preserving a peace conducive to commerce, and they socialized quite a bit across communities. This millennium of peace was interrupted only by small occasional friction within Moslem and Christian communities, rarely between Christians and Moslems. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

This photographic thing has changed the entire vision of the world. It will go through every activity of humanity - science, medicine, space, ESP, for peace, against peace, entertainment, television, movies, all of them - you will not find one without photography. — Lisette Model

I am who I am. In the end, I feel that what I'm accountable for is doing a good job as a football coach. — Bill Belichick

I'm sorry I didn't know it was an elephant; I thought it was part of the furniture! — Stephen King

I am moonlighting for the Buddha. — John Burdett

I've never modeled myself on anybody, but there are a lot of people whose work I really admire and attitudes I certainly subscribe to. — Tim Curry