Mesa Selimovic Fortress Quotes & Sayings

Much insight into himself could have been gained from contemplation of these things, but Wintrow reined his mind away from it. Perhaps he did not want to know himself quite that well."
p. 543 — Robin Hobb

Dreams of innocence are just that; they usually depend on a denial of reality that can be its own form of hubris. — Michael Pollan

She was older, no longer the wicked limber girl with the stalled Vespa, but no less beautiful to me for that: whatever elliptical beauty Cassie possesses has always lain not in the vulnerable planes of color and texture but deeper, in the polished contours of her bones. — Tana French

If neither crying nor laughing can change my circumstances, then I rather go through them laughing. — Moffat Machingura

More trade with Qatar & emirates is good against terrorism. — Rudy Giuliani

If everything else were still the same, he'd have felt Zee's absence like a gaping hole. But if he could continue to reconfigure his entire life, there would be no missing place where Zee had been. — Rebecca Makkai

People think top singers are overpaid, but opera houses have a top fee, which is a good thing. Of course concerts are different- everyone wants to make as much money as possible. — Bryn Terfel

Most of this world's misery is the fruit not as priests tell us of wickedness, but of stupidity ...
And we know that of all stupidities he considered anger the most deplorable. — Rafael Sabatini

Most men are satisfied if they read or hear read, and perchance have been convicted by the wisdom of one good book, the Bible, and for the rest of their lives vegetate and dissipate their faculties in what is called easy reading. — Henry David Thoreau

My tenure at 'The Daily Show' started during the decade after September 11, and fear of Muslims was at an all-time high. Politicians and the media seemed to dial the fright, mistrust, and animosity up to a fever pitch to gain votes and ratings. — Aasif Mandvi

When sins are dear to us we are too prone to slide into them again. The act of repentance itself is often sweetened with the thought that it clears our account for a repetition of the same sin. — Thomas Jefferson