Mkhairi Quotes & Sayings

Do you consider shoes unhealthy? he asked, surveying the socks with respectful interest — Louisa May Alcott

In the November 1940 week of nightmares, when mighty German planes bombed London, British bombers retaliated by attacking Berlin, where the Soviet foreign minister, Molotov, was pressing Hitler for an answer to just exactly when German forces would invade the British Isles.

We had heard of the conference beforehand,' Churchill told Parliament, ' and, although not invited to join in the discussion, did not wish to be entirely left out of the proceedings. — William Stevenson

The perpetual charm of Arabia is that the traveler finds his level there simply as a human being; the people's directness, deadly to the sentimental or pedantic, likes the less complicated virtues ... — Freya Stark

Clouds overlaid the sky as with a shroud of mist, and everything looked sad, rainy, and threatening under a fine drizzle which was beating against the window-panes, and streaking their dull, dark surfaces with runlets of cold, dirty moisture. Only a scanty modicum of daylight entered to war with the trembling rays of the ikon lamp. The dying man threw me a wistful look, and nodded. The next moment he had passed away. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Fine conduct is always spontaneous. — Seneca The Younger

If you don't have confidence in the diagnosis, you won't have confidence in the prescription. — Stephen Covey

Enchantment is the means through which we may gain access to sacredness. Entertainment is the means through which we distance ourselves from it. — Neil Postman

Who dares not speak his free thought is a slave. — Euripides