Nistria Quotes & Sayings

I am in the interesting position of being sometimes skimmed by the critics and called literature and sometimes called historical fiction. — Philippa Gregory

A river goes wherever the riverbank does. It never had to ask which way, but only flows along. Yes? — Gavriel Savit

In studying the psychological significance of a religious or political doctrine, we must first bear in mind that the psychological analysis does not imply a judgement concerning the truth of the doctrine one analyzes. This latter question can be decided only in terms of the logical structure of the problem itself. — Erich Fromm

I don't wish to be a slave any longer to the stringent exigencies of literature. — Philip Roth

Do you, good people, believe that Adam and Eve were created in the Garden of Eden and that they were forbidden to eat from the tree of knowledge? I do. The church has always been afraid of that tree. It still is afraid of knowledge. Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas. So does whiskey. I believe in the brain of man. — Clarence Darrow

I am a story-teller working with a craft. My job is to use my craft - which is a different thing to my race - and tell a story well. — Gavin Hood

Friendship is also a vital and wonderful part of courtship and marriage. A relationship between a man and a woman that begins with friendship and then ripens into romance and eventually marriage will usually become an enduring, eternal friendship. — Marlin K. Jensen

I mean, how strange is that we bring plant sex organs to people we're attracted to? What's up with that? It's a weird sign of affection. — Richelle Mead

It has often been said that during the period of liberal Protestantism, when innumerable "lives of Jesus" were written, designed to help educated middle-class Europeans and Americans to respond to the gospel, the portraits that resulted were very obviously self-portraits. They told you more about the writer than about Jesus. — Lesslie Newbigin

I have no fear of death, except I hate waiting for it. — Doug Stanhope

I was a westerner in Iran, an Iranian in the West. I had no identity. I didn't even know anymore why I was living. — Marjane Satrapi