Nooteboom Scania Quotes & Sayings

And to all of you, what it really comes down to is: If you're buying a book with my name on it, I feel I owe it to you to have it be the best book that I can make it. — Peter David

Fame is an unnatural construct and those who go in search of it are the least likely to find it. — Ryan Adams

Life is a service. What you will do lies in your soul. — Lailah Gifty Akita

We moved wordlessly from one room to another, from the room of the dead to the room where time lay in pages everywhere I looked. — Susan Meissner

Her name was called Lady Helena Herring and her age was 25 and she mated well with the earl. — Daisy Ashford

So maybe Third World discontent is fomented not merely by poverty, disease, corruption and political oppression but also by mere exposure to First World standards. The average Egyptian was far less likely to die from starvation, plague or violence under Hosni Mubarak than under Ramses II or Cleopatra. Never had the material condition of most Egyptians been so good. You'd think they would have been dancing in the streets in 2011, thanking Allah for their good fortune. Instead they rose up furiously to overthrow Mubarak. They weren't comparing themselves to their ancestors under the pharaohs, but rather to their contemporaries in the affluent West. — Yuval Noah Harari

That switch is responsibility. And it will change your life. — Joelle Casteix