Ohanesian Ohanesian Quotes & Sayings

There's only about about 6 to 8 inches between an open book and a human being's heart. A lot can happen in those 7 inches. Perspectives, fresh perspectives occur and minds expand, and I love fiction and I feel like it's a possibility for transformation. — Aline Ohanesian

Time and progress are two long-lost relatives who send an occasional letter. — Aline Ohanesian

There's no bad consequence to loving fully, with all your heart. You always gain by giving love. — Reese Witherspoon

Orhan fixates on the word genocide. Massacres abound in his country's history, as they do in any nation's history. But genocide is a different accusation altogether. Why do they insist on using that word? — Aline Ohanesian

Silence is the enemy of justice. — Aline Ohanesian

if you paid enough attention to your past, it would grow and grow, obscure your present as well as your future. — Aline Ohanesian

art is always intense when it's transformative. — Aline Ohanesian

Ms. Ginsberg. I wonder if you can help me. I have a legal question," Felicity Mason said. Great. I hated giving out free legal advice at parties, but at that moment, I would have drafted her will in crayon on a cocktail napkin to get away from Cole. — N.M. Silber

It is not given to everyone to shine in adversity. — Jane Aiken Hodge

Everything we do is political," she says. "Even the things we choose not to do. — Aline Ohanesian

All of life, Orhan realizes, is a story within a story; how we choose to listen and which words we choose to speak makes all the difference. — Aline Ohanesian

His parents survived the Holocaust. He understand us," she told Bedros.
"He understand nothing," Bedros had shouted. "He shares his horror with the world, and the world gasps and apologizes. And what about us?" Bedros was right. The Armenians bore their loss alone. — Aline Ohanesian

This busyness was not about money--despite the chic catalogs piled on the kitchen table. It was only marginally about good-heartedness or politics. I was a woman disconnecting from my moments alone, when the world seemed to shatter into terror, into madness coming toward me at the speed of loss. The moment for which--I could not have guessed--my spirit and writing longed. — Mary Sojourner

I find it a huge strain to be responsible for my tastes and be known and defined by them. — Jonathan Franzen

There, in the spaces between darkness and light, a sadness hangs in the air, invisible to the human eye yet heavy on the heart. — Aline Ohanesian

The notion that Nature does not proceed by jumps is only one of the budget of plausible lies that we call classical education. Nature always proceeds by jumps. She may spend twenty thousand years making up her mind to jump; but when she makes it up at last, the jump is big enough to take us into a new age. — George Bernard Shaw

I have an older sister who sounds, unfortunately, exactly like me, and we sound like our mother did. — Jill Abramson

Where is your Christian god now?" the turbaned assassin shouts. Lucine thinks it is a good question. Not one person answers him. Not Mairig and not the missionary. Perhaps they sense what Lucine already knows, that if God is indeed anywhere, he is not here. — Aline Ohanesian

We are all sorry for something. It's what makes us human, says Seda. But sometimes empathy is not enough. Sometimes empathy needs to be followed by action. — Aline Ohanesian

It is the first time she has witnessed a murder. — Aline Ohanesian

And I'm not ashamed or regretful. I spent my days loving those who mattered to me. What else is there in life? — Aline Ohanesian

Life is not THAT serious..let's take humor more seriously ! — Andrew Matthews

It's not fair that there aren't very many juicy or varied roles for women. — Rosanna Arquette

Tact, the kind of tact you should cultivate, is not a form of deception or make-believe, but a cultivated taste which gives fine perception in seeing and doing what is best under all circumstances. There is nothing which will so readily bring you into favor, or disarm an opponent, as the right use of tact. — Grenville Kleiser