Shamloul Quotes & Sayings

It is the question that is also asked by modern political theory: Can politics accept truth as a structural category? Or must truth, as something unattainable, be relegated to the subjective sphere, its place taken by an attempt to build peace and justice using whatever instruments are available to power? By relying on truth, does not politics, in view of the impossibility of attaining consensus on truth, make itself a tool of particular traditions that in reality are merely forms of holding on to power?
And yet, on the other hand, what happens when truth counts for nothing? What kind of justice is then possible? Must there not be common criteria that guarantee real justice for all - criteria that are independent of the arbitrariness of changing opinions and powerful lobbies? Is it not true that the great dictatorships were fed by the power of the ideological lie and that only truth was capable of bringing freedom? — Pope Benedict XVI

It's attention to detail that makes the difference between average and stunning, — Francis Atterbury

For instance, the near enemy of love is attachment. It masquerades as love, it feels like love, but it is essentially different. — Jack Kornfield

The first time Akash took Supriya to view the pool, I rose up in strident protest, and he was astonished by the way she turned her face away, her eyes filled with terror. "I am petrified of water!" she whispered, as he tried to cajole her to at least put her feet in. — Deepti Menon

Pheromones are Earth's primordial idiom. — Karen Joy Fowler

Inspiration quite frequently arrives as a surprise. The key is being open to it. — Tori Amos

Sometimes I finish a movie, and I get used to a certain lifestyle, and when that stops, I get a bit lost for about a week. 'No one is bringing me lunch anymore - I've got to go do that myself?' I lose the main point of my focus. — Gerard Butler

Well, it's true that I've never been solitary, although I spend a lot of time alone. I've never felt lonely or been shy. — Richard E. Grant

Learn from the greats, and expose yourself to better work. — Sara Genn

A lively and agreeable man has not only the merit of liveliness and agreeableness himself, but that also of awakening them in others. — Sir Fulke Greville

I love you, Callie. The war is over, but" - He smiled, a crooked, rueful, tender smile - "my life is just beginning," he told her. — Heather Graham

Carrie Bradshaw fell in Dior, I fell in Debenhams. It was May 2008, and it was spectacular. Uncomfortable heels + slippy floor + head turned by a cocktail dress = thwack. Arms stretched overhead, teeth cracking on floor tiles, chest and knees breaking the fall. It was theatrical, exaggerated, a perfect 6.0. And it was Significant Moment #1 in discovering that I had grade-three breast cancer. — Lisa Lynch

Many people are in the dark when it comes to money, and I'm going to turn on the lights. — Suze Orman