Skardu In Winter Quotes & Sayings

Look out for Number One. If you don't, no one else will. — Arnold Rothstein

Before our "company" set off, at a wink from the officer, Plumpie stood up and proposed a search. I could see that some of the others thought she was wasting our time, but our company commander cheerfully seconded her proposal. He suggested we search him first. A boy was called to do this, and found a big bunch of keys on him. Our commander acted as though he had been genuinely careless, and gave Plumpie a victorious smile. The rest of us searched each other. This roundabout way of doing things reflected a Maoist practice: things had to look as though they were the wish of the people, rather than commands from above. Hypocrisy and playacting were taken for granted. — Jung Chang

Have you never heard what the wise man say : all of the future exists in the past. — Truman Capote

The Carter Center has the only existing international taskforce on disease eradication. Which means a total elimination of a disease on the face of the Earth. In the history of the world, there's only been one disease eradicated: smallpox. The second disease, I think, is gonna be guinea worm. — Jimmy Carter

For every departed glory there is always a new discovery — Sunday Adelaja

You gotta give a woman a reason to go along - a good reason. It's gotta have appeal, and it can't be just a romp in the sack. That might be the end game but you gotta dress it up. — Jack Dancer

I realize in this moment that all my life I've felt that I deserve to be punished, for wanting so much, for taking so much from this world, from the people who love me. — Claire Bidwell Smith

Rahel's "list" was an attempt to order chaos. She revised it constantly, torn forever between love and duty. It was by no means a true gauge of her feelings. — Arundhati Roy

The aging process is fascinating because it doesn't disturb me, because this is what it is supposed to be like. But I'll tell you what does - it's the lack of strength - you can't hold up suitcases and do it yourself. Loss of physical strength. — Anita Roddick

Did anybody ever tell you that you weren't normal?
Is that something I should aspire to? — Benjamin Alire Saenz

What would be your first thought if you woke up naked, next to me in bed?"
"Huh ... it's kind of warm considering hell has just frozen over — R.S. Burnett

Exhibitionists have no friends, no friends at all. — Quentin Crisp

Faith is obscure. By faith a man moves through darkness; but he moves securely, his hand in the hand of God. He is literally seeing through the eyes of God. — Walter Farrell