Solemnised Quotes & Sayings

Just after the 11 September 2001 attacks, the Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk (who later won the Nobel Prize) observed, in Istanbul, the ordinary and peaceable inhabitants of the city displaying great joy at the collapse of the Twin Towers. What was the explanation? 'It is neither Islam nor even poverty itself that directly engenders support for terrorists whose ferocity and ingenuity are unprecedented in human history; it is, rather, the crushing humiliation that has infected the third-world countries. — Tzvetan Todorov

The oceans are full of surprises! — Louis P Kicha

The only thing we are sure to fail is that which we do not attempt — Paul-Emile Victor

You may not plan for some things in life but your destiny will take you there. — Rita Zahara

I have a kind soul that would give you thanks. And knows not how to do it but with tears. — William Shakespeare

He who looks for advantage out of friendship strips it all of its nobility. — Seneca The Elder

My main graduate training was received at the University of Chicago from which I received the Ph.D. in 1938. — George Stigler

Great art likes chains. The greatest artists have created art within bounds. Or else they have created their own chains. — Nadia Boulanger

Women always worry about things that men forget; men always worry about things women remember. — Albert Einstein

Order to truly forgive oneself, one must either explicitly or implicitly acknowledge that one's behavior was wrong and accept responsibility or blame for such behavior. — Desmond Tutu

When something's good, I'm not an over-celebrator. — Dane Cook