Tigana Summary Quotes & Sayings

This is said to civilized men who are to venture into countries where sacred cows are fed, while children are left to starve - where female infants are killed or abandoned by the roadside- where men go blind, medical help being forbidden by their religion - where women are mutilated, to insure their fidelity - where unspeakable tortures are ceremonially inflicted on prisoners - where cannibalism is practiced.
Are these the 'cultural riches' which a Western man is to greet with 'brotherly love'? Are these the 'valuable elements' which he is to admire and adopt? Are these the 'fields' in which he is not to regard himself as superior? And when he discovers entire populations rotting alive in such conditions, is he not to acknowledge, with a burning stab of pride - of pride and gratitude - the achievements of his nation and his culture, of the men who created them and left him a nobler heritage to carry forward? — Ayn Rand

I can't imagine loving her any more than I do right now, but I know I will. Because every second I'm with her, I fall harder. — J. Daniels

The great unseen reality is God — A.W. Tozer

Our choice is between cynicism and hope. — Jim Wallis

Yet by such worthless beings is a great nation to be governed and even made to deify their old king because he is only a fool and a maniac, and to forgive and forget his having lost to them a great and flourishing empire. — Thomas Jefferson

And from the coffin of your madness there is no escape. — Angela Carter

You know when you take the paint off an old canvas and you discover that something's been painted underneath it? That's what I feel like - that part of the old is coming through the new. — Carly Simon

Now as before, women must refuse to be meek and guileful, for truth cannot be served by dissimulation. Women who fancy that they manipulate the world by pussy power and gentle cajolery are fools. It is slavery to have to adopt such tactics. — Germaine Greer

One of the things I love most about acting, that I get to do research and read books, but it's just for me and I don't have to write about it. — Ruby Bentall

The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows. — Aristotle Onassis

He had a particular pride in the phrase eminently practical, which was considered to have a special application to him. — Charles Dickens

If we didn't execute bankers and rogue traders found guilty of financial mischief, it might give them the clear signal that it's actually okay, and then where would we be? — Jasper Fforde

Beautiful girls. They only want to do you dirt. They'll have you suicidal, suicidal when they say it's over. — Sean Kingston