Youcef Belaili Quotes & Sayings

I don't concentrate on any one period of history; I like to locate my stories in wildly different eras and places. I seem to be drawn to large, sprawling, uncomfortable swaths of American history, finding embedded within them a tight narrative that involves strife, heroism, and survival under difficult circumstances. — Hampton Sides

For years and years, I convinced myself that I was unbreakable, an animal with an animal strength or something not human at all. Me, I told people, I take damage like a wall, a brick wall that never falls down, never feels anything, never flinches or remembers. I am one woman but I carry in my body all the stories I have ever been told, women I have known, women who have taken damage until they tell themselves they can feel no pain at all. — Dorothy Allison

Every day I think about where I come from and I am still proud to be who I am: first, a Kabyle from La Castellane, then an Algerian from Marseille, and then a Frenchman. — Zinedine Zidane

And to write is to sow and to reap at the same time. — Elie Wiesel

The first time I saw a picture of Elvis - I was in a state of shock, because I couldn't believe that a human being could be so beautiful. — Gottfried Helnwein

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility. — Charles Caleb Colton

I'm so hard right now my dick can cut diamonds.
- Andrew Parrish — J.A. Redmerski

Reality is the beginning not the end,
Naked Alpha, not the hierophant Omega,
Of dense investiture, with luminous vassals. — Wallace Stevens

Everyone's afraid of everybody else ... maybe because we're all afraid of ourselves. — Ellen Hopkins

Energy can be created and destroyed. And God is energy. — John L. Steadman