"Although Damascus is considered the oldest city in the world, the date of its foundation going beyond tradition, there are very few relics of antiquity in or near it."

-- Bayard Taylor

#Cities Quotes #Foundation Quotes #World Quotes

“God gave me eyes so that I might see you, and God gave you eyes, so that I might see myself.”
“You're too young to decide to live forever.”
“Shaken and not stirred.”
“When you commit a serious doping offence you are not eligible for lottery funding.”

Source : "Korchemny in plea bargain" by Duncan Mackay, www.theguardian.com. July 28, 2005.
“This war differs from other wars, in this particular. We are not fighting armies but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war.”
“As a slave one cannot undertake obligations without the consent of one's master. As a citizen one cannot undertake obligations unless the legal system of the State in which one holds citizenship permits one to do so. Neither a slave nor a citizen is a free person, although those who are held as slaves or citizens may well be free persons: it is just that their freedom is not respected.”

Source : "The Perfect Law of Freedom". 2004.
“Whenever you're unhappy, your emotions are telling you that the people or things around you are not conforming to your vision of the world, or the way you think things should be.”
“I want Maggie Gyllenhaal. I don't know why. I don't think she necessarily looks like me or acts like me, I just think she's a cool actress and she could play me, so there you go.”

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