"I've read that if an avalanche buries you and you're lying there underneath all that snow, you can't tell which way is up or down. You want to dig yourself out but pick the wrong way, and you dig yourself to your own demise."

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Source : Khaled Hosseini (2013). “And the Mountains Echoed”, p.214, A&C Black

Khaled Hosseini

#Lying Quotes #Snow Quotes #Demise Quotes

“I am William Wallace... And the rest of you will be spared. Go back to England and tell them there that Scotland's daughters and her sons are yours no more! Tell them Scotland is free!”
“There are two sorts of curiosity - the momentary and the permanent. The momentary is concerned with the odd appearance on the surface of things. The permanent is attracted by the amazing and consecutive life that flows on beneath the surface of things.”
“The Pentagon said that these prisoners were kept in accordance with the Geneva Convention, and of course I was not reassured by that, but I couldn't prove that that was wrong; so we're clearer about that.”
“When they are among us cats are angels”
“If you subscribe to the idea that #â€Ž addiction is a disease, it is startling to see how many of these children - paranoid, anxious, bruised, tremulous, withered, in some cases psychotic - are seriously ill, slowly dying. We'd never allow such a scene if these kids had any other disease. They would be in a hospital, not on the streets.”

Source : David Sheff (2009). “Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction”, p.142, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“The two most powerful nations of the world had been squared off against each other, each with its finger on the button. You'd have thought that war was inevitable. But both sides showed that if the desire to avoid war is strong enough, even the most pressing dispute can be solved by compromise. And a compromise over Cuba was indeed found.”
“Norway is a small country, about half the size of Sweden, but it has a very good film climate because they have municipal cinemas, so even in the smallest towns you have a cinema that shows art house films from all over the world.”

Source : "'King of Devil's Island': Stellan Skarsgård mentors" by G. Allen Johnson, www.sfgate.com. January 05, 2012.
“While only one day of the year is dedicated solely to honoring our veterans, Americans must never forget the sacrifices that many of our fellow countrymen have made to defend our country and protect our freedoms.”

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