"I have always wanted to make a film about my parents' generation, which tried every way to escape from the deadly shadow of war and finally settled down in Hong Kong in the '50s to build a home from nothing. Arguably, they are the first generation of Hong Kong people to turn this remote island into a modern city."

-- Mabel Cheung

#War Quotes #Home Quotes #Islands Quotes

“I'm very accessible. I don't get into this ego thing.”
“The Christian life is a thank-you from beginning to end as we ponder what God has done. What an absurdity to think that we could ever bargain with God, as if there were anything we could put on the table. Nothing we can do would ever earn his favor. Yet all is ours for free. And the cross reveals his willingness to forgive not just once, but over and over and over again. How can we repay such extravagant, generous love? We cannot and need not, and the heart's only answer is gratitude.”
“We hear warmongering every day, every day we hear threats and attempts to scare us... We don't want war and never wanted, but at that time [i.e. during Nagorno-Karabakh war] we had to defend our Motherland. If the time comes again, this time our blow will be final and deadly.”

Source : President Serzh Sargsyan speaks after the military exercises, www.president.am. November 13, 2010.
“We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the US public believes is false.”
“A quiet mind does not mean that there will be no thoughts or mental movements at all, but that these will be on the surface, and you will feel your true being within, separate from them, observing but not carried away”

Source : Sri Aurobindo (2016). “‌‌Bases of Yoga: Art of living”, p.3, editionNEXT.com
“Art is a person's private vision expressed in aesthetic forms.”

Source : Chaim Potok (2009). “My Name Is Asher Lev”, p.316, Anchor
“I do as much comedy as I possibly can but Iâ€™m basically limited by the imagination of the secretaries who make the decisions,”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Make the present good, and the past will take care of itself.”

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