"The links between the American government and the Iraqi government are so close that you cannot judge one without asking at least the other what he has done by this time."

-- Jacques Verges

#Government Quotes #Judging Quotes #Asking Quotes

“We try to abolish intervals by our manic insistence on keeping busy, on doing something. And as a result, all we succeed in doing is destroying all hope of tranquility. ... . You have to learn to immerse yourself in the silences between.”
“A lot of people are very frustrated. On the outside I am a woman, but how much am I also a man inside? And how much is the man that I meet actually a woman inside? The transsexual is a symbol for the confusion all of us in the Western world feel about this right now.”
“Most attorneys practice law because it gives them a grand and glorious feeling. You give them a grand - and they feel glorious.”
“Is that too much to expect? That I would name the stars for you? That I would take you there? The splash of my tongue melting you like a sugar cube?”
“I came back out here from England and I was there for a while and it was beautiful and it is just great to see London going from Spring to Summer and Autumn.”
“The most powerful ties are the ones to the people who gave us birth ... it hardly seems to matter how many years have passed.”
“If someone had to lose weight, I would tell that person to lose weight. Lose some weight, why can't you take care of yourself. When I say this, the person might think, 'Look who's talking,' but I would reply, 'I'm a boy and you're a girl.'”
“turns me on so loud it's like no sound, everybody yelling at me hands over their ears from behind a glass wall, faces working around in talk circles but no sound from the mouths. my sound soaks up all other sound.”

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