"People never know how strong is their lust for being cheated."

“Cecilia wondered, as she sometimes did when she met a man for the first time, if this was the one she was going to marry, and whether it was this particular moment she would remember for the rest of her life - with gratitude, or profound and particular regret.”

“As I "won," I didn't feel the fruits of that. I felt the fruits when I served others, when I gave myself away. . . . I've always seen my life as an experiment. I just want to go to what works. As I felt the charity aspect in my life, the giving aspect, I felt a power and I've walked more into that.”

“I came from Egypt and I owe Egypt a lot to what I am now.”

Source : Source: www.nobelprize.org

“It is through the multitudinous mass of living human hearts, of human acts and words of love and truth, that the Christ of the first century has become the Christ of the nineteenth.”

Source : Arthur Penrhyn Stanley (1872). “The National Thanksgiving: Sermons Preached in Westminster Abbey: 1. Death and Life, December 10,1871; 2. The Trumpet of Patmos, December 17, 1871; 3. The Day of Thanksgiving, March 3, 1872”, p.15

“Possibilities swung from the ropes of his life like charms on a watch chain, golden.”

Source : Susan Moody (1992). “Mosaic”, G K Hall & Company

“When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes.”

“The world is more outlandish than some people’s imaginations.”

Source : Niall Williams (2014). “History of the Rain: Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014”, p.6, A&C Black

“Herzog and Malick both have this very unique naturalist intentionality to their process. It's about creating the mood, creating the focus and having discipline, but not prescribing what the performance was supposed to be. Neither of them are really directing their actors into a performance.”