"I'm homesick. But I cannot go back to Syria. I lost everything. And I'm against the Syrian regime, so there is no way to go back. I'm really homesick."

-- Osama Alomar

#Homesick Quotes #Syria Quotes

“...for chess, that superb, cold, infinitely satisfying anodyne to life, I feel the ardour of a lover, the humility of a disciple.”
“I've nothing against anyone following their dreams - but not if they're crap.”

Source : "No pain no fame" by Caroline Sullivan, www.theguardian.com. November 14, 2002.
“Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.”

Source : "Understanding Cultural Diversity in Today's Complex World". Book by Leo Parvis, p. 54, 2010.
“I was never a big fashion person, and so I'm sure I wore whatever. I was growing, and so I just wore whatever clothes that weren't that expensive and made sense at the time. But I'm sure that I look back and say, 'What was I thinking?' My adolescence was more in the '80s, and that's more my cross to bear.”
“The energies of Lagos life- creative, malevolent, ambiguous- converge at the bus stops”
“I feel like there are messages. I feel like there are angels. I feel that there is a legacy and an energy. And I feel that it's possible to tap into that.”

Source : "At 60, 'Challenges Are Opportunities' For John Zorn". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 3, 2013.
“Some people in the utility industry have called it 'circling the drain'”
“There was a time when I liked a good riot. Put on some heavy old street clothes that could stand a bit of sidewalk-scraping, infect myself with something good and contagious, then go out and stamp on some cops. It was great, being nine years old.”

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