"Ah, Fist, itâ€™s the curse of history that those who should read them, never do."

-- Steven Erikson

#Fists Quotes #Should Quotes #Curse Quotes

“Beauty, well, it's one of the greatest, greatest gifts. I feel sorry sometimes because people are so worried and so involved in something that they don't have even five minutes to look at something beautiful.”

Source : Source: www.whitelotus.org
“I mean, when you get down to very low numbers of nuclear weapons, and you contemplate going to zero, how do you deal with the reality of that technology being available to almost any country that seeks to pursue it? And what conditions do you put in place?”
“I do catch myself driving around singing tunes, but I don't know if it's necessarily show tunes.”
“Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.”
“The explorers of the past were great men and we should honour them. But let us not forget that their spirit lives on. It is still not hard to find a man who will adventure for the sake of a dream or one who will search, for the pleasure of searching, not for what he may find.”

Source : Sir Edmund Hillary (2013). “High Adventure: Our Ascent of the Everest”, p.6, Roli Books Private Limited
“Everything necessary to understand my grandfather lies between two stories: the story of the tigerâ€™s wife, and the story of the deathless man. These stories run like secret rivers through all the other stories of his life â€“ of my grandfatherâ€™s days in the army; his great love for my grandmother; the years he spent as a surgeon and a tyrant of the University. One, which I learned after his death, is the story of how my grandfather became a man; the other, which he told to me, is of how he became a child again.”

Source : Tea Obreht (2011). “The Tiger's Wife”, p.15, Hachette UK
“I did Showtime at the Apollo when I was 10, and it was the first time that Id ever performed on TV, and it felt great.”
“We Liberal Democrats believe in dialogue. We believe in cooperation with both sides of industry and between both sides of industry. And we believe in the language of cooperation. We reject the language of confrontation.”

Source : Charles Kennedy's speech to the Trades Union Congress (TUC), www.theguardian.com. September 11, 2002.

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