"There's nothing, absolutely nothing, more important than your life. And your life isn't more important than other people's lives."

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Source : Yasmina Khadra (2005). “The Attack”, Nan A. Talese

Yasmina Khadra

#People Quotes #Important Quotes

“Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles.”

Source : "Alex Karras obituary" by Michael Carlson, www.theguardian.com. October 11, 2012.
“In the sublime days before 11 September 2001, when the powerful were routinely attacking and terrorising the weak, and those dying were black or brown-skinned non-people living in faraway places such as Zaire and Guatemala, there was no terrorism. When the weak attacked the powerful, spectacularly on 9/11, there was terrorism.”
“Gary Cooper was a good friend. He was a great nature lover. He was like an American Indian, he knew every leaf that was turned over. It was an education to go for a walk with him.”
“A metaphor is not an ornament. It is an organ of perception. Through metaphors, we see the world as one thing or another.”
“Russian vodka is OK if you need to clean the oven. For drinking, it must henceforth be Polish.”

Source : Twitter post from Jan 18, 2014
“Nay, the greatest wits and poets, too, cease to live; Homer, their prince, sleeps now in the same forgotten sleep as do the others. [Lat., Adde repertores doctrinarum atque leporum; Adde Heliconiadum comites; quorum unus Homerus Sceptra potitus, eadem aliis sopitu quiete est.]”
“Failure is easy to measure. Failure is an event.Harder to measure is insignificance. A nonevent. Insignificance creeps, it dawns, it gives you hope, then delusion, then one day, when youâ€™re not looking, itâ€™s there, at your front door, on your desk, in the mirror, or not, not any of that, itâ€™s the lack of all that. One day, when you are looking, itâ€™s not looking, no one is. You lie in your bed and realize that if you donâ€™t get out of bed and into the world today, it is very likely no one will even notice.”
“I had a friend write me that our music was being played at Gay Pride in New York, which is a big compliment. In the biggest city in the country with the most culture and the most grit - I love it.”

Source : ChicagoPride.com Interview, chicago.gopride.com. August 26, 2009.

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