"At Baalbek Nuts I bought pistachios from the Lebanese owners, who answered my request for their thoughts on the war with the typically Lebanese response of no problem. It's a lie, as we all knew."

-- Robert Fisk

#War Quotes #Lying Quotes #Nuts Quotes

“My concentration and focus level tends to go down sometimes when I'm in a bad mood.”
“I expect to pass through this world but once and therefore if there is anybody that I want to kick in the crutch I had better kick them in the crutch now, for I do not expect to pass this way again.”
“Look to the Lord and not to the world for your ideas and ideals about men and women.”
“Fads are the kiss of death. When the fad goes away, you go with it.”
“My son, I do not say these are foals and those asses, these little monkeys and those great baboons, as you would have me do. As I told you from the first, I regard them as earth's heroes. But I do not wish to believe them without cause, nor to accept those propositions whose antitheses (as you must have understood if you are not both blind and deaf) are so compellingly true.”
“Visionary people face the same problems everyone else faces; but rather than get paralyzed by their problems, visionaries immediately commit themselves to finding a solution.”
“The only exercise I excel at is jumping to conclusions.”
“But what we can never do is change the story that has made us what we are. It's a story completely dictated by the accumulation of life's manifold complexities—its capacity for astonishment and horror, for sanguinity and hopelessness, for pellucid light and the most profound darkness. We are what has happened to us.”

Source : "The Moment: A Novel".

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