"Where were the peacekeepers? Where was the UN? Why was the entire world ignoring Saddam's attack upon his own people? Were we Kurds considered so unworthy, so disposable? I longed to stand at the top of the mountain and shout out, Where are you, world? Where are you ?"

-- Jean Sasson

#People Quotes #Mountain Quotes #World Quotes

“Has my heart gone to sleep? Have the beehives of my dreams stopped working, the waterwheel of the mind run dry, scoops turning empty, only shadow inside? No, my heart is not asleep. It is awake, wide awake. Not asleep, not dreamingâ€” its eyes are opened wide watching distant signals, listening on the rim of vast silence”

Source : Antonio Machado, Alan S. Trueblood (1982). “Antonio Machado”, p.93, Harvard University Press
“Fancy Restaurant: one that serves cold soup on purpose.”
“If you can defend, counter-attack and take the initiative then you become a more dangerous player.”
“If I ever wanted a gnome, I guess Id just stand out on my lawn for a while.”
“[T]hou canst not think worse of me than I do of myself.”

Source : Robert Burton (1800). “The Anatomy of Melancholy; what it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes, Prognostics, and Several Cures of it: In Three Partitions with Their Several Sections, Members, and Sub-sections, Philosophically, Medicinally, Historically Opened and Cut Up”, p.12
“Why on earth should I care whether people read me with their eyes or their ears?”
“I hope children will be happy with the books I've written, and go on to be readers all of their lives.”

Source : "Beverly Cleary at 95: A Talk With the Author Who Created Ramona Quimby". Interview with Rachel Brown, www.theatlantic.com. July 6, 2011.
“There was a great sense of community mainly among the women artists at the time because we felt left out. I still know most of the women that I knew then, the ones that are still alive.”

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