"After the allied victory of 1918, at the end of my father's war, the victors divided up the lands of their former enemies. In the space of just seventeen months, they created the borders of Northern Ireland, Yugoslavia and most of the Middle East. And I have spent my entire careerâ€”in Belfast and Sarajevo, in Beirut and Baghdadâ€”watching the people within those borders burn."

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Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Robert Fisk

#War Quotes #Father Quotes #Land Quotes

“The last thing you want to do when you are about to film a scene is think, 'Oh my God, so many people are going to watch this.”
“That Moorish architecture is all over the place, of course. It affects me everywhere I see it, as it does so many people. But Brand Library was a special place to me, and I know I've paid homage to it many times in my drawings.”

Source : Interview with Jason Heller, www.avclub.com. July 8, 2010.
“There are no simple words. I don't know why I thought I could hide anything behind language.”
“Nobody asked to be born. Life is hard. Kinda.”

Source : Lil B's Lecture at New York University in New York City, New York, www.thefader.com. April 12, 2012.
“Any father whose son raises his hand against him is guilty of having produced a son who raised his hand against him.”
“and her skin shone luminous and impossibly pale, as if it drank light from the moon.”

Source : Madeline Miller (2011). “The Song of Achilles”, p.58, A&C Black
“The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but thatâ€™s no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.”

Source : "Is There a Santa Claus?". The New York Sun, en.wikisource.org. September 21, 1897.
“America's business problem is that it is entering the twenty-first century with companies designed during the nineteenth century to work well in the twentieth.”

Source : "Reengineering the Corporation". Book by James A. Champy and Michael Martin Hammer, p. 30, 1993.

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