"It's odd how people waiting for you stand out far less clearly than people you are waiting for."

-- Jean Giraudoux

#People Quotes #Waiting Quotes #Odd Quotes

“She worked in order to live, and presently fell in love, also in order to live, for the heart, too, has its hunger.”
“Pike put down the cat. He slid from Pike's arms like molasses and puddled at his feet.”

Source : Robert Crais (2008). “Chasing Darkness: An Elvis Cole Novel”, p.163, Simon and Schuster
“I came from Bill Blass, where it was a well-oiled machine and if I said I needed a fabric, it was done. Now, I have to budget everything. I have to take on the role not just as a designer but a business. But Im a glass half-full kind of guy.”
“I have often noticed that the two nuclear powers on the Indian subcontinent, India and Pakistan, attribute to Kashmiris an inferior intellect, a lineage, and a mystique that has allowed the dominant regime to manipulate the Kashmiri "Other" as a stereotypical and predictable entity.”
“Within each of us is a hidden store of determination. Determination to keep us in the race when all seems lost.”

Source : Roger Dawson (1994). “The 13 secrets of power performance”, Prentice Hall Direct
“Our support for the Shah, the CIA coup in 1953 - has become infused into the Iranian political discourse. The regime that came to power in 1979 during the Iranian revolution actually defined itself as anti-American, and that's now a critical ingredient in the Iranian domestic political debate. That really is the source of our problems - the regime in Tehran continues to see itself as opposing the US. In their eyes, everything the US does is directed at them in a very malevolent way, and therefore they have to fight back against it.”

Source : "The Persian Puzzle: An Interview With Kenneth Pollack". Interview With Bradford Plumer, www.motherjones.com. January 24, 2005.
“If it were possible to talk to the unborn, one could never explain to them how it feels to be alive, for life is washed in the speechless real.”

Source : The House of Intellect ch. 6 (1959)
“Soccer just couldn't satisfy my thirst for watching violence up close.”

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