"History laughs at both the victim and the aggressor."

-- Mahmoud Darwish

#Laughing Quotes #Victim Quotes

“I went to a restaurant that serves 'breakfast at any time'. So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance.”
“It's the fear of not being as good as you want to be. If you give over to that fear, it will sabotage you. As much as I can, I try to use that fear to guide me.”

Source : "MH Grill: Chris Pine". Interview with Brittany Kennedy, www.menshealth.co.uk. April 30, 2013.
“I love the puzzled look on people's faces when I mention I grew up telling time according to television.”

Source : Source: www.elle.com
“Law intends indeed to do service to human life, but it is not able when men do not choose to accept her services; for it is only in those who are obedient to her that she displays her special virtue.”
“Isaiah Berlin once said that there are two kinds of writers, hedgehogs and foxes. He said the fox knows many things, the hedgehog knows just one thing. So Shakespeare is a typical fox; Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky are typical hedgehogs. Now, I'm a typical hedgehog. I know just one thing, and I repeat it over and over again. I try to approach it from different angles to make it look different, but it's the same thing.”
“Ideally, travel broadens our perspectives personally, culturally, and politically. Suddenly, the palette with which we paint the story of our lives has more colors.”

Source : Rick Steves (2014). “Rick Steves Travel as a Political Act”, p.15, Avalon Travel
“Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.”
“The man or woman who doesn't forgive has forgotten the price that Christ paid for them on the Cross.”

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