"Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle."

-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#Peace Quotes #War Quotes #Lying Quotes

“Sometimes youâ€™re loved because of your weaknesses. What you canâ€™t do is sometimes more compelling than what you can.”
“One of the most striking of abstract art's appearances is her nakedness, an art stripped bare.”
“We are all one - or at least we should be - and it is our job, our duty, and our great challenge to fight the voices of division and seek the salve of reconciliation.”

Source : "Governor Barnes Addresses Georgia Senate on Flag Issue". www.cnn.com. January 30, 2001.
“Writing is a process and you must trust the process! Fear and anxiety are part of that process along with the enthusaism and the good days and the joy and the passion and the great hopes you have for a book. But when you run into problems, when you get stuck or scared, you must trust that that is part of how a book comes to pass, and what you need to do is get very still and quiet because Self will tell you how to get out of a hole you've dug for yourself.”
“A blind man. I can stare at him ashamed, shameless. Or does he know it? No, he is in a great solitude. O, strange joy, to gaze my fill at a stranger's face. No, my thirst is greater than before.”
“You work [as an actor] for a bit, and then the job ends 'cause you get thrown off a bridge. And then, you suddenly don't have a career and you have to wait for the next bit to come along. It's the most strange profession in the world.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“The difference between farce and humour in literature is, I suppose, that farce strums louder and louder on one string, while humour varies its note, changes its key, grows and spreads and deepens until it may indeed reach tragic depths.”

Source : V.S. Pritchett (2011). “In My Good Books”, p.42, A&C Black
“There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent loss of national self-respect and honor, beneath which are shielded and defended a people's safety and greatness.”

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