"Reality is a powerful solvent."

-- Tony Judt

#Powerful Quotes #Reality Quotes

“I have had to pay a price for leaving Islam and for speaking out. I have to pay for round-the-clock security because of the death threats against me.”

Source : Ayaan Hirsi Ali (2011). “Nomad: From Islam to America: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations”, p.129, Simon and Schuster
“There's smoke in my iris, but I painted a sunny day on the insides of my eyelids”

Source : Song: Battery, Album: Labor Days, 2001
“I'm a big Batman fan and got to be on the series Gotham.”

Source : Source: www.blackfilm.com
“Most people live uncomplicated lives. They have work and quietly rear their children. There is an order and sanity about them that keeps the world going. There is an outer disorder and insanity about my life which makes me a victim. One of the disorders is that they won't give us citizenship here ...”

Source : Bessie Head, Randolph Vigne (1991). “A gesture of belonging: letters from Bessie Head, 1965-1979”, Heinemann
“Before I go to bed at night, I ice my face, because it closes your pores and makes a difference in the morning.”
“I had spared the stag's life. The power of that life belonged to me as surely as it belonged to the man who had taken it.”
“What are Americans still buying? Big Macs,Campbell's soup,Hershey's chocolate and Spam--the four food groups of the apocalypse.”

Source : "Herbert Hoover Lives" by Frank Rich, www.nytimes.com. January 31, 2009.
“What really alarms me about President Bush's 'War on Terrorism' is the grammar. How do you wage war on an abstract noun? How is 'Terrorism' going to surrender? It's well known, in philological circles, that it's very hard for abstract nouns to surrender.”

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