"Speaking about climate change is not a matter of intellectual luxury – the phenomenon is an actual fact … all of the industrialised countries, especially the big ones, bear responsibility for the global warming crisis."

“And it is that one percent, the heads of large corporations, who control the policies of news media and determine what you and I hear on radio, read in the newspapers, see on television. It is more important for us to think about where the media gets its information.”

“Most people are passive aggressive in this world. I have the idea that the human being is born with a kind of reservoir of aggression. We are inherently somewhat aggressive creatures and we either channel that in direct ways or we channel it in indirect ways and become passive aggressive.”

“The voice was gentle, like a scalpel petting the short hairs of your throat.”

“Once upon hearing a friend's bashing comment I said, "Did you reach that conclusion on your own, or did it come through prayer?"”

“All that land is filled with people, every one of them different, and the things they do to each other matter.”

“This is how memories are; what seems so clear and unforgettable at one moment vanishes like steam the next.”

Source : Michelle Moran (2011). “The Egyptian Royals Collection: Three Historical Novels by Michelle Moran: Nefertiti, The Heretic Queen, and Cleopatra's Daughter”, p.664, Broadway Books

“The basic premise of my system is to fatigue your opponents with constant pressure defensively and constant movement offensively.”

“Some men so dislike the dust kicked up by the generation they belong to, that, being unable to pass, they lag behind it.”