"In terrible moments, in moments of revolution, of war or repression, of illness or death, people react with incredible strength."

-- Isabel Allende

#War Quotes #People Quotes #Revolution Quotes

“I call Sally Field 'America's Mother!' She is incredible to watch.”
“I remember when an editor at the National Geographic promised to run about a dozen of my landscape pictures from a story on the John Muir trail as an essay, but when the group of editors got together, someone said that my pictures looked like postcards”
“I can only speak for myself - I don't care how I look.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“What I was really overwhelmed with by Africa was its tremendous natural beauty; I got to go to some pretty amazing places. Every other weekend we got a day or two off and go on a safari or the natural wonders of Africa and if anyone gets the opportunity to go there, it's something you have to do in your lifetime.”

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“We may form free constitutions, but our vices will destroy them; we may enact laws, but they will not protect us.”
“I'm optimistic about Turkey's prospects for reaching the E.U.'s standards of development, governance, and democracy, whether inside or outside the E.U. Provided you have a prosperous, rational society in Turkey that can interact with Europe and the West, I don't really care what kind of institutional arrangement you have. The point to make about Turkey and Europe is that it's a very long, drawn-out process. What's important is that the process not be stopped, that Turkey and Europe evolve in the right direction, on a path of convergence. Convergence is the name of the game.”
“All the things that are negative in me as a person - the incompetence and despair and weakness and pain - are like a gift from God in a performer. If you don't hide them and if you stop lying to yourself about what you are and are not, there is a ring or a tent or a stage where you can take them and use them to make something beautiful.”
“The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.”

Source : Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.35, Penguin

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