Quotes
Authors
Alfred-Maurice de Zayas
"Peace is not the silence of cemeteries, but the song of social justice." --
Source : "Rights Expert Urges the UN General Assembly to Adopt a More Decisive Role in Peace-making". "Alfred de Zayas' Human Rights Corner" blog, dezayasalfred.wordpress.com. September 26, 2013.
Alfred-Maurice de Zayas
#Song Quotes
#Justice Quotes
#Silence Quotes
“The fact is that a car used by Gerry Adams and myself during the course of the Mitchell review was bugged by elements within British military intelligence.”
“To me, Clark Kent in a phone booth and Houdini in a packing crate, they were one and the same thing," he would learnedly expound at WonderCon or Angoulême or to the editor of The Comics Journal . "You weren't the same person when you came out as when you went in.”
“There's something stubborn about families, unhappy ones in particular: they outlive themselves, and then they live on.”
“As my good friend Al Capp told me a few years ago, the best thing to do with a confirmed [hotel] reservation slip when you have no room is to spread it out on the sidewalk in front of the hotel and go to sleep on it. You'll either embarrass the hotel into giving you a room or you'll be hauled off to the local jug, where at least you'll have a roof over your head.”
“The best advice is to avoid foods with health claims on the label, or better yet avoid foods with labels in the first place.”
Source : FaceBook post by Mark Hyman, MD from Sep 11, 2012
“I have often noticed that when Fate has a phenomenal run of ill luck in store for you, she begins by dropping a rare piece of good fortune into your lap, thereby enhancing the artistic effect of the sequel.”
Source : Ethel Smyth (1946). “Impressions that remained”
“It was understood that they shared the same thresholds--the same inexhaustible appetite for wasting time, for discussing lofty ideas, for dissecting trivial things, for driving to nowhere in particular, for listening to music, for talking about books, for obsessing over pop culture, but mostly for laughing, talking, and simply being together. There was nothing one could say that the other would find too cruel or too kind. And on those rare occasions when they did tire of each other, they needed only go a day without talking before they yearned to reconnect.”
“The Ignorance the people live in leads them to commit mistakes against their own happiness”
