I was born with my eyes turned inward.

Biography should be written by an acute enemy.

The reason I’m attracted to the light of Scripture is because there’s another side of me that is dark. The reason I am interested in men of peace is because I’m not like them and...

None of my friends had grandparents like these. … Tony and Desolina were exotic.

A popular Harvard business professor urged his students to read the obituaries in the New York Times before they read anything else, in order to learn from the lives of great men.

Is that the ultimate need? To secure some agent to act as a salve, a bandage, a cover-up, concealer over the black eye, as opposed to facing the issue head on. Nobody wants to address...

If history is written by the victors, conspiracy theory is typically written by the losers, and there were few greater losers in the revolution than the French church and especially the Jesuits.

[Taken from a BBC documentary]Tariq was born in Lahore, now in Pakistan, then part of British-ruled India, in 1943. A Catholic school education did nothing to shake his life-long atheism, which he shared with his...

A regime that can suspend or abrogate the constitution and run the country on its whims and caprice should be ashamed of bringing on its lips the word “law”. It is like prescribing a punishment...

Let us make sure that future generation writes our biography.

I want to live my life, not record it.

I started studying law, but this I could stand just for one semester. I couldn’t stand more. Then I studied languages and literature for two years. After two years I passed an examination with the...

Let them Teach,Let them learn,let them pray,for the world is theirs.

La imagen de la biblioteca como refugio en donde se repliega la afectividad de Juana Inés y se despliega su actividad mental, ha de completarse con otra, que toca a la voluntad y al carácter:...

We think of 1789 as the date of the French Revolution, and the storming of the Bastille as its defining event. Yet as late as halfway through 1792, most of the familiar images of the...

The features of character are carved out of adversity.

Life, it has been agreed by everyone whose opinion is worth consulting, is the only fit subject for novelist or biographer; life, the same authorities have decided, has nothing whatever to do with sitting still...

Be realistic, Aiden, I told myself. You know your value to the penny and it’s measured in inches, time, age, stamina, looks, and being able to put up with gross and sometimes bizarre situations. Personality...

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.

Because I always feel like running. Not away, because there is no such place. Because if there was, I would have found it by now. Because it’s easier to run, easier than staying and finding...

It’s strange how things seem to come full circle. You know what I mean? I’m sure you do. The way your life seems to drift along with no set path, then something good happens to...

The elements are a way to define what abstract is; and abstract is a taught as like any other than ,what to think? and how to think? and you may begin..

I’m not Mickey Mouse, I’m a human being.

Whatever you believe, and however, each of us deals with these events in our lives, one thing is for certain the truism, time is a great healer, is of no consolation at that moment of...

In 1946 there was no money in art, no dealer galleries, no craft shops. After the war we started to teach art in every school for the first time. Our generation played a crucial role....

Do not follow other’s quotes,because you’re the one who knows about yourself ,and what is suitable for you. everyone has their own quotes. So make yours too.

…she herself loved the character of Elizabeth Bennet. “I must confess that I think her as delightful a creature as ever appeared in print, and how I shall be able to tolerate those who do...

By now, he was also a ‘Protestant Atheist’, which he remained all his life.

So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.

She had privacy, and the privilege of walking up and down the same battlements as the sentries.

It seems to me that someone must surely take the hint and write the life of Miss McGeeney, the woman who wrote the biography of the man who wrote the biography of the man who...

The Air Loom had been constructed by the Jacobins in Paris around the time of their coup d’etat in 1793. Just as they had corrupted the ideals of the Enlightenment to their despotic ends, so...

I regret that I didn’t realize that actually they’ve got no power over you at school — it’s all just a trick to indoctrinate you into being a conditioned, tame, placid citizen. Rebel, children, I...

The Element of Surprise is their in every day,It’s when you wake up.

Monotony is the only reward of the cautious

»Noch immer unentschieden. Franz«. Vier Worte, eine Autobiographie.

You must value something highly to go to war to improve it

It is in the elements that we found ourselves; even though the elements are not the same today.

Life is not an orderly progression, self-contained like a musical scale or a quadratic equation… If one is to record one’s life truthfully, one must aim at getting into the record of it something of...

The French army had crowned a campaign of extraordinary successes by defeating the Austrians at Jemappes and pressing on to occupy a large swathe of Belgium and threaten Holland. For Britain, this changed everything: a...

Every life is inexplicable, I kept telling myself. No matter how many facts are told, no matter how many details are given, the essential thing resists telling. To say that so and so was born...

Anyone who has the temerity to write about Jane Austen is aware of [two] facts: first, that of all great writers she is the most difficult to catch in the act of greatness; second, that...

I have heard the most fantastical gossip about myself and each time I thought, “If only my life were that exciting, fun, outrageous, and sexy”. Then again my memory wasn’t so sharp when I took...

I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.

From the ages of 8-18, me and my family moved around a lot. Mostly we would just stretch, but occasionally one of us would actually get up to go to the fridge.

It doesn’t help anyone to judge their happiness or career by looking at where others may or may not be. Dad said it best: ‘All the time you’re looking left and right at other people,...

Will we ever see his like again? It is doubtful. But at least for a brief moment in time we were lucky to have him as one of our own: an English lionheart who was...

Perhaps the most difficult thing about loving and helping an addict, which most people who haven’t been through it don’t understand, is this: every day the cycle continues is your new worst day. When looked...

The trouble with life (the novelist will feel) is its amorphousness, its ridiculous fluidity. Look at it: thinly plotted, largely themeless, sentimental and ineluctably trite. The dialogue is poor, or at least violently uneven. The...

It’s very hard to reach people in Greymouth with pottery or any form of art because they’re allergic to it. Allergic to it ever since they began really because they’ve taken from the ground in...