Vardui Akopyan Quotes

I wouldn't want to direct - I think that's a very different job. You have to be a very specific type of person to do that. ~ Romola Garai

Look at the way you and I have ended up. I renounced and abandoned the world in order to be here and devote myself entirely to the service of Christ far away from people. And now you return to me after embracing Islam, clad in nothing but tunic and waist-cloth, and with nothing to your name but a staff to walk on. Tell me, for Heaven's sake: What is the difference between us? Is not your renunciation of the world the same as mine? And, my dear: Is it not the same rejection of the state of the world and its inhabitants that has impelled both of us to leave everything behind, realizing as we do that there is no hope to be found in this world and that there is nothing left for us but the love of God? ~ Salwa Bakr

The ability of the 1 percent to buy politicians and regulators is nothing new in American politics - just as inequality has been a permanent part of our economic system. This is true of virtually all political and economic systems. ~ Eric Alterman

So we have broad bipartisan support for the bill, and it's my hope that we can build on some of the things that have been talked about in Washington involving building a larger ownership society. ~ Harold Ford, Jr.

He had made a vow, a private promise to the world in the long dark watches of the night, that if he did survive then in the great afterward he would always try to be kind, to live a good, quiet life. Like Candide, he would cultivate his garden. quietly. And that would be his redemption. Even if he could add only a feather to the balance it would be some kind of repayment for being spared. When it was all over and the reckoning fell due, it may be that he would be in need of that feather. ~ Kate Atkinson

There is a war
in your name

I have martyred you
sold you
to freedom

oh, Freedom ~ Banoo Zan

I think all of the attention of the world, to include the attention of the Arab world, should be on Saddam Hussein and whether or not he is prepared to give up the weapons of mass destruction that he has used to terrorise the region. ~ Colin Powell

I had successfully attended an event by myself. I had done something that was important to me, regardless of the fact that no one else wanted to go, and I had reconnected with my long lost love of fashion. I was not shunned. I did not die or spontaneously burst into flames. In fact, I was just fine. ~ Geva Salerno

When my old man wanted sex, my mother would show him a picture of me. ~ Rodney Dangerfield

And new conditions of existence will spring up, to which other men will grow just as accustomed, and I shall not know about them, for I shall be no more! ~ Leo Tolstoy

He explained to me that the reason he put his hand over
my heart," he pressed his palm to his chest, "was to keep my soul
safe. A vampire is more powerful when he still possesses his gift
from God." He sucked in a painfully sharp breath. "I've never told
anyone that."

~Dorian ~ Amanda J. Greene