My grandparents used to tell me stories about their trip to Ellis Island from Russia and life on the Lower East Side of New York. James Gray Read Quote
We believe that peace is not just signed papers, but rather a contract between generations for the building of a more promising and less threatening future. Hussein of Jordan Read Quote
Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again. Evelyn Underhill Read Quote
Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt. Eric Sevareid Read Quote
Crime stories are our version of sitting round a camp fire and telling tales. We enjoy being scared under safe circumstances. That’s why there’s no tradition of crime writing in countries that have wars. Camilla Lackberg Read Quote
No one doubts that poison gas was used in Syria. But there is every reason to believe it was used, not by the Syrian Army, but by opposition forces to provoke intervention by their powerful foreign patrons, who would be siding with the fundamentalists. Vladimir Putin Read Quote
Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much. Gilbert K. Chesterton Read Quote