Ahmad Shamlou Quotes

#1. For any actor, it's a great privilege to play a character that is very distant from yourself.

James Norton

#2. War can't give life, it can only take it away.

Edwin Starr

#3. My colleagues have expressed confidence in my ability to articulate our conservative message and to provide new focus to our efforts in the General Assembly.

Philip E. Berger

#4. acts like a kind of reset button: it makes people forget themselves and their petty concerns.

Jonathan Haidt

#5. If a lady should do this, Raisa wondered, should a man do the same? Is he required to?

Cinda Williams Chima

#6. It seemed she would marry, be a wife to this unknown Scot, the mother of his children, and lady of his people . . . Lord save them all. R

Lynsay Sands

#7. Biographers use historians more than historians use biographers, although there can be two-way traffic - e.g., the ever-growing production of biographies of women is helping to change the general picture of the past presented by historians.

Claire Tomalin

#8. Tomorrow, the Tripartite Pact will become an instrument of just peace between the peoples. Italians! Once more arise and be worthy of this historical hour! We shall win.

Benito Mussolini

#9. A thousand laughing suns are in your eyes. A thousand crying stars in mine.

Ahmad Shamlou

#10. In 1962, a typo by a NASA programmer resulted in Mariner 1 being sent into the ocean rather than its intended destination, Venus. The cause was a missed hyphen.

Drummond Moir

#11. Before I take my last breath, before my last flower withers, I wish to live, I wish to make love, I wish to be in this world close to those who need me, those who I need, in order to learn, comprehend and rediscover that I can be and I want to be better at every moment.

Ahmad Shamlou

#12. The intelligentsia ... was kept busy embroidering white stitches on the philosophical and ecclesiastical vestments of the bourgeoisie - that old and filthy fabric besmeared with the blood of toiling masses.

Maxim Gorky

#13. Didnt men ever think about anything that really mattered?

Margaret Mitchell

#14. They all went into the bar business. Which was a mistake, because they began to sip at the merchandise and it set them back, set us all back. Well, them more than I.

Frank McCourt

#15. If liberty sang a song, little,
as the larynx of a bird,
nowhere would there remain a tumbling wall.

Ahmad Shamlou

#16. The possibility of losing him is 100 years of solitude I don't want to imagine.

Tahereh Mafi