Avventura Press Quotes

#1. When an Indian fights, he only shoots to kill.

Chief Joseph

#2. The Western world doesn't really give enough credit to the importance in history of the Soviet invasion and the subsequent war in Afghanistan. For us it was a sideshow of the Cold War. For the Islamic world it was an unprovoked infidel invasion of a Muslim country not unlike Iraq.

Michael Scheuer

#3. She didn't mind a little rain. At least no one would see her cry.

Lisi Harrison

#4. The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.

Barbara Bush

#5. The civilization of cities is breeding a new race of monks who have none of the original religious drive towards chastity, but are just incapable of facing the responsibilities of marriage.

Kylie Tennant

#6. A lot of people don't know if Denmark is a country or a cheese.

Bassam Tibi

#7. I just have tried to adapt to the constant changes that happen all the time in my schedule and try and find any sort of mini-predictability and balance within my very unpredictable life.

Mikaela Shiffrin

#8. Already he was realizing that he would be more ashamed of her in the city than he was here. Then, quite suddenly, he was not ashamed of her, but of himself. Deeply ashamed.

Warren Eyster

#9. The war and the revolution are inseparable.

George Orwell

#10. To learn is to be young, however old.

Aeschylus

#11. Our thoughts deceive us more than our senses.

Marty Rubin

#12. Are Iraqis ready to carry the responsibility for their country? Is Iraq ready to be its own master? We want to be the masters of ourselves and to carry our responsibilities in this region.

Ahmed Chalabi