Ethnological Museum Quotes

#1. Mubarak came to power as a hero who fought bravely in Egypt's wars and headed the nation's air force.

Ahmed Zewail

#2. The time for war has not yet come, but it will come, and that soon. And when it does come, my advice is to draw the sword and throw away the scabbard.

S.C. Gwynne

#3. It's remarkable how very many things there are that a king may not do.

Geraldine Brooks

#4. You never get to pick how you get pinned and how people perceive you.

Taylor Hanson

#5. Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.

Shirley Hazzard

#6. Lessa was Ramoth's and Ramoth was hers, mind and heart, irrevocably attuned. Only death could dissolve that incredible bond.

Anne McCaffrey

#7. In this way he will draw men to him by the strong cords of their passions, made reason-proof by being baptized with the name of piety.

Christopher Hitchens

#8. God heales, and the Physitian hath the thankes.

George Herbert

#9. God's love for us is uncoerced and so freely given that it does not demand a response. But so freely is it given that it creates freedom in the recipient, so that our response is not one of obligation or duty, nor the returning of a favor, but uncoerced love.

Mark Galli

#10. It wasn't so much that I was in search of answers. In fact, I was wary of the whole idea of answers. I wanted to climb all the way inside of the questions and see what was there.

Dani Shapiro

#11. To make knowledge valuable, you must have the cheerfulness of wisdom.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#12. She hadn't been broken; she'd been furious and hurt, but never broken...

Linda Howard

#13. All I know is that loneliness is a slow and painful death.' Marion paused.

Arnaldur Indridason

#14. My heart was broken and my head was just barely inhabitable

Anne Lamott

#15. Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.

Isaac D'Israeli