Expat Living Quotes

#1. He had read books, newspapers and magazines. He knew that if you ran away you sometimes met bad people who did bad things to you; but he had also read fairy tales, so he knew that there were kind people out there, side by side with the monsters.

Neil Gaiman

#2. I live in a village where people still care about each other, largely.

Jan Karon

#3. I had chosen to leave, and live alone in a foreign country. And in fleeing thousands of miles across the Pacific, I chose myself, and a chance at a different future.

Alison Singh Gee

#4. Imagine how asleep or utterly unperceptive and clueless you would have to be not to see yourself as absurd for the most part.

John Malkovich

#5. Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, she became a butterfly.

Barbara Haines Howett

#6. Why tell me to be reasonable when you should be telling me to be courageous? [Arlana to Dave in The Battle for Halcyon]

Peter Kazmaier

#7. If I have stepped on some people at times because I am at the top, it couldn't be helped. What should I do if someone gets hurt ... retire?

Maria Callas

#8. Vatican II and the Space/Information Age began in the same eye blink of history, with John XXIII's opening speech of Vatican II on Oct. 11, 1962, following John F. Kennedy's call for a round trip to the moon a month earlier.

Eugene Kennedy

#9. Cuba laments and expresses its profound sadness for the loss of so many innocent lives and expresses our absolute rejection of acts of terrorism, wherever they may come from.

Felipe Perez Roque