Habib Bourguiba Quotes

#1. While I am alive, not a hair on Jewish heads will be touched.

Habib Bourguiba

#2. Surprise is when a prime minister is assassinated during his speech. Suspense is when an assassin lurks while the prime minister speaks. Balancing surprise and suspense is the job of the thriller writer.

Ashwin Sanghi

#3. God is good, there is no devil but fear.

Elbert Hubbard

#4. Familiarity isn't always a good thing ... sometimes you need a little crisis to shake things up.

Karl Hyde

#5. It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.

Oscar Wilde

#6. When an officer of the law detects a vice in himself, he knows enough to start looking for its presence in others.

Norman Mailer

#7. Tunisia is always ready to turn the page.

Habib Bourguiba

#8. I spend way too much time watching television, going to sports games, going to movies. It struck me that there's an awful lot of data in the public domain for these sectors. The movie industry publishes weekly sales numbers - not many industries do.

Anita Elberse

#9. The only Jews who interest us are our fellow citizens." "Basically and profoundly, we are with the West.

Habib Bourguiba

#10. It's the relationship that heals, the relationship that heals, the relationship that heals - my professional rosary.

Irvin D. Yalom

#11. You are wrong. The state and its existence are essential before everything else. All this preoccupation with liberty is not serious.

Habib Bourguiba

#12. Our whole lives are a struggle with mysteries. Mysteries endanger us, support us, destroy us. Our great scientists have cleared away these mysteries in some directions by deepening them in others.

Alasdair Gray

#13. The true fruit of travel is perhaps the feeling of being nearly everywhere at home.

Freya Stark

#14. I was a jackass in many ways. I projected that cruelty towards others, that kid whose hand I was wringing. If I could have hurt a hundred weaklings - weaker than me, and I was already very weak - I would. I was dying to hurt somebody, to pay it forward.

Gary Shteyngart

#15. Isn't that what intimacy so often is? Supposing you understand, conveying that you do, because you feel in theory that you could understand, and you want to, and yet secretly you don't?

Rachel Kushner

#16. That's right, I'm still captured,' said Damen.
'Your eyes say, "For now,"' Laurent said. 'Your eyes have always said, "For now.

C.S. Pacat