Herat Quotes

#1. Herat, 8 December. What a day it was! God save me from any more adventures on a drained stomach.

Robert Byron

#2. When I do retire, I know for a fact that I'll never be able to replace the incredible feeling I get when I'm driving an F1 car.

Jenson Button

#3. I don't usually set personal goals.

Tim Duncan

#4. When the light turns green, you go. When the light turns red, you stop. But what do you do when the light turns blue with orange and lavender spots?

Shel Silverstein

#5. I think that most people, and by people I mean journalists, think that I pre-conceive everything and that I spend my afternoons dreaming up self-mythologizing points of interest.

Jack White

#6. Compassion begins with the acknowledgment of the single inescapable truth that is the foundation for the possibility of love between human beings - an awareness of the tragic sense of life.

Sam Keen

#7. Drag me to the moon, to catch a star and seize its brilliance as I'm swept up in amorphous dust.

Bradley Chicho

#8. Comics is different than writing because when you draw something you are trying to visualize it and you are trying to put yourself in that space. And when you're drawing something, all sorts of associations come up in my mind that I never would have thought of otherwise.

Chris Ware

#9. Be Thou exalted above my comforts. Though it mean the loss of bodily comforts and the carrying of heavy crosses I shall keep my vow made this day before Thee. Be Thou exalted over my reputation.

A.W. Tozer

#10. According to George Soros, what's important is not whether you're right or wrong about the market. What's important is how much money you make when you're right about a trade, and how much money you lose when you're wrong.

Mark Tier

#11. I burned so long so quiet you must have wondered
if I loved you back. I did, I did, I do.

Annelyse Gelman

#12. I'm not interested in anything other than fucking you. I want to make that perfectly clear.

Ella Dominguez

#13. What gives journalism its authenticity and vitality is the tension between the subject's blind self absorption and the journalist's skepticism. Journalists who swallow the subject's account whole and publish it are not journalists but publicists.

Janet Malcolm

#14. After all, I think, isn't it always about a boy?

Emily Giffin

#15. We praise like frogs, Swear like frogs, Turn midgets into heroes, and heroes into scum: We never stop and think.

Nizar Qabbani

#16. Love has glints of light that wake up our heart to feel the beauty of life.

Debasish Mridha

#17. I saw my one purpose in that moment, looking into that little girls eyes. I was the one who was meant to save her, that was my one purpose all this time.

Justin Cronin