Homs Quotes

#1. The latter estimate is certainly an extravagant exaggeration - Author: Helmut Schmid

#2. Once upon a time, my mother lived in the posh downtown of Homs, Syria. She described my grandfather as a king in a storybook, atop a horse, wearing a didashah and pointing a long arm. - Author: Mona Simpson

#3. There is nobody I know by name who is concerned with collecting information for the Russian authorities. There are people whom I know by sight whom I trusted with my life. - Author: Klaus Fuchs

#4. Originality in art puts charm where it wasn't. - Author: Eli Siegel

#5. Wipe the pap of your mother's breast off thy lips and give me a hatful of that dirt,' the man with his chin on the ground said. 'No one of us will see the sun go down this night. - Author: Ernest Hemingway,

#6. And this is the worse part of it - when you realize that what separates you, someone who can leave, from someone who is trapped in Aleppo, or Homs or Douma or Darayya, is that you can walk away and go back to your home with electricity and sliced bread; then you begin to feel ashamed to be human. - Author: Janine Di Giovanni

#7. Everyone knows we get paid a lot of money, so why pretend otherwise? - Author: Catherine Zeta-Jones

#8. Be grateful for small mercies. - Author: Alexandra Adornetto

#9. Business owners are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an owner away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business. He never stops hurtling onwards, making decisions and executing them. - Author: Jean Baudrillard

#10. That is what a shadow is, and empty space, a hole in the light. Evil is this - a hole in the goodness of God. - Author: Ann Voskamp

#11. Ayden saw me and his body slumped. "Oh, thank God." "Please," Matthias said. "I told you she's too hard to kill." "Aww," I said. "Thank you." Matthias offered me a sweet smile. "Just like a cockroach." - Author: A&E Kirk

#12. People are made in such a way that even the holiest ones are liable to offend one another. - Author: Vincent De Paul