Mehernosh Chemi Quotes

#1. Political biography is in the doldrums. No one wants to read 800 pages or so of cradle-to-grave dead politics, especially if it's familiar stuff and has all been written about before.

Jane Ridley

#2. Amnesty, that noble word, the genuine dictate of wisdom.

Aeschines

#3. Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land.

Walter Scott

#4. ...life makes ugly faces at us sometimes, I know.

Edith Wharton

#5. When people realize it is the living God you are presenting and not some idol that makes them feel good, they are going to turn on you, even people in your own family. There is a great irony here: proclaiming so much love, experiencing so much hate! But don't quit.

Eugene H. Peterson

#6. My mother wanted me to understand that as a woman I could do pretty much whatever I wanted to, that I didn't have to use sex or sexuality to define myself.

Suzanne Vega

#7. God, Most High, is the very one who Himself affirms His unity by the tongue of whatever of His creatures He wishes. If He Himself affirms His unity by my tongue, it is He and His affair. Otherwise, brother, I have nothing to do with affirming God's Unity.

Mansur Al-Hallaj

#8. Anyone who knows me knows that I have never been shy about how important Ferran Adria has been in my life; he is a friend, a mentor, an inspiration.

Jose Andres

#9. The job of the poet is to use language effectively, his own language, the only language which is to him authentic.

William Carlos Williams

#10. I feel like I've grown up on screen quite a lot.

Jack O'Connell