Top 22 Ohanesian Quotes
#2. Everything we do is political," she says. "Even the things we choose not to do.
Aline Ohanesian
#3. We are all sorry for something. It's what makes us human, says Seda. But sometimes empathy is not enough. Sometimes empathy needs to be followed by action.
Aline Ohanesian
#4. The marketing mix consists of the types and amounts of controllable marketing-decision variables that a company uses over a particular time period. Commonly referred to as the "four Ps," these variables are:
John G. Wensveen
#5. Your work may be great and not make its way into the big picture ... like Van Gogh ... so who's to say what's good and bad?
Frank Gehry
#6. There, in the spaces between darkness and light, a sadness hangs in the air, invisible to the human eye yet heavy on the heart.
Aline Ohanesian
#7. Sometimes it's better to hold onto what you have, rather than risk what might be.
H.M. Ward
#8. Time and progress are two long-lost relatives who send an occasional letter.
Aline Ohanesian
#10. Each year the big garden grew smaller and Jane - who grew flowers by choice, not corn or stringbeans - worked at the vegetables more than I did. Each winter I dreamed crops, dreamed marvels of canning ... and each summer I largely failed. Shamefaced, I planted no garden at all.
Donald Hall
#11. if you paid enough attention to your past, it would grow and grow, obscure your present as well as your future.
Aline Ohanesian
#12. I watched 'Rocky' and 'Raging Bull' and 'Taxi Driver' over and over again. They spoke to you, man.
Paddy Considine
#13. And I'm not ashamed or regretful. I spent my days loving those who mattered to me. What else is there in life?
Aline Ohanesian
#14. His parents survived the Holocaust. He understand us," she told Bedros.
"He understand nothing," Bedros had shouted. "He shares his horror with the world, and the world gasps and apologizes. And what about us?" Bedros was right. The Armenians bore their loss alone.
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#15. There's only about about 6 to 8 inches between an open book and a human being's heart. A lot can happen in those 7 inches. Perspectives, fresh perspectives occur and minds expand, and I love fiction and I feel like it's a possibility for transformation.
Aline Ohanesian
#16. All of life, Orhan realizes, is a story within a story; how we choose to listen and which words we choose to speak makes all the difference.
Aline Ohanesian
#17. There is no passion in nature so demoniacally impatient, as that of him who, shuddering upon the edge of a precipice, thus meditates a Plunge.
Edgar Allan Poe
#18. Orhan fixates on the word genocide. Massacres abound in his country's history, as they do in any nation's history. But genocide is a different accusation altogether. Why do they insist on using that word?
Aline Ohanesian
#20. Where is your Christian god now?" the turbaned assassin shouts. Lucine thinks it is a good question. Not one person answers him. Not Mairig and not the missionary. Perhaps they sense what Lucine already knows, that if God is indeed anywhere, he is not here.
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#21. Among the American contemporaries I read with most enjoyment are several North Carolinians. I think the best poetry being written these days is being written by Southerners.
Robert Morgan