Pintilie Braila Quotes

#1. I believe that Gandhi's views were the most enlightened of all the political men in our time. We should strive to do things in his spirit: not to use violence in fighting for our cause, but by non-participation in anything you believe is evil.

Albert Einstein

#2. The leaves were half-gone now. The Norway maples still hung on to their yellow, but most of the orangey-red of the sugar maples had found their way to the ground, leaving behind the stark branches that seemed to hang like stuck-out arms and tiny fingers, skeletal and bleak.

Elizabeth Strout

#3. Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel.

Robert Hughes

#4. You can't just sit there hating the wound, Tan, or indulging in bitterness. Whatever you become in life, always ask yourself, am I making more life or am I making more death?

Michael D. O'Brien

#5. Harsh justice is still justice.

George R R Martin

#6. Many nations are like rebellious teenagers who try to figure out just how many times they can kick us in the teeth while still taking our money.

Paul Weyrich

#7. Death is what takes place within us when we look upon others not as gift, blessing, or stimulus but as threat, danger, competition.

Dorothee Solle

#8. She was like a drowning person, flailing, reaching for anything that might save her. Her life was an urgent, desperate struggle to justify her life.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#9. It is our duty to love the unloved, help the helpless, and bring hope to the hopeless

Anthony Douglas