Prisonniers Politiques Quotes

#1. Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.

Shirley Hazzard

#2. It is almost always wrong that the time isn't ripe to decide something. That is always said of difficult problems.

Chris Patten

#3. Time has scratched its mark all over the Giza Plateau!

Ibrahim Ibrahim

#4. Do you suppose it all means something?
That we're being left clues?
Perhaps.
Then, no offense, but I fear they've badly overestimated us.

Colin Cotterill

#5. I believe in just enriching the economy. And we're leaving so much on the table, 72 percent of the planet.

Robert Ballard

#6. Look at your own poverty
welcome it
cherish it
don't be afraid
share your death
because thus you will share your love and your life

Jean Vanier

#7. There is but one right, and the possibilities of wrong are infinite.

Thomas Huxley

#8. Thank you Prince for all of your inspiration and sharing your increadible talents with the world. You will be incredibly missed.

Lindsay Lohan

#9. If the godly give in to the wicked, it's like polluting a fountain or muddying a spring.

Anonymous

#10. Before I published anything, I dreamed of publication, but I didn't actually write for it. I imagined that writing for an audience was something for fancier people. I aspired, but mostly I wrote for myself. I wrote because it made me happy.

Ariel Gore

#11. To block the construction of centralized power projects, as not being 'appropriate' or 'sustainable' is to condemn billions of people to continued poverty and disease-and millions to premature death.

Paul Driessen

#12. I never thought Jazz was meant to be a museum piece like other dead things once considered artistic.

Miles Davis

#13. I didn't know Kurt Cobain or Amy Winehouse, but I was affected by both of their deaths because I admired their work so much and mourned their youth and work they would never produce.

Patti Smith

#14. Pluto is cold; Chicago in January is merely inconvenient.

Mark Blumberg