Quotes About Karabakh

#1. Armenians and Azerbaijanis in Stepanakert, capital of the Nagorno-Karabakh autonomous region, rioted over much needed spelling reform in the Soviet Union.

P. J. O'Rourke

#2. We hear warmongering every day, every day we hear threats and attempts to scare us ... We don't want war and never wanted, but at that time [i.e. during Nagorno-Karabakh war] we had to defend our Motherland. If the time comes again, this time our blow will be final and deadly.

Serzh Sargsyan

#3. What I observed in western Azerbaijan, among the small portion of the nearly one million Azerbaijanis who were displaced by the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh two decades ago, are a people who are aching to return to their homes.

Ed Kashi

#4. The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.

Marcel Proust

#5. I flip off Pigpen. He suggests something anatomically impossible, and as the familiar ribbing begins[--}

Katie McGarry

#6. How does this happen? To fall in love and be disassembled.

Michael Ondaatje

#7. Suffering is above, not below. And everyone thinks that suffering is below. And everyone wants to rise. - Antonio Porchia

David James Duncan

#8. A lot of people go straight from denial to despair without pausing in the middle and doing something about it.

Al Gore

#9. In singing, there's a vibration that comes from deep down inside, literally from your sex. When you put out that vibration, people can feel it. Billie Holiday does it. Peggy Lee does it. It's very hot.

Elizabeth Berkley

#10. I dislike the word 'victim.' I dislike being told that I 'lost' my husband - as if I had idly abandoned you by the side of the railway track like an unwanted pair of old shoes.

Nina Bawden

#11. No man had ever heard a nightingale, When once a keen-eyed naturalist was stirred To study and define
what is a bird.

Emma Lazarus

#12. The club survived though and became a symbol of hope and pride for over half a million refugees scattered across Azerbaijan, many of whom still live in temporary settlements within a few kilometers of the frontline.

Arthur Huizinga

#13. If no one can stalemate God in a game of chess, no one should ever think of winning.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#14. Why is erasing desire seen as so important? If the subjugation of the self is the point of the self what's the point in having a self? It's like someone handing you a leaflet which says throw this leaflet away.

Tibor Fischer

#15. Me and Seven, I thought as I arched my back. Me and Seven, that's all there is. That's all there needs to be. He kissed me sweetly as his hips rolled forward, and his breath became fire in my mouth.

T.J. Klune

#16. Silence is letting what there is be what it is. In that sense it has to do profoundly with God: the silence of simply being. We experience that at times when there is nothing we can say or do that would not intrude on the integrity and the beauty of that being.

Rowan Williams

#17. There is nothing more explosive than a skilled population condemned to inaction. Such a population is likely to become a hotbed of extremism and intolerance, and be receptive to any proselytizing ideology, however absurd and vicious, which promises vast action.

Eric Hoffer

#18. I had to put my kid before my career and all the money I was making. I decided to do the right thing. I was dying inside. If I didn't have my daughter, I would be dead right now, for sure.

Brian Welch