Wakened By The Wind Quotes

#1. Perhaps one can see one's destiny accomplished before one's very eyes and still feel hungry.

Joseph Roth

#2. Some secrets are like fossils and the stone has become too heavy to turn over.

Delphine De Vigan

#3. They [Arabs] wanted to catch up with the modern world. The West appreciated that, but was more interested in colonies, markets, and spheres of influence. Such is the way in which historical forces operate: the give and take between nations, as between cultures, is no simple exchange

Jabra Ibrahim Jabra

#4. You want me in there so badly, don't you?

Sibylla Matilde

#5. To the Cold War veterans here, know that your steadfast efforts preserved a delicate balance, and, because of you, the global war that many feared never came to pass. We are thankful for you, as we are for all the veterans here with us.

Michael Mullen

#6. There was a time when the respect and trust my children had for me would have made you sick to your stomach. They believed I could blow on a red traffic light and turn it green.

Erma Bombeck

#7. We should have had socialism already, but for the socialists.

George Bernard Shaw

#8. There is no such thing as luck. There is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe.

Robert A. Heinlein

#9. Who you are; that is, who you choose to be - your identity, works in your life like an invisible hand.

Bryant McGill

#10. I tell stories. Because I believe you can do things that joke tellers can't do, and that is, bring your audience along.

Bill Cosby

#11. It was such a spring day as breathes into a man an ineffable yearning, a painful sweetness, a longing that makes him stand motionless, looking at the leaves or grass, and fling out his arms to embrace he knows not what.

John Galsworthy

#12. It is not the amount of friends that is important, but the amount of integrity, sincerity, and love in your friends

Charles F. Glassman

#13. I don't think I have ever worn more outfits over the course of four days than I did Emmy weekend. You barely sleep. You don't eat.

Allison Tolman