Wharves On The Thames Quotes

#1. There were people who were born with an inability to be tangled up in dark emotions, in complications, and Iloba was one of them. For such people, Obinze felt both admiration and boredom.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#2. Ever since the introduction of psychoanalysis there have been too many terms to excuse behavior and phrases that can be [used] to explain everything.

Sean Connery

#3. War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#4. I think that for the actors, the last thing that they want is a director that's not watching, a director that goes 'Okay, it sounded good to me,' and they were doing something else or preoccupied with something else because they were worried about the light changing.

Gus Van Sant

#5. Let the machine take care of the machines, and I'll go spend more time with my family, or golf.

Mark Goddard

#6. We need to develop a sense of sufficiency to be happy.

Satish Kumar

#7. Interestingly, the more Americans report knowing about Muslim countries, the more likely they are to hold positive views of those countries. (p. 155)

John L. Esposito

#8. High school is life's way of giving you a record low to judge the rest of your life by. I know this because no matter how shitty it got, I could always look back and say, "At least I don't have my arm stuck up a cow's vagina." In fact, that's kind of become my life's motto.

Jenny Lawson

#9. For every look at self, take 10 looks at Christ.

Robert Murray M'Cheyne

#10. If the lambs were flying, wolves would have also the wings to fly!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#11. God has given me so much. He expects so much out of me.

Louis Zamperini

#12. The great thing about him, is that he will not quit.

Cristiano Ronaldo