Zamenhof Quotes

#1. Ultimately Zamenhof's language [Esperanto] was and is more than a proposed solution to the language problem: it is an attempt to confront the spirit of inequality, of intolerance, of hatred that is tearing apart our beautiful world.

Humphrey Tonkin

#2. I come from rather an international, or in other words, a cosmopolitan background.

George Blake

#3. Words fail us. They are like keys: they open, but they also shut. When we were small and could hardly raise ourselves from the floor, we curled our fingers around the fingers of mother and father, and we looked into their faces as they looked into ours. Where is the word for that?

Anthony Esolen

#4. Avoid self-pity by taking responsibility for everything that happens to you, even if somebody else is at fault. By taking responsibility, I don't mean play doormat. I mean, repair yourself. Move forward. Move on. Then, only then, see if you can wrangle some empathy.

Augusten Burroughs

#5. beaver drools in my underwear.

Helena Hunting

#6. All power, even the most despotic, rests ultimately on opinion.

David Hume

#7. Guils is the greatest weapon vecause its cuts rarely heal and it aims for the heart

Orson Scott Card

#8. I'm never going to get used to hearing a woman talk like that."
"Shocking, is it?"
"Hard to shock an old sailor," he said. "But I'd love to see you try."
"Come upstairs," she said. "We'll see what I can do.

Tiffany Reisz

#9. I have no intention of going back to France, except for yearly visits to meet my family.

Francois Gautier