Zaparo Quotes

#1. You must let suffering speak, if you want to hear the truth

Cornel West

#2. It would seem that Caesar's recurrent and deep-rooted fault was his concentration in pursuing the objective immediately in front of his eyes to the neglect of his wider object. Strategically he was an alternating Jekyll and Hyde.

B.H. Liddell Hart

#3. We wasted little time wondering how anyone, even Lizzie, could nurse for five years a smoldering, mounting, murderous hate for anyone as uninteresting as Abby Borden ... we did, however, attach grave importance to Lizzie's 'peculiar spells.

Victoria Lincoln

#4. It must never be forgotten that the purpose of Alcoholics Anonymous is to sober up alcoholics. There is no religious or spiritual requirement for membership. No demands are made on anyone. An experience is offered which members may accept or reject. That is up to them.

Bill W.

#5. Of all the imaginable things he most misses about her, the thing he really wishes he could do again is hold her hand in his.

Fredrik Backman

#6. To know my responsibility
is to leave
my responsibility,
Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans
August 29, 2016

Petra Hermans

#7. Those who advocate devaluation are calling for a reduction in the wage levels and the real wage standards of every member of the working class.

James Callaghan

#8. You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.

Andrew Carnegie

#9. A face that is really lovely in repose can fall apart if, when its owner stars to talk, she distorts every feature.

Loretta Young

#10. It's when you find your life is at its lowest point that you discover who your friends truly are.

C.S. Woolley

#11. You cannot change your destination overnight. You can change your direction.
Jim Rohn

Jim Rohn

#12. Manipulations of opinion, insofar as they are inspired by well-defined interests, have limited goals; their effect, however, if they happen to touch upon an issue of authentic concern, is no longer subject to their control and may easily produce consequences they never foresaw or intended.

Hannah Arendt

#13. A fad or heresy is the exaltation of something which even if true, is secondary or temporary in its nature against those things which are essential and eternal, those things which always prove themselves true in the long run. In short, it is the setting up of the mood against the mind.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#14. As a journalist, I try to avoid talking to American diplomats, because I am stunned again and again by just how little grasp they have of what people are really feeling in a country. Especially CIA guys. Maybe they're just really good at playing stupid, but I don't think so.

Scott Anderson

#15. It was so quiet that morning in Paris that the heels of my two companions and myself were loud on the deserted pavements. It was a city of shuttered shops, and barred windows, and deserted avenues.

Philip Gibbs