Zaragoza Quotes

#1. the twelfth-century Song of Roland, which turns the bloody incident into a major conspiracy between the Arabs of Zaragoza and a traitor within Charlemagne's own camp.

Susan Wise Bauer

#2. In trench warfare five things are important: firewood, food, tobacco, candles, and the enemy. In winter on the Zaragoza front they were important in that order, with the enemy a bad last

George Orwell

#3. Winning peace means the triumph of our pledge to establish, on a democratic basis, a new social framework of tolerance and generosity from which no one will feel excluded.

Federico Mayor Zaragoza

#4. That calls for a witty comeback.
"Whatever," I say.

Susan Ee

#5. The road to committed faith is paved with personal abandonment and self-denial. Life ceases to be about us, and it begins to be all about God.

Craig Groeschel

#6. If you'd sat there any longer,' Annabeth said, 'you would have spontaneously combusted. I hope the conversation was worth it?

Rick Riordan

#7. Help publicly. Help privately. Help make sense where sense has gone missing. Help science to solve and faith to soothe. Help, and you will abolish apathy-the void that is so quickly filled by ignorance and evil.

Tom Hanks

#8. It is with books as with the fires of our grates, everybody borrows a light from his neighbor to kindle his own, which in turn is communicated to others, and each partakes of all.

Voltaire

#9. It is intolerable that the world's religions - founded on the values of love and compassion - should provide a pretext for the expression of hatred and violence.

Federico Mayor Zaragoza

#10. Critical remarks are only made by people who love you.

Federico Mayor Zaragoza

#11. Coming from a filmy background, I have seen everything growing up, but even at that point of time, it never really fascinated me. I did not like going to my dad's shoots. We were taught not to get carried away with it from a very young age.

Sonakshi Sinha

#12. 'Pomegranate,' started with my imagining a bullet going through the fruit and causing it to bleed. My initial associations were with pomegranates in old masters painting and their Judeo-Christian symbolism.

Ori Gersht

#13. I will not agree to have this bill [to repeal DADT ] go forward, because our economy is in the tank.

John McCain

#14. When I had an earache, my mom would piss in my ear to kill the pain,

Justin Halpern

#15. When I became my masked identity I was this incredible little nerd, but in the real world I had to be this tough kid from the neighborhood.

Junot Diaz

#16. The path toward peace is much easier than the path toward war and confrontation.

Federico Mayor Zaragoza

#17. All wickedness comes from weakness. The child is wicked only because he is weak. Make him strong; he will be good. He who could do everything would never do harm.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#18. UNESCO is the conscience of the United Nations.

Federico Mayor Zaragoza

#19. When the economy was going up, [Milton Friedman and I] both gave the same advice, and when the economy was going down, we gave the same advice. But in between he didn't change his advice at all.

Paul Samuelson