Norman Davies Quotes

For people familiar with Eastern Europe, Marci Shore's 'The Taste of Ashes' is, in spite of its subject matter, delicious. A professor at Yale with much experience in Eastern Europe, she writes with great sureness of touch, weaving personal recollections with intellectual commentary and ideas with emotions, including her own.

Norman Davies

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Violence is always the last option, but if that time comes, it is the ONLY option.

John Gilmour

TimeViolenceAlwaysLastOnly

My films don't give you an easy ride. I can see that. The sense I get is that people have quite a physical experience with them. They feel afterwards that they've really been through something.

Andrea Arnold

ExperienceRidePeopleFeelYouSee

There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit.

Stephen Leacock

PeopleInformationConversationWit

I'm black. I'm Latina. My mom is Cuban. Afro-Cuban. My dad is white and Australian.

Soledad O'Brien

MomBlackWhiteLatinaAustralian

Whenever I do the sign of the cross, it always brings comfort in situations when you are faced with adversity and stress.

Troy Polamalu

AdversityStressYouComfortAlways

I don't remember a Rob Van Dam versus Mick Foley hardcore match. There should have been one.

Rob Van Dam

RememberBeenMatchDamShouldVan

Love of country, subordination of personal interests to the common good, concern and care for the helpless and the impoverished - these are among the lost and faded values that we seek to recover and revitalize as we commence our journey towards a better Philippines.

Rodrigo Duterte

LoveGoodJourneyCareBetterLost

There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.

Mary Wilson Little

FunDoingNothingPleasureHaving

The spin overwhelms the substance. That's very clearly what happened.

Joseph C. Wilson

ClearlySpinSubstanceHappenedVery

That's my biggest struggle, is maintaining a personal romantic relationship. It takes a lot of effort.

Chelsea Handler

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Alien abduction movies are always the scariest; no matter how cheesy they are, they still scare me for a week. I live by myself in my apartment, and I don't worry about intruders or robbery; I mostly worry about alien abduction or evil, mean ghosts.

Claire Coffee

LiveMyselfMeEvilWorryWeek

I have a lot of self-belief.

Brooks Koepka

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