11 quotes found
“You have no future when the past rules you.”
“We had laid down the law : no chocolate, no sex.”
“They march into the future to the rhythm of the past.”
“I think that everyone has something that they will kill for.”
“Once they have dedicated themselves to a cause, women will fight to the end for it.”
“If peace came it would have to do so when there had been time to allow the hatred to grow out of peoples thinking.”
“It is one of the benchmarks of a culture I always think the page at which it operates. A good way to measure it is to order a taxi and see how irate local people get if it is late.”
“There were so many wrongs piling up on both sides, so much of the past being dragged into the present, that living there was like carving the story of your life on to a sepulchral monument.”
“Its not until youre older that you realise how important the things that happened to you when you were a kid are. Even things you only half remember.”
“You became the sum total of where you lived, where you shopped, which church you went to, how many kids you had and which taxi company you used, and you only associated with people who had the same...”
“I had never really understood what an adventure life could be, if you followed your heart and did what you really wanted to do, which is what we must all do in the end.”
