Public employment contributes neither to advantage nor happiness. It is but honorable exile from one's family and affairs. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“She was amazed Silveny had even let them get close enough to attach the reins. Clearly she needed to teach the glittering… — Shannon Messenger Copy Share Image
What exile from himself can flee? To zones, though more and more remote, Still, still pursues, where'er I be, The blight of… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Excluded by my birth and tastes from the social order, I was not aware of its diversity. Nothing in the world was… — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
Now, my co-mates and brothers in exile, Hath not old custom made this life more sweet Than that of painted pomp? Are… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
So that this nation may long endure, I urge you to follow in the hallowed footsteps of the great disobedience of history… — Charlton Heston Copy Share Image
“As a convinced atheist, I ought to agree with Voltaire that Judaism is not just one more religion, but in its way… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Fog rolled in like a form of sorrow. To live exiled from a place you have known intimately is to experience sensory… — Gretel Ehrlich Copy Share Image
The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace liminality and adventure or continue to remain… — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
We have decided to bring to an end the most unequal, most unjust, most barbarous war of our age, and have chosen… — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
I think people like me are in a relatively privileged position because we have to some extent chosen to live in foreign… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Who knew that better than I, who had presided over the death of my own body, seeing all I called human wither… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
To deprive a gregarious creature of companionship is to maim it, to outrage its nature. The prisoner and the cenobite are aware… — John Wyndham Copy Share Image
Knowledge of ourselves teaches us whence we come, where we are and whither we are going. We come from God and we… — John of Ruysbroeck Copy Share Image
The older I get, the more I feel like an exile, that I don't belong here. And I don't. I was made… — John Corapi Copy Share Image
“Shukhov gazed at the ceiling in silence. Now he didn't know whether he wanted freedom or not. At first he'd longed for… — Alexander Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
People who think of themselves as exiles, I find, can never really put their lives together, really. — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
To be rich is to give; to give nothing is to be poor; to live is to love; to love nothing is… — Eliphas Levi Copy Share Image
If the Irish programme did not insist on the Irish language I suppose I could call myself a nationalist. As it is,… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Of all the writers I have read, Vladimir Nabokov has made the biggest impression on me because he, despite living through the… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
I'm an exile. My father had the courage to leave with his wife, his mother and three children under twelve. It took… — Andy Garcia Copy Share Image
No one who has any self-respect stays in Ireland, but flees afar as though from a country that has undergone the visitation… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
