It's been the most astonishing year because I've been having a marvelous adventure, and yet I kind of sympathize with people who… — Richard Griffiths Copy Share Image
To hope is to see with the eye of the heart. To hope is to make the heart captain the vital and… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
“Knight, of course, felt that anyone's willing assistance tainted the whole thing. Either you are hidden or you're not, no middle ground.… — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
We try to exile ourselves more and more from nature - not always consciously: We build houses; we dismiss nature; nature has… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
I think there is a heritage which I'm proud of, which is a fight for democracy, a fight for social justice, a… — George Papandreou Copy Share Image
If we live with possibilities we are exiles from the present which is given us by God to be our own, homeless… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“Books were my church but even more my native land, my place of refuge, my DP camp. I was an exile early… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
...I will exile my thoughts if they think of you again, and I will rip my lips out if they say your… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
“Of all the events leading up to the departure for the shore, though, was one that had been months in the making.… — Don Jacobson Copy Share Image
My first few weeks in America are always miserable, because the tastes I am cursed with are all of a kind that… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
The act of writing is for me often nothing more than the secret or conscious desire to carve words on a tombstone:… — Elie Wiesel 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
“and one knows, after a long time of solitude, after the many steps taken away from one's kind, toward the kingdom of… — Galway Kinnell Copy Share Image
In turning away from beauty, we turn away from all that is wholesome and true, and deliver ourselves into an exile where… — John O'Donohue 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
We abandon the most important journey of our lives when we abandon desire. We leave our hearts by the side of the… — John Eldredge Copy Share Image
Here in Spain, there are Argentine Jews, children and grandchildren of immigrants of Jews who fled Germany or Austria in the thirties,… — Antonio Munoz Molina Copy Share Image
“I will not be like a bird bred in a cage, I thought, too dull to fly even when the door stands… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
“she'd figured out how to steer Silveny by teaching her simple commands like left and right and if you dump me into… — Shannon Messenger Copy Share Image
New Living Translation And work for the peace and prosperity of the city where I sent you into exile. Pray to the… — Jeremiah Copy Share Image
From love one can only escape at the price of life itself; and no lessening of sorrow is worth exile from that… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
Virtue is shut out from no one; she is open to all, accepts all, invites all, gentlemen, freedmen, slaves, kings, and exiles;… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
When the Jewish people, after nearly 2,000 years of exile, under relentless persecution, became a nation again on 14 May 1948 the… — Hal Lindsey Copy Share Image
I saw you with your envoy A consenting adult Technique in moderation But vogue to the cult Me I've got my strangers… — Melissa Etheridge Copy Share Image
The realization that he is white in a black country, and respected for it, is the turning point in the expatriate's career.… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
Shall I tell you what supported me through all those years of exile among a people whose language I could not understand… — David Livingstone Copy Share Image
Poetry, in the past, was the center of our society, but with modernity it has retreated to the outskirts. I think the… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
I'm interested in people who find themselves in places, either of their choosing or not, and who are forced to decide how… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
Terry Farish seems to breathe the reader into the emotional spaces of war, exile, and refugee life. The Good Braider is a… — Uma Krishnaswami Copy Share Image
By engaging in a delusive quest for happiness, we bring only suffering upon ourselves. In our frantic search for something to quench… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
If you don't belong somewhere, that outsider status you have gives you perspective. Of course, another word for outsider is 'exile,' and… — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
“But if there is no cosmic Plan? What a mockery, to live in exile when no one sent you there. Exile from… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“For many people, the expression “disconnecting from the world” essentially means disconnecting from society—for this is the only world they know.” — Sov8840 Copy Share Image
The revision of the books of Judges, Samuel, and Kings, undertaken towards the end of the Babylonian exile, a revision much more… — Julius Wellhausen Copy Share Image
[To Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, on his return from self-imposed exile, occasioned by the embarrassing flatulence he had experienced in… — Elizabeth I 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
[About Jews] By nature we are like all other human beings, yet our people is unlike others, because our life is different,… — I. L. Peretz Copy Share Image
I believe if I should die, And you should kiss my eyelids where I lie Cold, dead, and dumb to all the… — Mary Ashley Townsend Copy Share Image
History has tongues Has angels has guns has saved has praised Today proclaims Achievements of her exiles long returned Now no more… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
Pursuing employment or climatic relief, we live in voluntary exile from our extended families and our longer past, but in an involuntary… — John Thorn Copy Share Image