The Opposition aren't really the Opposition. They're just called the Opposition. But in fact they are the Opposition in exile. The Civil… — Antony Jay Copy Share Image
What can my enemies do to me? My paradise is in my heart, it is with me wherever I go. To imprison… — Ibn Taymiyyah Copy Share Image
Every now and again it would be considered wholesome for me to be more with people of my own age. Demotion to… — Miles Franklin Copy Share Image
Over there, in Europe, all was shame and anger. Here it was exile or solitude, among these languid and agitated madmen who… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
One of the things that people sense is that you are not doing this for self-glorification, you are doing it for the… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
We all carry within us places of exile, our crimes, our ravages. Our task is not to unleash them on the world;… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Exile is not a material thing, it is a spiritual thing. All corners of the earth are exactly the same. And anywhere… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
It appears that with the deadline for exile come and gone, Saddam Hussein has chosen to make military force the ultimate weapons… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
So it is that God tugs at a pilgrim's sleeve telling him to remember that he is only human. He must be… — Sheldon B. Kopp Copy Share Image
Human skin is porous; the world flows through you. Your senses are large pores that let the world in. By being attuned… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
Scots are born exiles, and Scotland the perfect country to be exiled from. Do not imagine that I am running down Scotland.… — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
We need a more complex understanding of writers working under authoritarian or repressive regimes. Something to replace this simpleminded, Cold War-ish equation… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
“There's a certain amount of ambiguity in my background, what with intermarriages and conversions, but under various readings of three codes which… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The assumption that the larger culture agrees with Christians on values issues led to evangelicals' minimizing the theologically distinctive aspects of Christian… — Russell D. Moore Copy Share Image
Maya Jasanoff's Liberty's Exiles places the loyalist experience and the aftermath of the American Revolution in an entirely new light. Alongside the… — Sean Wilentz Copy Share Image
Through centuries of struggle, Jews across the world have been witnesses not only against the crimes of men, but for faith in… — George W. Bush 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
The perpetuation of slavery, the exile and extermination of American Indians, and the passage of Jim Crow laws weren't carried out at… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
We live in an era where masses of people come and go across a hostile planet, desolate and violent. Refugees, emigrants, exiles,… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
As it stands, motherhood is a sort of wilderness through which each woman hacks her way, part martyr, part pioneer; a turn… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
“It appears that we've given up on the long-range view. That we've decided not to think about consequences—about cause and effect. Maybe… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
[Albert Camus] really did know Algeria. He was an exile from his country, but still living in its language. Solitaire et solidaire.… — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
I had severed relations with the Romanian exiles who had become politically conservative and even extremely right wing; I was giving chess… — Dumitru Tepeneag Copy Share Image
“Long exile from Christendom and civilization inevitably restores a man to that condition in which God placed him, i.e. what is called… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Plant gardens in your exile, work for the good of the city, and don't be so caught up in the "not yet"… — Sarah Bessey 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
“My sisters and I sit together on a pair of suitcases. If we've forgotten anything, it's already too late -- our rooms… — Sarah Miller Copy Share Image
One's emotions are intensified in Paris—one can be more happy and also more unhappy here than in any other place. But it… — Nancy Mitford Copy Share Image
What, then, is that incalculable feeling that deprives the mind of the sleep necessary to life? A world that can be explained… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
What can you do with me? My jannah is in my heart! If you take me to jail, I will make zikr… — Ibn Taymiyyah Copy Share Image
“Never say that you can't do something, or that something seems impossible, or that something can't be done, no matter how discouraging… — Mike Norton Copy Share Image
Vain are the beliefs and teachings that make man miserable, and false is the goodness that leads him into sorrow and despair,… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Why had we let it go? Why had we both been condemned...to an exile among dreary strangers who had made us give… — Ayn Rand 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
“What the eyes don’t see, the heart doesn’t grieve over.’ Well, I say that there isn’t an ounce of truth in it.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I have a sense of exile from thought, a nostalgia of the quiet room and balanced mind. I am a writer, and… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“As to what that exile and that longing for reunion meant, Rieux had no idea. But as he walked ahead, jostled on… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
When the Irishman is found outside of Ireland in another environment, he very often becomes a respected man. The economic and intellectual… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
I thought of New York as a free city, like one of those prewar nests of intrigue and licentiousness where exiles and… — Luc Sante Copy Share Image
“I,” he said, a faint note of derision in his voice, “am the least favored scion of our ruling house, House Mara… — P.J. Fox Copy Share Image