“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
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
My father was a professor of political science and also a young politician fighting for democracy in Kenya, and when things got… — Lupita Nyong'o 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
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
If writing a novel is a year's exile to a foreign country, writing a short story is a weekend spent somewhere exotic.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“How ironic that when they’d been married, she’d never thought of growing old with him. Yet now, years after the annulment, she… — Sherry Thomas Copy Share Image
The politics of the exile are fever, revenge, daydream, theater of the aging convalescent. You wait in the wings and rehearse. You… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
“And the view was suddenly clear to me. The world opened out to its grim beyonds and I realized that, at forty,… — Kevin Barry Copy Share Image
Every immigrant family, it seems, has someone who does not belong in the new country they have come to. It feels like… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“You have asked me what I would do and what I would not do. I will not serve that in which I… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
The school was nothing but reminiscence - of an Italian hill town, a French abbey, an English academy, the different sources improbably… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
I remember many years ago, I asked [Dalai Lama] about exile and he said: "Well, exile is good because it's brought me… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
“My country is handed over from one tyrant to the next, a worse tyrant; from one prison to another, from one exile… — Abdullah Al Baradouni Copy Share Image
“Look here, Cranly, he said. You have asked me what I would do and what I would not do. I will tell… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Although the history of dispossession and exile for Jews is very different from the history of dispossession and exile for Palestinians, they… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I think the only positive thing that came from Uruguays dictatorship was the spread of Montevideo natives around the world, and I… — Mario Benedetti Copy Share Image
Our kingdom is our life, and our life is our kingdom. We are all meant to rule from a glorious place. When… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
I am Patrick, yes a sinner and indeed untaught; yet I am established here in Ireland where I profess myself bishop. I… — Saint Patrick Copy Share Image
They have exiled me now from their society and I am pleased, because humanity does not exile except the one whose noble… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
I stand as I always have with the Cuban people who love, cherish and celebrate liberty. Hard-working, helpful people who open their… — Andy Garcia 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
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
[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
In 1994, when I went back to Haiti from exile, we established a Commission for Truth and Justice and Reconciliation. I passed… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide 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
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
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
“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
All writers--all beings--are exiles as a matter of course. The certainty about living is that it is a succession of expulsions of… — Janet Frame 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
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
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
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
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 grieve for you, how I mourn for you, who are so very dear to me, but again I can rejoice within… — Saint Patrick 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
![“I remember many years ago, I asked [Dalai Lama] about exile and he said: "Well, exile is good because it's brought me and my people closer to reality," and reality is almost a shrine before which he sits. Exile brings us up against the wall and forces us to rise to the challenge of the moment.” quote by Pico Iyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/987/pico-iyer-1252_challenges_i-remember-many-years-ago-i-asked-dalai_2163417.jpg)
![“[To Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, on his return from self-imposed exile, occasioned by the embarrassing flatulence he had experienced in the presence of the Queen:] My Lord, I had forgot the fart.” quote by Elizabeth I](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/70f/elizabeth-i-3475_embarrassing_to-edward-de-vere-earl-of-oxford-on-his_732567.jpg)
![“[About Jews] By nature we are like all other human beings, yet our people is unlike others, because our life is different, our history is different, our teacher is the Exile.” quote by I. L. Peretz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a2d/i-l-peretz-22812_different_about-jews-by-nature-we-are-like-all-oth_352476.jpg)
