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Us Quotes by Azar Nafisi
- That, of course, is what great works of imagination do for us: They make us a little restless, destabilize us, question our preconceived notions and…
- The best work of literature to represent the American Dream is 'The Great Gatsby' by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It shows us how dreaming can be…
- There is little consolation in the fact that millions of people are unhappier than we are. Why should other people's misery make us happier or…
- Most great works of the imagination were meant to make you feel like a stranger in your own home. The best fiction always forced us…
- Memories have ways of becoming independent of the reality they evoke. They can soften us against those we were deeply hurt by or they can…
- A novel is not moral in the usual sense of the word. It can be called moral when it shakes us out of our stupor…
- None of us can avoid being contaminated by the world's evils; it's all a matter of what attitude you take towards them.
- The novels were an escape from reality in the sense that we could marvel at their beauty and perfection. Curiously, the novels we escaped into…
- I no longer believe that we can keep silent. We never really do, mind you. In one way or another we articulate what has happened…
More Us Quotes
- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave. — Mahmoud Abbas
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. — Karen Armstrong