Asia Quote by Gerry Abbey Download Open image ““It was one of those striking moments in life where you find familiarity in the inexplicable.”” — Gerry Abbey ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Asia Drinking Familiarity Familiarity Inexplicable Inexplicable Life Life Familiarity Memoir Moments In Life Striking Moments Taiwan Teachers Teaching Time Travel Travel writing
“one of those twinges of surreal nostalgia that make you acutely aware of all the living you’ve done and how the choices you’ve made… — Blake Crouch Copy Share Image
“I have found that the biggest moments in life, the ones that change everything, usually catch you by surprise.” — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
“In that most mundane of actions, I had one of those moments, the kind you remember for a lifetime, the kind that slow down… — Sarah A. Denzil Copy Share Image
“There was an awful lot to be said for familiarity, if you thought about it. It was an extremely underrated virtue, ignorable until the… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“Moments caught in time. Simple memories spread out before me. Timeless reminders of how life goes on, even when it feels as if you… — Jay Long Copy Share Image
“There are a few scattered moments in one’s life when everything seems possible.” — Paul Russell Copy Share Image
“Moments are fleeting, but they can have a huge impact. The experiences we have in those moments, good and bad, are what shape who… — Carlos Whittaker Copy Share Image
“I remember the feeling of invincibility and I remember the exact moment that feeling disappeared.” — Nicole Banks Copy Share Image
“All these inexplicable events that have occurred in my life so far...it's as though they were all ingeniously programmed from the start of bringing… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Often I feel the different aspects of life bursting my mind asunder.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“I’d learned so much from traveling to familiar places that I figured I’d learn twice as much by going to a place I knew… — Gerry Abbey Copy Share Image
“And so we went. And so it went. And, slowly, I began to learn: speaking in the same language does not equal communication, especially… — Gerry Abbey Copy Share Image
“As the silence returned, I sat back and felt the tension ease away; I hadn’t even known I was tense. A few moments passed… — Gerry Abbey Copy Share Image
“I looked out again at the rising moon and I let the weight of my day, my week, lift away with the rushing wind… — Gerry Abbey Copy Share Image
“There were signs everywhere but none that I could read or even hope to decipher. These multi-lined symbols unhinged my familiar world.” — Gerry Abbey Copy Share Image
“Somehow, we were passing the boundaries of language and finding clarity in shared thought, even if we were just talking about beer!” — Gerry Abbey Copy Share Image
“My professional life had started and here I was at a professional dinner full of uninhibited drinking.” — Gerry Abbey Copy Share Image
Firstly, economic globalisation has brought prosperity and development to many countries, but also financial crises to Asia, Latin America and Russia, and increasing poverty… — Anna Lindh Copy Share Image
We have reiterated on many occasions that China wishes to establish and develop long-term, good-neighbourly and friendly relations with all countries in south Asia. — Li Peng Copy Share Image
So-called Western Civilization, as practised in half of Europe, some of Asia and a few parts of North America, is better than anything else… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
In Russia there is an emigration of intelligence: émigrés cross the frontier in order to read and to write good books. But in doing… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It has been hard to muster the resources to support fledgling democracies and to intervene on behalf of the most desperate. The AIDS orphans… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
Many of us, whether in the jungles of Asia or on the streets of Chicago, had discovered that noble causes can lead to ignoble… — Linda Grant Copy Share Image
In view of China's growing military strength and intentions, the best way to safeguard Asia's permanent peace and prosperity is to have all Asian… — Jim Costa Copy Share Image
Certainly, protecting oppressed people, stopping ethnic conflict and promoting responsible governance are worthy goals. But none is as important for American security and prosperity… — Michael Mandelbaum Copy Share Image
The evidence points to central Asia as man's original home, for the general movement of human migrations has been outward from that region and… — Ellsworth Huntington Copy Share Image
Maybe it is the last chance for Europe to influence standards for world trade. Next it will be between the US and the Asia-Pacific… — Sigmar Gabriel Copy Share Image
Countries will cooperate with each other, and are more likely to cooperate with each other when they share a common culture, as is most… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
The uniqueness of the United States in human history is the United States is the first global power in human history which emerged far… — Ahmet Davutoglu Copy Share Image