Quote by Lionel Shriver Download Open image ““Bur Armenians have a talent for sorrow.”” — Lionel Shriver ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“History has never been fair to the Armenians and it is too late to start being so now” — Colin McEvedy Copy Share Image
“An offering for the sake of offering, perhaps. Anyhow, it was her gift. Nothing else had she of the slightest importance; could not think,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
With faith and courage, generations of Armenians have overcome great suffering and proudly preserved their culture, traditions, and religion and have told the story… — Jerry Costello Copy Share Image
“Being an Armenian is a merciless task and a heroic enterprise. It is a commandment, a mission, and a destiny that history has imposed… — Keri Topouzian Copy Share Image
We need not fear the judgement of history. Who, after all, speaks today of the extermination of the Armenians? — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
It would be difficult, perhaps, to find the annals of a nation less stained with crimes than those of the Armenians, whose virtues have… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
“She is the centre of my world. The Armenians believed that Ararat was the centre of the world; but the mountain was divided between… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
The salvation of the country requires the elimination of the Armenians — Talaat Pasha Copy Share Image
Our strength lies in our intensive attacks and our barbarity...After all, who today remembers the genocide of the Armenians? — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
“In the same way, whenever a massacre of Armenians is reported from Asia Minor, every one assumes that it has been carried out "under… — Saki Copy Share Image
“Some Committee?” she asked, as he opened the door. “Armenians,” he said; or perhaps it was “Albanians.” And there is a dignity in people;… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“What matters is the need to move from the rigidity of national stereotypes towards something more truly human; what matters is to discover the… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
The discovery that heartbreak is indeed heartbreaking consoles us about our humanity. — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“I’m a journalist, and journalists need news. Deprive them of it, and they go a bit barking. Deprive them of news long enough, and… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“One of the things I learned with Charles," said Gray carefully, "was that finding someone like you does not necessarily mean that either of… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
In the particular dwells the tawdry. In the conceptual dwells the grand, the transcendent, the everlasting. Earthly countries and single malignant boys can go… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“The idea is that you don't only have one destiny. Younger and younger, kids are pressed to decide what they want to do with… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
Oddly, for a book to do well merely because people like it is surprisingly rare. — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“And there's a freedom in apathy, a wild, dizzying liberation on which you can almost get drunk.” — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
The sign that I don't like the book I'm reading is finding myself watching reruns of 'Come Dine With Me.' — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
We speak often of 'destroying the planet' when what we mean is destroying its habitability for humans. — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
My agent had warned that, while a fine film would do my profile a world of good, a bad one wouldn't help me at… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“I think that's the biggest favor you can grant anyone, don't you? Permission to be dull. I know Henry will sometimes say something so… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“They were determined to find something mechanically wrong with him - because broken machines are easier to fix. p303” — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image