No authority is higher than reality.

I was taken to a villa to meet Sabri al-Banna, known as 'Abu Nidal' ('father of struggle'), who was at the time emerging as one of Yasser Arafat's main enemies. The meeting began inauspiciously when Abu Nidal asked me if I would like to be trained in one of his camps. No thanks, I explained. From this awkward beginning there was a further decline. I was then asked if I knew Said Hammami, the envoy of the PLO in London. I did in fact know him. He was a brave and decent man, who in a series of articles in the London had floated the first-ever trial balloon for a two-state solution in Israel/Palestine. 'Well tell him he is a traitor,' barked my host. 'And tell him we have only one way with those who betray us.' The rest of the interview passed as so many Middle Eastern interviews do: too many small cups of coffee served with too much fuss; too many unemployed heavies standing about with nothing to do and nobody to do it with; too much ugly furniture, too many too-bright electric lights; and much too much . The only political fact I could winnow, from Abu Nidal's vainglorious claims to control X number of 'fighters' in Y number of countries, was that he admired the People's Republic of China for not recognizing the State of Israel. I forget how I got out of his office.

Christopher Hitchens

To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.

George MacDonald

Like great works, deep feelings always mean more than they are conscious of saying.

Albert Camus

My dream career would be to be in things that have real heart and are telling real stories but while doing that, you're getting really big laughs. I don't necessarily love the straight crazy comedies. 'Caddyshack' is amazing, but there's not a lot of new 'Caddyshack's.

Jake Johnson

Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

My job is never work -- the only time it seems like work is when I'd rather be doing something else.

Source Unknown

At noise, if you want to listen to any meaning of it; Just open your mind, and your heart will find something... it always find something.

Suka

A good author possesses not only his own intellect, but also that of his friends

Friedrich Nietzsche

Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.

Paulo Coelho

f u cn rd ths, u cn gt a gd jb n cmptr prgmmng.

Anon.

In addition to the research, I enjoyed learning French and assimilating the culture of another country.

James Cronin

I hate thinking about it, teaching about it, and writing about it. But the plain truth is that hell is real and real people go there for eternity.

Bill Hybels