All Quotes

"When I die, I want to come back as a butterfly, just to follow around the people I love. I'll land right on their hand. Not their arm, not their... their head, right on their fingertip, so they know it's me."

"From now on, if he lands a philosophical point that we don’t agree with, we challenge him. We make him think. He doesn’t have to steamroll us. We might not be a physical threat, but we can be an intellectual one."

"[to Mr. Reed] Praying…doesn’t work. Have you ever heard of the Great Prayer Experiment? They divided patients into groups. Those who received prayers and those who didn’t. The results of the study were conclusive. It doesn’t work. But I think it’s beautiful that we all pray for each other…even though we all probably know it doesn’t make a difference. It’s just nice to think about someone other than yourself. Even if it’s you."

"Hugh Grant - Mr. Reed"

"Sophie Thatcher - Sister Barnes"

"Chloe East - Sister Paxton"

"Topher Grace - Elder Kennedy"

"There was a time that I would have wished you dead but your shame shall be your torture and your torture will be your life! I wish it to be long."

"If only my hand could express, what is in my heart."

"Brad Pitt as Heinrich Harrer"

"David Thewlis as Peter Aufschnaiter"

"BD Wong as Ngapoi Ngawang Jigme"

"Mako as Tsarong"

"Danny Denzongpa as Regent"

"Victor Wong as Chinese 'Amban'"

"Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė as Ingrid Harrer"

"Jamyang Jamtsho Wangchuk as Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso, 14 years old"

"Lhakpa Tsamchoe as Pema Lhaki"

"Jetsun Pema as The Great Mother"

"Ama Ashe Dongtse as Tashi"

"Ric Young as General Chang Jing Wu"

"Ven Ngawang Chojor as Lord Chamberlain"

"Duncan Fraser as British Officer"

"People want to know the truth, not to seek revenge or cultivate hatred, but to better honor their dead. We encourage all human rights activities that give an objective look at the events that have occurred in this part of the Democratic Republic of Congo, from the past to the present day. Remembering our dead, asking for justice and reparation is the best way to promote sincere reconciliation so that these murders, both mass and individual, never take place again."

"A fatalistic and partial vision of the Gospel leads some to see in everything that happens a will of God, even a punishment; others to think that God will do everything for us. This is not the case. The Catholic Church feels within her and shares the cry of the Congolese people, and wants with all her might to stop the bloodshed of so many innocent people."

"Pietism produced some beneficial results. In the subjective bias of the whole movement, however, there lay from the beginning the danger of many abuses. It often degenerated into fanaticism, with alleged prophecies, visions, and mystical states."

"The main thing that seems to be needed is some stabilizing force in the call-money market, and, if I may be permitted the suggestion, it might be possible to find this force in some method of concerted action by lenders of money in which the bankers' clearing-house might play a part. I am not prepared with a plan and shall not presume to make suggestions as to details, but there does not seem to me to be any fundamental difficulty in adjusting the daily supplies of call money to the daily needs without unrestricted competition on both sides, and without wild fluctuations in money rates, which are a perennial source of amazement, and, I fear, contempt, to our foreign banking friends."

"What we do with MEGA is we adapt the games to the local climates and it’s very easy because it comes from casual gaming."

"I remember the feeling of hunger the most. Not just the physical hunger I felt as a kid, but the deep hunger to change my life. I wanted to escape the grayness that surrounded me, to replace it with something bright, meaningful, and full of color and purpose."

"Most people think that business drives charity initiatives, but for me, charity drives business pushing it forward."

"We want to ensure Jewish children and families worldwide have the opportunity to connect to Jewish tradition and identity."

"If it is ever documented conclusively, the genetic inferiority of a race on a trait as important as intelligence will rank with the atomic bomb as the most destructive scientific discovery in human history. The correct conclusion is to withhold judgment."

"When the theoretical questions are properly understood, proponents of race science, while entitled to their freedom of inquiry and expression, deserve the vigorous disapprobation they often receive."

"One of the great comic novels of the 20th century"

"Bapsi Sidhwa's voice - comic, serious, subtle, always sprightly, is an important one to hear."

"One of the finest responses made to the horror of the division of the subcontinent."

"Why don’t we accept racial stereotypes as reasonable hypotheses, okay to consider until they have been scientifically proven false? They are offensive precisely because they violate our intuition about the balance between innateness and self-determination of the moral and cultural qualities of human beings. No reasonable person would be offended by the observation that Africans have curlier hair than the Chinese, notwithstanding the possibility of some future environment in which it is no longer true. But we can recognize a contention that Chinese people are genetically predisposed to be better table-tennis players than Africans as silly, and the contention that they are smarter than Africans as ugly, because it is a matter of ethical principle that individual and cultural accomplishment is not tied to the genes in the same way as the appearance of our hair."

"It seems really as if the Phoenician coast was further away from us than the Iranian plateau. ... That the Phoenicians occupied Carthage and possessed half Tunisia only concerns Africa. That the Carthaginians in their turn conquered Spain and three-quarters of Sicily is [all right because they are] only, as we say, Africa. But when we find Phoenician traces at Marseilles, Praeneste, Kythera, Salamis Thasos and Samothrace, in Boiotia and in Lakonia at Rhodes and in Crete we do not want, as in Africa, real occupations; we only talk about temporary landings or simple trading posts ... If we go as far as pronouncing the words fortresses or Phoenician possessions we hasten to add that they were only coastal establishments ... This European chauvinism becomes a veritable fanaticism when it is not in Gaul, Etruria, Lucania or Thrace but in Greece that we meet the stranger. ... We see, nevertheless, from their material and tangible monuments that the Greeks ... were the pupils of Phoenicia and Egypt, and we see that they borrowed from the Semitic Orient right up to their alphabet; yet we recoil with some shock at the sacrilegious hypothesis that their institutions, their customs, their religions, their rituals, their ideas, their literature and all their primitive civilization could also be inherited from the Orient."

"May blessings be upon the head of Cadmus, or the Phoenician, or whoever it was that invented books!"

"Had it not been for waves of continental invaders, Assyrians, Babylonians and Persians and the destruction of Phoenician libraries, we may have been talking more of our debt to Phoenicians and Greeks rather than Greeks only, but Greece was to survive due to its geography and tenacity of its people."

"Phlebas the Phoenician, a fortnight dead, Forgot the cry of gulls, and the deep sea swell And the profit and loss. A current under sea Picked his bones in whispers. As he rose and fell He passed the stages of his age and youth Entering the whirlpool. Gentile or Jew O you who turn the wheel and look to windward, Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you."

"These Phoenicians who came with Cadmus and of whom the Gephyraeans were a part brought with them to Hellas, among many other kinds of learning, the alphabet, which had been unknown before this, I think, to the Greeks. As time went on the sound and the form of the letters were changed. At this time the Greeks who were settled around them were for the most part Ionians, and after being taught the letters by the Phoenicians, they used them with a few changes of form. In so doing, they gave to these characters the name of Phoenician, as was quite fair seeing that the Phoenicians had brought them into Greece."

"You older types are mired in the minds you grew up with, a real handicap in a rapidly changing universe. The future is a game for the young and the hungry—I’m five months old myself, and on the cutting edge."

"“Altruism can be surprisingly gratifying,” it remarked. “No wonder humans dabble with it.”"

"Of late a decided reaction has set in against the popular theory of the great influence exercised by the Phoenicians on Greece, which is perfectly justifiable, but it is not always to the point. The real reason why people contest the existence of Phoenicians in Greece is that they object to make the Greeks indebted to Phoenicia for anything of importance. We believe we have proved that the widespread influence ascribed to them ... originates solely in caprice. But why should there be a reluctance to admit the existence of mere settlements of Phoenicians in Greece, when supported by historical criteria which are considered valid in other cases? Phoenicians were once there, but their influence was inconsiderable."

"Then began he to upbraid the cities wherein most of his mighty works were done, because they repented not: "Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works, which were done in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes. But I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the day of judgment, than for you.""

"And king Solomon sent and fetched Hiram out of Tyre. He was a widow’s son of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in brass: and he was filled with wisdom, and understanding, and cunning to work all works in brass. And he came to king Solomon, and wrought all his work."

"Quinquireme of Nineveh from distant Ophir Rowing home to haven in sunny Palestine, With a cargo of ivory, And apes and peacocks, Sandalwood, cedarwood, and sweet white wine."

"The Carthaginians, like the Phoenicians from which they came, appear to have been a people who were hard and sad, sensual and greedy, and adventurous without heroism. ... at Carthage too the religion was atrocious and full of frightful practices."

"And the daughter of Tyre shall be there with a gift."