#were

I never felt at home in London, because people were constantly telling me I didn't belong here, so after a while, you tend to believe that. ↗

— Naveen Andrews

#because #believe #belong #constantly #felt

The place was crawling with youngsters. It was good, because the kids were good. I can't make a general assumption. Again, you're probably getting, as a general theme from me, that I don't make a lot of broad, sweeping rules about movies. ↗

— Adam Arkin

#again #assumption #because #broad #crawling

I have been further enlightened by the conversation and correspondence of some illustrious Italians, whom I would gladly name, were I not afraid of exposing them to danger. ↗

— Edmond About

#been #conversation #correspondence #danger #enlightened

Even before 9/11 I was gripped by a sense of dread: our lack of criticism about what we were doing in the Middle East - the slagging off of a whole religious tradition. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#before #criticism #doing #dread #east

In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted to carry weapons, to swat an insect or speak an angry word, a discipline that introduced them to a new way of living. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#any #carry #city #discipline #forbidden

There is a danger in monotheism, and it's called idolatry. And we know the prophets of Israel were very, very concerned about idolatry, the worship of a human expression of the divine. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#called #concerned #danger #divine #expression

Think how different human societies would be if they were based on love rather than justice. But no such societies have ever existed on earth. ↗

— Mortimer Adler

#different #earth #ever #existed #how

It actually took me a year to learn how to play running back - to understand what they were doing defensively and then what our guys were doing every single play. ↗

— Marcus Allen

#back #defensively #doing #every #guys

It came as a great shock to me when I heard that England and Soviet Russia had become allies. So much so that I thought that the people responsible in London were acting in a manner that no longer coincided with British imperial interests. ↗

— John Amery

#allies #become #british #came #england

By the late '70s I had come to question the point of a great deal of what we were doing, in terms of the CIA's overall charter. ↗

— Aldrich Ames

#cia #come #deal #doing #great