Looking back, I guess I used to play-act all the time. For one thing, it meant I could live in a more interesting world than the one around me.
Even under the best of circumstances, the road back from war is difficult.
Our [Russia]documents have gone on to be used in quite a number of court cases: refugee cases of people fleeing some kind of claimed political persecution in Russia, which they use our documents to back up.
Shouldn't we stand back to back or something?" "What? Why?" "I don't know. In movies that's what they do in this kind of… situation.
Just don't hold back. Don't be afraid to make mistakes and stuff.
I'm into indie music. I think indie is going to bring back the spirit in music. There was a time when it was all about accommodating the music business, the music was getting tasteless, but the spirit is back.
I was frightened to go forward, but I was even more frightened of going back.
The word feminism needs to be taken back. It needs to be reclaimed in a way that is inclusive of men.
Never loan a book to someone if you expect to get it back. Loaning books is the same as giving them away.
When I was in college, I spent a summer working in London. I'd enjoyed tea before that, but then I got actual, really good tea there and never looked back.
Spring was coming back with the old promise, demanding the old sacrifice.
I'm always tinkering with something - suddenly I'll think I can work with wood, but then I'll realize I can't, so I go back to sewing.
From Iraq to Guantanamo Bay, international standards and the framework of international law are being given less when they should be given more importance. I am pleased that the courts in the United States are beginning to review what has happened to those detained in Guantanamo Bay. Similarly in Iraq we need to bring our strategies back within the framework of international norms and law.
Sometimes you have to travel back in time, skirting the obstacles, in order to love someone.
I believe that with great wealth comes great responsibility, a responsibility to give back to society and a responsibility to see that those resources are put to work in the best possible way to help those most in need.
Do what is necessary to be resilient. You will get knocked down. What matters is that you get back up.
All our experience with history should teach us, when we look back, how badly human wisdom is betrayed when it relies on itself
Just because your triceps have fallen behind your biceps, doesn't mean you should back off your triceps workouts.
Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.
I don't really take a step back too often to see what's going on