Quotes from Glenn Meade

his memory flooded with pain for all the hurts and wrongs that had been done in the name of God. As always, he would pray for forgiveness and the redemption of that pain.

It took many months of scouring the mental hospitals of Europe, until finally they settled on a suitable candidate. The woman the world eventually came to know as Anna Anderson. She matched their criteria in terms of looks, and certain bodily features, like her ears and feet, that she shared with Anastasia. "Scars were deliberately inflicted on her skull during surgery, to be consistent with wounds Anastasia suffered

it was a case of making an impressionable, mentally ill woman believe that she was Anastasia Romanov. Their deception began with Anna Anderson's supposed suicide attempt in a Berlin canal, and her amazing story was born." "Anna Anderson was a decoy?" "Pure and simple. To deflect the world from the truth.

whenever we're offered love, we should accept it. Wherever we encounter tenderness, we should embrace it.

disregarding maintenance schedules and failing to adhere to regulators and manufacturers regulations are other surreptitious ways of saving money. 

children not allocated their own seat do not appear in listed victim numbers in airline crash statistics.

Whatever begins to exist has a cause.

I am reminded of the query made about man's inhumanity to man in the concentration camps. The question was asked: At Auschwitz, tell me, where was God? And the answer came: Where was man? For it was men alone who did this evil. Not God or religion or men acting in the name of God or religion. But simply men.

the way we ignore the suffering of others and close our ears to their cries of pain. The way we disrespect our fellow man and are selfish for our own needs. Much of human suffering is avoidable. But a righteous path has a high price, and many are not prepared to pay that price.

A hundred years ago, it could take you the better part of a year to get from New York to California; whereas today, because of equipment problems at O'Hare, you can't get there at all." Dave Barry

Lenin promised freedom and liberty, and yet I and countless others are in chains. He swore he'd rid this country of the secret police, yet he creates his own. That isn't a man I can trust.

It's always a question of the human heart, isn't it? How do we live? What do we do? How do we know what's right or wrong? I came here to pray for guidance, I suppose. I feel a little lost, and maybe more than a little afraid.

And for some reason I thought how potent a creation love is - that although sometimes it exists for just a brief, glorious moment in our lives, the ghost of its giving and taking often weaves such an intricate pattern opon our souls, as delicate as lace, as strong as steel. That its spirit is something far too powerful for us mere humans to understand.

You do have my faith. We all have it in us. In some it's simply buried deeper than others. But we all hear the echo of God's voice.

The Vatican has a reputation for secrecy and intrigue. If I have my way, that will cease. But in any large organization there are always groups who seek to have their way with power and cunning.

Truth and love do not need walls. Christ did not build walls. He tore them down. And he prayed, not in lofty, beautiful churches but in people's homes

years ago one of the translators working on the original Dead Sea scrolls, Professor Schonfeld, discovered a recurring cipher in some texts. A hidden language, if you like. He called it the Atbash Cipher. Ever heard of it?" Savage nodded. "Sure. I thought it was found in scrolls written in Hebrew." "It seems it may occur in Aramaic texts too.

What happens in the heart, simply happens. But sometimes real love calls us to a higher duty. We have to do what's right, and not always what we desire.

What was it Chekhov once said? 'We live for love, and for hope and dreams, and for the small things that please us and for little else.

What was it Chekhov once said? 'We live for love, and for hope and dreams, and for the small things that please us and for little else.' It would be pleasant too if the snow was gone and it was spring again.

Because aircraft spares are incredibly expensive, and in the case of older aircraft hard to source, the black-market in aviation spares is highly profitable. One head of a counterfeit parts ring said she had moved on from distributing drugs to aircraft parts, simply because it was much more lucrative.

I have found that the average Russian holds the United States and the American people in very high regard. Many Russians also remain deeply religious people—communism never managed to purge their faith.

I've learned enough about human nature to know that behind anger or bitterness or hurt there's always a wound, or fear, or frustration.

always felt like an outsider, ever since I was a child and my family moved around so much. Some people thought I was privileged, maybe even spoiled, but really I wasn't. I was just lonely, and never truly felt at home anywhere. Until I met Sean. For the first time in my life I felt connected to another human being." She hesitated, emotion welling in her. "There's an old Irish saying: 'May I know you until the end of my days.' That was how I felt about him.