Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.
- Lawrence DurrellThe Russian drama began at the end of 1991, when the Soviet Union mercifully ended. Russia and 14 other new countries emerged from the ruins of the Soviet Union. Every one of those 15 new states faced a profound historical, economic, financial, social and political challenge.
- Jeffrey SachsThe power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection.
- Abhinav BindraFour years of world war, at a cost in human suffering which our minds are mercifully too limited to imagine, led to the very clear realization that international anarchy must be abandoned if civilization was to survive.
- Al Edwardsmercifully given her no publicity.
- Astrid van Genderen Stort