
Source: My Name is Red
Majlisi, Bihārul Anwār, vol.52, p. 238
Religious-based Quotes
Source: My Name is Red
“We are poor because our elites from way back had no sense of nation.”
“I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.”
“I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday.”
Not by Roosevelt, but from Steven Covey's Seven Habits of Highly Effective People (1989).
Misattributed
For My Legionaries: The Iron Guard (1936), Politics
“Necessity relieves us from the embarrassment of choice.”
La nécessité nous délivre de l'embarras du choix.
Maxim 592 in Reflections and Maxims (1746), as translated by F. G. Stevens.
Remarks at the launch of his book – At the Deep End http://www.zimeye.org/?p=41996&cpage=1