"A nation must think before it acts."

-- Robert Strausz-Hupe

#Thinking Quotes

“British films are all "room with a view and a staircase and a pond."”

Source : "We Love America, and You Should, Too". Interview With James West, Ben Dreyfuss, www.motherjones.com. July 3, 2015.
“In the future, fast-fashion retailers might change their philosophy toward real efforts to create a world of their own. One can only hope.”
“I have one aimâ€”the grotesque. If I am not grotesque I am nothing.”
“The problem of dealing with the financial industry is that you can measure it with interest rates coming down. You can measure it with the quantity of loans, and that sort of thing. The problem is, that nobody wants to take the loans. Once the banks are willing to give it, that's only half the problem.”
“You're trying to make someone wet their pants and you're trying to make somebody crap in their pants. That's the motivation of a comic. Who else has that power?”
“Sitting around the house playing the wife and mother is driving me crazy.”
“I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.”

Source : Madeline Miller (2011). “The Song of Achilles”, p.126, Bloomsbury Publishing
“I prefer the hardest terms of peace to the most just war.”

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