"For him , life was a coin that had disaster on one side and waiting for disaster on the other"

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Source : J.R. Ward (2008). “Lover Enshrined: A Novel of The Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.72, Penguin

J.R. Ward

#Waiting Quotes #Coins Quotes #Sides Quotes

“I am making this statement as an act of wilful defiance of military authority, because I believe that the War is being deliberately prolonged by those who have the power to end it. I am a soldier, convinced that I am acting on behalf of soldiers. I believe that this War, on which I entered as a war of defence and liberation, has now become a war of aggression and conquest.”

Source : Siegfried Sassoon (1983). “Siegfried Sassoon's long journey: selections from the Sherston memoirs”, Oxford University Press, USA
“Inspiration in Science may have to do with ideas, but not in Art. In art it is in the senses that are instinctively responsive to the medium of expression.”

Source : Speech to McGill University School of Architecture, www.arthurerickson.com. October 21, 2000.
“Everyone in the Lotus Eaters is so concerned with appearances, but there's an emptiness under the surface that they're trying to ignore. We talked about the theme of perception versus reality a lot with mirrors and masks what people were wearing - and we shot on two formats; we shot it on film and on digital, and a lot of the night-time scenes are film, and it looks better, and people can put on a mask and they can go out there and show an artifice to the world.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“If I wanted to pitch that bad, I probably would. But I don't think I'm in that stage.”
“Though the last glimpse of Erin with sorrow I see, Yet wherever thou art shall seem Erin to me; In exile thy bosom shall still be my home, And thine eyes make my climate wherever we roam.”
“Look to your consciences and remember that the theatre of the world is wider than the realm of England.”

Source : "Queen of Scots: The True Life of Mary Stuart". Book by John Guy, 2005.
“Men will not be content to manufacture life: they will want to improve on it.”
“A farce, or slapstick humor, does well universally.”

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