"Sniper is a movie whose politics are so ludicrous and idiotic that under normal circumstances it would be beneath criticism. The only thing that forces us to take it seriously is the extraordinary fact that an almost exactly similar worldview consumed the walnut-sized mind of the president who got us into the war in question."

-- Matt Taibbi

#War Quotes #Mind Quotes #Criticism Quotes

“For though love has been ridiculed and disgraced, exchanged and bartered, dragged through the courts, and sold for thirty pieces of silver, the bright, steady glow of its fire still shines on the hearth-stones of countless homes...”

Source : Bess Streeter Aldrich (1988). “A White Bird Flying”, p.215, U of Nebraska Press
“The remoteness of my parents from the schools, so unfashionable today, was often painful for me, but I learned early to deal with an outside and sometimes hard world.”
“It is love that transports us, that fills us with joy! Love turns life into one long adventure, every encounter is a dazzling experience - well, not always, of course, but in actual fact, it is our less successful love affairs that enable us to appreciate the others. I think love protects us from one of the biggest problems facing the modern world: boredom.”

Source : François Lelord (2011). “Hector and the Secrets of Love”, p.23, Gallic Books
“I can't say I feel influenced by today's guitar players.”
“When it comes to determining child custody, however, sexism is the rule.”
“I like my coffee light.”
“Amazing, isn't it, that our prayers...can move the very heart of God who created the universe?”
“Classical music is a special taste like Greek language or pre-Columbian archeology, not a common culture of reciprocal communication and psychological shorthand.”

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