"The talk of pale, burning-eyed students, anarchists and utopians all, over tea and cigarettes in a locked room long past midnight, is next morning translated, with the literalness of utter innocence, into the throwing of the bomb, the shouting of the proud slogan, the dragging away of the young dreamer-doer, still smiling, to the dungeon and the firing squad."

-- Christopher Isherwood

#Morning Quotes #Past Quotes #Squad Quotes

“It's incredible how much intelligence is used in this world to prove nonsense.”
“Knowing too much of your future is never a good thing.”
“If they are unsuccessful in married life, who suffers more the bitter consequences of poverty than the wife? But if successful, she has not a dollar to call her own.”
“I don't want to use the word reorganization. Reorganization to me is shuffling boxes, moving boxes around. Transformation means that you're really fundamentally changing the way the organization thinks, the way it responds, the way it leads. It's a lot more than just playing with boxes.”

Source : "In Focus: Lou Gerstner". Interview with Richard Quest, edition.cnn.com. July 2, 2004.
“Ashes to ashes. Dust to dust. We are nothing, but dust and to dust we shall return. Amen.”
“The Yellowstone river is a beautiful river to navigate.”
“Nothing is really lost by a life of sacrifice; everything is lost by failure to obey God's call.”
“You don't do background music the way a lot of more conventional films do. The music is often kind of a character in your films to the extent that sometimes you stop and watch someone perform a song.”

Source : Source: www.slate.com

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