"Palestinians no longer blamed Yasser Arafat or Hamas for their troubles. Now they blamed the Israelis for killing their children. But I still couldn't escape a fundamental question: Why were those children out there in the first place? Where were the parents? Why didn't their mothers and fathers keep them inside? Those children should have been sitting at their desks in school, not running in the streets throwing stones at armed soldiers."

-- Mosab Hassan Yousef

#Mother Quotes #Running Quotes #Children Quotes

“I don't think a lot of actors talk about it, but there's usually a process where you essentially purge yourself of the character that you played prior to the movie.”
“Economists are behavioural psychologists, but they think more is better; they want to make everyone richer. They should pause. More's not necessarily better”
“School and things that painters have taught me even keep me from painting as I want to. I decided I was a very stupid fool not to be at least paint as I wanted to and say what I wanted to when I painted as that seemed to be the only thing I could do that didn't concern anybody but myself. I found that I could say things with colour and shapes that I couldn't say in any other way things that I had no words for.”
“After eating chocolate you feel godlike, as though you can conquer enemies, lead armies, entice lovers.”
“I have made a sculpture … you will never be finished with it – when you pass around it or see it against the sky… something new goes on all the time… together with the sun, the light and the clouds, it makes a living thing.”

Source : Jørn Utzon, Christian Norberg-Schulz (1980). “Sydney Opera House: Sydney, Australia, 1957-73”
“The human being holds a universe within, filled with overlapping frequencies, and the result is a symphony of cosmic proportions.”

Source : Masaru Emoto (2011). “The Hidden Messages in Water”, p.47, Simon and Schuster
“The sweetest pleasures are those which are hardest to be won.”

Source : Giacomo Casanova (2013). “The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt Volume 2: To Paris and Prison”, p.356, Simon and Schuster
“I am absolutely intrigued by life, and I really want to hold onto it.”

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