"Wars come and wars go but the world does not change: it will always forget an indebtedness which it thinks it expedient not to remember."

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Source : Radclyffe Hall (1959). “Miss Ogilvy finds herself”

Radclyffe Hall

#Gratitude Quotes #War Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“The cynics, they can only speak of the dark, of the obvious, and this is not hard. For all itâ€™s supposed sophistication, itâ€™s cynicism thatâ€™s simplistic. In a fallen world, how profound is to see the cracks? The sages and prophets, the disciples and revolutionaries, they are the ones up on the ramparts, up on the wall pointing to the dawn of the new Kingdom coming, pointing to the light that breaks through all things broken, pointing to redemption always rising and to the Blazing God who never sleeps.”
“Your behavior reflects your actual purposes.”

Source : Ronald A. Heifetz, Marty Linsky, Alexander Grashow (2013). “The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World”, p.219, Harvard Business Press
“A plodding diligence brings us sooner to our journey's end than a fluttering way of advancing by starts.”
“Music is everything that one listens to with the intention of listening to music.”
“The best way to neutralise fear is by laughing. You can see the dynamics of this in action when people watch a horror movie. You'll notice that immediately after a good fright, following the sceams of terror - which is the point of maximum experience of fear - people will always laugh immediately afterward, as this is the natural way to release the fear. By laughing at something you also take away the perception that it has any power over you.”
“I'm not sure what theory is, unless it's the pursuit of fundamental questions.”
“Ballet is such a disciplined craft and it has given me a good grounding.”

Source : "My CV: Jennifer Ellison". www.mirror.co.uk. November 10, 2005.
“We're never trying to manipulate and mess with... When you finish the movie, you hope you did a good job but you never know.”

Source : Source: www.slashfilm.com

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