"I think the French have come to grips with their past, and that was true up until about - until the '70s. And then there were things like the film "The Sorrow And The Pity.""

-- Robert O. Paxton

#Past Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Sorrow Quotes

“Let us remember that the central reality must be sought in the writer's work: it is what the writer chose to write, or was compelled to write, that finally matters. And certainly Mishima's carefully premeditated death is part of his work.”
“Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.”
“The War on Terror is one of the most critical national security efforts in our history.”
“Custom, madam, is the law of fools, but it shall never govern me.”

Source : John Bell, Joseph Addison, Michael Arne, John Banks, Susanna Centlivre (1791). “British Theatre: Bold stroke for a wife”
“The photograph is an undeniably powerful medium. Free from the constraints of language, and harnessing the unique qualities of a single moment frozen in time.”
“Fairest and best adorned is she Whose clothing is humility.”

Source : James Montgomery, John Holland (1854). “Sacred Poems and Hymns: For Public and Private Devotion”, p.339
“Mr. Fulbright hasn't said anything new or interesting or clever in five years; his intellectual well dried up the day after Walter Lippmann stopped writing his regular column.”
“She has all the qualities of leadership, except followers.”

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