"A highwayman is as much a robber when he plunders in a gang as when single; and a nation that makes an unjust war is only a great gang."

-- Benjamin Franklin

#War Quotes #Unjust Quotes #Gang Quotes

“In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv.”

Source : Henri Cartier-Bresson, Michael L. Sand (1999). “The Mind's Eye: Writings on Photography and Photographers”
“In our whole life melody the music is broken off here and there by rests, and we foolishly think we have come to the end of time. God sends a time of forced leisure, a time of sickness and disappointed plans, and makes a sudden pause in the hymns of our lives, and we lament that our voice must be silent and our part missing in the music which ever goes up to the ear of our Creator. Not without design does God write the music of our lives. Be it ours to learn the time and not be dismayed at the rests. If we look up, God will beat the time for us.”
“Prove it. I'll measure your words against your actions, and from that I will determine your worth.”

Source : Jackie Morse Kessler (2011). “Rage”, p.84, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“It is mine, I tell you. My own. My precious. Yes, my precious.”
“Our legacy is really the lives we touch, the inspiration we give, altering someone's plan - if even for a moment - and getting them to think, cry, laugh, argue. More than anything, we are remembered for our smiles; the ones we share with our closest and dearest, and the ones we bestow on a total stranger, who needed it RIGHT THEN, and God put you there to deliver.”
“We need a doer, not a talker.”
“Every discussion of the status of woman is complicated by the existence of the lady. She overshadows the rest of her sex.”
“It is always pleasant to be urged to do something on the ground that one can do it well.”

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