"I was as happy as a fish in water, and I could have stayed in that room for ever, have never left that place."

-- Ivan Turgenev

#Water Quotes #Rooms Quotes #Fishes Quotes

“The very greatest genius, after all, is not the greatest thing in the world, any more than the greatest city in the world is the country or the sky. It is the concentration of some of its greatest powers, but it is not the greatest diffusion of its might. It is not the habit of its success, the stability of its sereneness.”

Source : Leigh Hunt (1852). “Leigh Hunt's Works”, p.16
“Refuse to be cynical. Refuse to think that things can never change.”
“He really paid tribute to the people who are willing to risk their own lives to fight injustice - they are greater men and women than I.”
“The poem began with the title. Then I was annoyed by one of the occasional poetry-is-dead articles. Then I refute that notion.”
“We need to play each others instruments.”
“Applied good taste is a mark of good citizenship. Ugliness is a from of anarchy.. ugly cities, ugly advertising, ugly lives produce bad citizens.”
“Doors open because you're beautiful, but I wouldn't cultivate beauty to the exclusion of brains.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried. Most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita; Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty, and to impress him, takes on his multi-armed form and says, 'Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.' I suppose we all thought that, one way or another.”

Source : "NBC White Paper (The Decision to Drop the Bomb)". Documentary, January 5, 1965.

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