#Hands Quotes #People Quotes #Together Quotes
“Literature seemed to be everything then. People looked to it for the strength to live, for guidance, for revelation.”
“I don't need to tell you that, what determines a man's legacy is often what isn't seen.”
Source : "Fictional character: J. Edgar Hoover". "J. Edgar", www.imdb.com. 2011.
“Following the attacks in Paris, French President François Hollande has a completely different set of concerns. France needs more police, more security personnel and a greater emphasis on integration. He says that security is more important than the Stability Pact.”
“American long for a closed society in which everything can be bought, where laborers are either hidden away or dressed up as nonhumans, so as not to be disconcerting. This place is called Disney World”
“I was standing next to a famed geo-politician when the first news of the Argentine attack [on the Faulkland Islands] was received, and heard him muse incredulously: "An old-fashioned naval battle. A war between two civilized nations, perhaps with even a declaration of war, and later a peace conference. Wow." No hostages, no nukes, no ideologies, no religious fanaticism; just a fair-and-square war over national interests - hard to believe, in this day and age.”
“When I realised I was transgender I was so afraid of what my transition would do to everyone else in my life and how they would react to it and would I be rejected?”
“One reader is better than another in proportion as he is able of a greater range of activity in reading and exerts more effort.”
“In my view, all that is necessary for faith is the belief that by doing our best we shall succeed in our aims: the improvement of mankind.”
Allan McLeod Cormack Physicist
Tadatoshi Akiba Japanese Politician
