"Glamour is assurance. It is a kind of knowing that you are all right in every way, mentally and physically and in appearance, and that, whatever the occasion or the situation, you are equal to it."

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Source : The Observer, www.theguardian.com. 1960.

Marlene Dietrich

#Knowing Quotes #Way Quotes #Kind Quotes

“I like visiting peoples homes on Saint Josephs Day, when people set up altars, serve food as a tribute to the saint, and invite the public - I enjoy that much more than Mardi Gras.”
“When it comes to matters of health, it's the one thing you can't control. Being healthy is the crown that only the sick can see. A lot of times, we take it for granted. But the few times that I've seen loved ones in the hospital or not being able to do something they could normally do, it really sucks.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“When watching men of power in action it must be always kept in mind that, whether they know it or not, their main purpose is the elimination or neutralization of the independent individual- the independent voter, consumer, worker, owner, thinker- and that every device they employ aims at turning men into a manipulable animated instrument which is Aristotle's definition of a slave.”

Source : Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers
“We must cease to think of the church as a gathering of institutions and organizations, and we must get back to the notion that we are the people of God.”
“Faith makes the discords of the present the harmonies of the future.”

Source : Robert Collyer (1867). “Nature and Life: Sermons”, p.4
“Any drunk who has tried to put his car where a lamppost stands is a self-educated physicist.”
“As a boy I used to go to the Chamber of Horrors at the annual fair, to look at the wax figures of Emperors and Kings, of heroes and murderers of the day. The dead now had that same unreality, which shocks without arousing pity.”

Source : Ernst Toller (1934). “I was a German: the autobiography of Ernst Toller”
“Tell the angel who will watch over your life to pray now and then for a man who, like Satan, believed himself for an instant to be equal to God, but who realized in all humility that supreme power and wisdom are in the hands of God alone.”

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