"But obviously, we're looking for all good ideas to help deal with our long-term debt problem. This is something that is going to affect our economy. It affects our kids. And we need to deal with it."

-- David Axelrod

#Kids Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Long Quotes

“Scare answers to scare, and force begets force, until at length it comes to be seen that we are racing one against another after a phantom security which continually vanishes as we approach.”

Source : "Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman's Speech at the London Interparliamentary Conference". The Advocate of Peace, Volume 68, No. 9, archive.org. September 1906.
“Of course [photography] cannot create, nor express all we want to express. But it can be a witness of our passage on earth, like a notebook.”
“I like all the things that make you monstrous.”
“I believe that should is one of the most damaging words in our language. Every time we use it, we are, in effect, saying that we are wrong, or we were wrong, or we're going to be wrong. I would like to take the word should out of our vocabulary forever and replace it with the word could. This word gives us a choice, and we're never wrong.”
“There are no desperate situations, there are only desperate people.”

Source : "Die Deutschen gepanzerten Truppen bis 1945". Book by Oskar Munzel, 1965.
“All my life I have studies the peculiar powers of music. It has a force of its own that few would deny.”

Source : Katherine Neville (2015). “The Eight”, p.134, Open Road Media
“It is not always easy to diagnose. The simplest form of stupidity - the mumbling, nose-picking, stolid incomprehension - can be detected by anyone. But the stupidity which disguises itself as thought, and which talks so glibly and eloquently, indeed never stops talking, in every walk of life is not so easy to identify, because it marches under a formidable name, which few dare attack. It is called Popular Opinion...”

Source : Robertson Davies (1996). “The Merry Heart: Selections 1980-1995”
“Authentic success is living by your own lights.”

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