"I will never, for the future, paint the portrait of a tyrant until his head lies before me on the scaffold."

-- Jacques-Louis David

#Lying Quotes #Tyrants Quotes #Portraits Quotes

“War is legitimized state-sponsored terrorism in a grand scale.”

Source : Newton Lee (2015). “Counterterrorism and Cybersecurity: Total Information Awareness”, p.108, Springer
“An outsider can see some things much better.”

Source : "Question time". Interview with Hannah Pool, www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2009.
“May you be children of God, pure and unblameable, in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation (cf. Phil. 1:15): and may you never be entangled in the snares of the wicked that go round about, or bound with the chains of your sins. May the Word in you never be smothered with the cares of this life and so make you unfruitful: but may you walk in the King's Highway, turning aside neither to the right hand nor to the left, but led by the Spirit through the narrow gate.”
“Trust that the treasure we look for is hidden in the ground on which we stand.”
“Trust me, Wilbur. People are very gullible. They'll believe anything they see in print.”

Source : "Fictional character: Charlotte". "Charlotte's Web", www.imdb.com. 1973.
“I guarantee you that's what Jeff Gordon does. He uses everything the fans throw at him to stoke his fire and it drives him to be better at what he does.”
“Now, writing every day, and being paid for it and encouraged to do it, it was as if, in the midst of the clich?d dark and stormy night, I found the magical inn, its windows golden lit, and Summer was due to start tomorrow. I can only work at one thing well. Deprive me of that, and my "back-up plan," even now, will be the empty, stormy, darkened heath -- where, incidentally, even unpublished, somehow I'll still be writing.”
“Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.”

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