"Saddam Hussein greeted me with a handshake, which, again to my surprise, is surprisingly soft considering how many people that hand had dispatched, allegedly. I think he's quite a forbidding presence, too forbidding a presence to be charming. But he's interesting."

-- George Galloway

#Thinking Quotes #Hands Quotes #People Quotes

“Imma be what I set out to be without a doubt undoubtedly.”

Source : Song: Not Afraid
“Learning to play with a big amplifier is like trying to control an elephant.”
“The relation of repetitions for learning and for repeating English stanzas needs no amplification. These were learned by heart on the first day with less than half of the repetitions necessary for the shortest of the syllable series.”

Source : Hermann Ebbinghaus “Memory”, Рипол Классик
“I knew nothing about football, then someone showed me a film of Petit and I realised how interesting the game could be. He is divine. When I met him I could barely speak, he was so gorgeous. Women will love that show.”
“I send out thoughts of love and peace and healing to the whole universe: to all trees and plants and growing things, to all beasts and birds and fishes, and to every man, woman and child on earth, without any distinction.”
“My music was my life, and it played a large part in my inability to sustain relationships.”
“Man did not address his inquiries to the earth on which he stood until a remarkably late stage in the development of his desire for knowledge. And the answers he received to the questions, "Where do I come from?", "What is man?", although they made him poorer by a few illusions, gave him in compensation a knowledge of his past that is vaster than he could ever have dreamed. For it emerged that the history of life was his history too...”
“I am the last President of the United States!”

Source : "Lincoln's War: The Untold Story of America's Greatest President as Commander in Chief". Book by Geoffrey Perret, 2004.

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