"Synchronize watches at oh six hundred' says the infantry captain, and each of his huddled lieutenants finds respite from fear in the act of bringing two tiny pointers into jeweled alignment while tons of heavy artillery go fluttering overhead: the prosaic, civilian-looking dial of the watch has restored, however briefly, an illusion of personal control. Good, it counsels, looking tidily up from the hairs and veins of each terribly vulnerable wrist; fine: so far, everything's happening right on time."

-- Richard Yates

#Two Quotes #Hair Quotes #Watches Quotes

“I wanted to go to the end of photography.”
“Music, uniquely among the arts, is both completely abstract and profoundly emotional.”
“Who, being loved, is poor?”
“I have learned to take a bit more off and rest a little deeper.”
“Wisdom is to have dreams big enough not to lose sight when we pursue them.”
“I know what it's like to be ignored, and I think that is the big problem about the prison system: These people are being thrown away. There is no sense of rehabilitation. In some places, they are trying to do things. But, in most cases, it's a holding cell.”
“When she woke briefly during her last illness and found all her family around her bedside: "Am I dying or is this my birthday?"”
“Never before in human history have so few owed so much to so many, Mr. Jiabao. A handful of men in this country have trained the remaining 99.9 percentâ€”as strong, as talented, as inteligent in every wayâ€”to exist in perpetual servitude; a servitude so strong that you can put the key of his emancipation in a man's hands and he will throw it back at you with a curse.”

Source : "Scott Pelley: ‘We’re Getting the Big Stories Wrong, Over and Over Again’". Scott Pelley's speech at the accepting his Fred Friendly First Amendment award at Manhattan’s Metropolitan Club in New York, www.adweek.com. May 10, 2013.

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