"There are no bad pictures; that's just how your face looks sometimes."

-- Abraham Lincoln

#Photography Quotes #Looks Quotes #Faces Quotes

“Our lives can only be lived forward and understood backwards. Living a life and understanding it occupy different dimensions.”

Source : Hanif Kureishi (2016). “Love in a Blue Time”, p.122, Faber & Faber
“I have this problem with violence. I've only done one movie in almost 20 years where I killed people. It's called Perdita Durango. It's a Spanish movie. I'm very proud of the movie, but I felt weird doing that.”
“To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, an ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own control, that can lead you to be shattered in very extreme circumstances for which you were not to blame. That says something very important about the condition of the ethical life: that it is based on a trust in the uncertain and on a willingness to be exposed; itâ€™s based on being more like a plant than like a jewel, something rather fragile, but whose very particular beauty is inseparable from that fragility.”
“Chastisement is designed for our good, to promote our highest interests. Look beyond the rod to the All-wise hand that wields it!”
“But I was not made for the great light that devours, a dim lamp was all I had been given, and patience without end, to shine it on the empty shadows.”
“The economic times we are facing... are arguably the worst they've been in 60 years. And I think it's going to be more profound and long-lasting than people thought.”

Source : "The worst of times for Alistair, but at least he's nobody's puppet" by William Keegan, www.theguardian.com. September 6, 2008.
“Hinduism would not be eternal were it not constantly growing and spreading, and taking in new areas of experience. Precisely because it has this power of self addition and re-adaptation, in greater degree than any other religion that the world has even seen, we believe it to be the one immortal faith.”

Source : Sister Nivedita (1915). “Religion and Dharma”
“You have to set the tone and the pace, define objectives and strategies, and demonstrate through personal example what you expect from others.”

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