"Satan delights equally in statistics and in quoting scripture...."

-- H. G. Wells

#Delight Quotes #Statistics Quotes #Scripture Quotes

“Cezanne said, 'I love to paint people who have grown old naturally in the country.' And I say I love to paint people who have been torn to shreds by the rat race in New York.”
“We measure everything by ourselves with almost a necessary conceit.”
“The course of a great statesman resembles that of navigable rivers, avoiding immovable obstacles with noble bends of concession, seeking the broad levels of opinion on which men soonest settle and longest dwell, following and marking the almost imperceptible slopes of national tendency, yet always aiming at direct advances, always recruited from sources nearer heaven, and sometimes bursting open paths of progress and fruitful human commerce through what seem the eternal barriers of both.”
“When you find someone who makes you smile and laugh, when you find someone who makes you feel safeâ€¦you shouldnâ€™t let that person go just because youâ€™re afraid.”
“There are some who lack confidence in the integrity and capacity of the people to govern themselves. To all who entertain such fears I will most respectfully say that I entertain none . . . If man is not capable, and is not to be trusted with the government of himself, is he to be trusted with the government of others . . . Who, then, will govern? The answer must be, Man for we have no angels in the shape of men, as yet, who are willing to take charge of our political affairs.”

Source : Said in 1853. "Andrew Johnson, Plebeian and Patriot". Book by Robert Winston, 1928.
“A man's library is a sort of harem.”
“Genetics do play a role in how you consciously or subconsciously manifest your true self.”
“Criticism should be done by critics, and a critic should have some training and some love of the medium he is discussing. But these days, gossip-columnist training seems to be enough qualification. I suppose an ability to stand on your feet through interminable cocktail parties and swig interminable gins in between devouring masses of fried prawns may just possibly help you to understand and appreciate what a director is getting at, but for the life of me I can't see how.”

Source : "Mr. Strangelove: A Biography of Peter Sellers". Book by Ed Sikov, p. 168, 1999.

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