"sacrifice' was often a cloak for many actions that did not always stem from the highest motives."

-- Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

#Sacrifice Quotes #Action Quotes #Cloaks Quotes

“If your face is swollen from the severe beatings of life, smile and pretend to be a fat man.”
“The tender pressure of his lips soothed her, like a warm drink in the dead of the winter, when every part of her felt so cold.”
“I don't know if people realize how hard I work, because sometimes people ask me for my secret. The truth is that I don't have any secrets apart from the fact that I've been directing theater and film for twenty years and trying at every stage to make my work better.”

Source : "The Crash Reel Director Lucy Walker on Snowboarding and Simone de Beauvoir". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.indiewire.com. December 12, 2013.
“I take my responsibilities very seriously.”
“I had been working in colour for ten years or so and looked at digital and liked the possibilities it gave me.”
“In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75”
“God does not rule the world outwardly by gravitation and chemical affinity, but inwardly in the heart of man: as is your soul, so will the destiny be of the world in which you live and do.”

Source : Egon Friedell (2008). “A Cultural History of the Modern Age Vol. 1: Renaissance and Reformation”, p.229, Transaction Publishers
“SO when I got word from three different sets of people who all said Manson had cancer, I knew I couldn't get straight info from his staff and had no choice but to go over the fence for it.”

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