"So many forces and resources would become available if States, aware (or conscious) of their true (or real) mission, would want to get on (or agree) to abolish every politics aiming at ("visant Ã ", Fr.) expansion or hegemony; system that maintain among nations a a perpetual distrust and tension, impose on them (or force or compel, "leur impose", Fr.) formidable armies and crushing war budgets."

-- African Spir

#Crush Quotes #Real Quotes #War Quotes

“I guess now would be a good time to tell you," He said. "I took Chainsaw out of my dreams.”

Source : Maggie Stiefvater (2012). “The Raven Boys”, p.325, Scholastic Inc.
“There are some great shows that come and go really fast, either because the network doesn't give them a chance or they just don't grab on to the psyche of the country quickly enough.”
“Value, therefore, does not stalk about with a label describing what it is.”
“I'm living under water. Everything seems slow and far away. I know there's a world up there, a sunlit quick world where time runs like dry sand through an hourglass, but down here, where I am, air and sound and time and feeling are thick and dense.”

Source : Audrey Niffenegger (2013). “The Time Traveler’s Wife”, p.270, Zola Books
“Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stock.”
“All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.”
“Strangely enough, it wasnâ€™t Gabe who was haunting my thoughts, though. That job belonged to a pair of sinfully black eyes that had lost their edge when they studied me, turning as soft and sultry as silk.”
“I went to South Africa on safari and came eye to eye with a beautiful leopard. We were so close; I was staring at him for a long time and I felt a recognition with my own nature.”

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