"I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad: and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to refuse, as a matter of principle, to accept the warming rays of the sun, and to report them, whenever, and if ever, they"

-- E. B. White

#Hate Quotes #War Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“The way the housing market imploded is obviously not an easy thing to explain. It's a little bit easier in a book - people can take their time, you can sort of go back and reread - but in a movie you've got two hours to not only explain things like collateralized debt obligations, but you also have to make it entertaining.”

Source : "On The Money: How 'The Big Short' And Its Jerk Heroes Explain Finance". "All Things Considered" with Kelly McEvers, www.npr.org. December 11, 2015.
“Anyone with a smart phone is a potential eyewitness cameraman capturing and transmitting stories at speeds that turn Reuter photos and traditional reporting into, well... yesterday's news.”
“The First World War, and especially the latest one, largely swept away what was left in Europe of feudalism and of feudal landlords, especially in Poland, Hungary, and the South East generally.”

Source : Emily Greene Balch (1972). “Beyond Nationalism: The Social Thought of Emily Greene Balch”, New York : Twayne Publishers
“People lose people, we lose things in our life as we're constantly growing and changing. That's what life is is change, and a lot of that is loss. It's what you gain from that loss that makes life.”

Source : FaceBook post by Thomas Jane from Sep 18, 2011
“Smell can conjure up memories for me stronger than any other sense. Especially childhood memories. Perhaps because you were that much shorter and therefore closer to the ground and its smells.”

Source : Lilli Palmer (1975). “Change lobsters, and dance: an autobiography”
“I am not in politics. 'President Mutombo?' No, no, no. There has never been a politician in my family, and I am not going to try to be the first one.”
“Blaire, This teardrop represents many things. The tears I know youâ€™ve shed over holding your motherâ€™s piece of satin. The tears youâ€™ve shed over each loss youâ€™ve experienced. But it also represents the tears weâ€™ve both shed as weâ€™ve felt the little life inside you begin to move. The tears Iâ€™ve shed over the fact Iâ€™ve been given someone like you to love. I never imagined anyone like you Blaire. But every time I think about forever with you Iâ€™m humbled that you chose me. This is your something blue. I love you, Rush”
“You can have computer sights of anything you like, but I think you have to go to the enemy on the shortest distance and knock him down from point-blank range. You'll get him from in close. At long distance, it's questionable.”

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