"Our minds can come up with the most entertaining possibilities, if we let them. But most of the time, we keep them under far too close a check."

-- Alexander McCall Smith

#Mind Quotes #Possibility Quotes #Checks Quotes

“Man can certainly flee from God... but he cannot escape him. He can certainly hate God and be hateful to God, but he cannot change into its opposite the eternal love of God which triumphs even in his hate.”
“Humanity needs this technology as much as it needs all other technologies that have now connected us and set before us the terrifying and wondrous possibility of actually becoming one human race.”
“Painting should never look as if it were done with difficulty, however difficult it may actually have been.”
“I fundamentally believe that people have a genuine desire to be positively engaged in the world around them.”

Source : "We're not all ogres". Interview with Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2011.
“I always try to tell the story the best possible way. I create the mood for each scene in a way that the audience feels that they are right there with me and they feel actually in the mood that was right for the scene.”

Source : "Chud Rerun: Interview with Vilmos Zsigmond". Interview with Smilin' Jack Ruby, trouble.city. May 13, 2002.
“It was very natural that people just think of me as a comic actor.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“If all the circumstances of acting are made to easy, then there's no grain of sand to make the pearl.”
“There has never been a military operation remotely approaching the scale and the complexity of D-Day. It involved 176,000 troops, more than 12,000 airplanes, almost 10,000 ships, boats, landing craft, frigates, sloops, and other special combat vessels--all involved in a surprise attack on the heavily fortified north coast of France, to secure a beachhead in the heart of enemy-held territory so that the march to Germany and victory could begin. It was daring, risky, confusing, bloody, and ultimately glorious [p.25]”

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