"As Dr. Chiang puts it, â€œwhile Buddha came to China on white elephants, Christ was borne on cannon balls."

-- Carlo M. Cipolla

#Elephants Quotes #White Quotes #Drs Quotes

“Christian ethics demand that you should not take revenge. The paradox is, naturally, that Christians worship a God who is the greatest avenger of them all. Defy him and you burn in eternal hell, an act of revenge which is completely out of proportion to the crime”
“Like any other composer of opera, I choose a subject not for polemical reasons, but because it contains vivid characters in highly charged dramatic situations.”
“Time decides who you meet in life, your heart decides who you want in your life, and your behavior decides who stays in your life.”
“I think I'm good at amplifying an actor's strengths, and minimizing their weaknesses. And they all have strengths and weaknesses.”
“When I was 34, people would say, What's going to happen to you when you're 40? What are you going to do? You don't have much time left. And I was like, what are you talking about?”
“Technology has saved us money in some circumstances, but it has really afforded us the ability to cover stories from locations we might not have been able to in the past.”
“The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face.”

Source : Jim Bishop (1966). “Jim Bishop, reporter”
“It's very hard to understand just what our strategy is in Syria, frankly, and on Iraq that this is Iraq's war, that the role of the United States is to help Iraq, to arm, train, support, provide air support, but this has to be Iraq's war.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org

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