"It's a great historical joke that when the Spanish met the Aztecs, it was a blind date made in serve-you-right heaven. At the time, they were the two most unpleasant cultures in the entire world, and richly deserved each other. Still, the story of how stout Cortes blustered, bullied and bludgeoned his way to collapsing an entire empire with a handful of contagious hoodlums is astonishing."

-- A. A. Gill

#Two Quotes #History Quotes #Heaven Quotes

“I've been 6 ft. 2 ins. since I was 13.”
“If I had to live my life over, I'd live over a saloon.”
“Administering another country is always a very tricky proposition.”
“The test of an invention is the power of an inventor to push it through in the face of staunch-not opposition, but indifference-in society.”
“You kids were all in college, and I suddenly saw that I was stuck alone with a man who, all those years later, was still wanting me to be someone I wasn't.”

Source : Barbara Delinsky (2011). “Escape”, p.101, Anchor
“I'm not worrying about my mechanics-and that's a fun feeling. It's nice to be confident and not worry about where my hands and feet are.”
“Even a fool could see that one didn't need a war, nuclear or otherwise, to destroy oneself; the rising cost of weaponry could do that quite nicely.”
“The Sixties was a time of breaking down class barriers, although I think class still exists today in some areas.”

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