"True security lies in the unrestrained embrace of insecurity - in the recognition that we never really stand on solid ground, and never can."

-- Oliver Burkeman

#Lying Quotes #Insecurity Quotes #Recognition Quotes

“One night I had an idea while I was at the movies: to photograph the film itself. I tried to imagine photographing an entire feature film with my camera. I could already picture the projection screen making itself visible as a white rectangle. In my imagination, this would appear as a glowing, white rectangle; it would come forward from the projection surface and illuminate the entire theater. This idea struck me as being very interesting, mysterious, and even religious.”
“State is the nation socially organized.”

Source : "Speeches" by António de Oliveira Salazar, Coimbra Editora, Volume 4, (p. 181), 1935.
“It normally happens that if you put two words together, or two syllables together, one of them will attract more weight, more emphasis, than the other. In other words, most so-called spondees can be read as either iambs or trochees.”
“All nights are sacred nights to make confession and resolve and prayer; all days are sacred days to wake new gladness in the sunny air.”

Source : H.H. (Helen Hunt) (1887). “Helen Jackson's Poems”
“We are not long-term beings. Not heroes of romances in many volumes. For one gesture, for one word alone, we shall make the effort. We openly admit: our creations will be temporary. We shall have this as our aim: a gesture.”
“Let the intellect alone, it has its usefulness in its proper sphere, but let it not interfere with the flowing of the life-stream.”
“Some of the most flowery praise you hear on the subject of teams is only hypocrisy. Managers learn to talk a good game about teams even when they're secretly threatened by the whole concept.”

Source : Tom DeMarco (1997). “The deadline: a novel about project management”, Dorset House
“Never interrupt your opponent when he's destroying himself.”

Source : "New Day" with Chris Cuomo, edition.cnn.com. August 17, 2016.

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