"As whites see their power and control over their lives declining, will they simply go quietly into the night? Or will there be an explosion?"

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Source : "Arnold’s Language Barrier", www.motherjones.com. September 8, 2003.

John Tanton

#Night Quotes #Explosions Quotes #Power And Control Quotes

“But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.”
“Television is of great educational value. It teaches you while still young how to (a) kill, (b) rob, (c) embezzle, (d) shoot, (e) poison, and, generally speaking, (f) how to grow up into a Wild West outlaw or gangster by the time you leave school.”

Source : George Mikes (1986). “How to be a Brit: The Classic Bestselling Guide”, p.142, Penguin UK
“In soccer, the blindest player is the one who sees nothing but the ball.”

Source : "À sombra das chuteiras imortais: crônicas de futebol" by Nelson Rodrigues, Ruy Castro - Publicado por Companhia das Letras, (p. 102), 1993.
“The fate of peoples is made like this, two men in small rooms. Forget the coronations, the conclaves of cardinals, the pomp and processions. This is how the world changes: a counter pushed across a table, a pen stroke that alters the force of a phrase, a woman's sigh as she passes and leaves on the air a trail of orange flower or rose water; her hand pulling close the bed curtain, the discreet sigh of flesh against flesh.”
“I think it's difficult to be No. 1. 'There's too much attention, too much expectation from other people.”
“He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.”
“I thought Denver and Seattle was a big game but Houston and Dallas is the kind of game that as players, we want to play in. I havenâ€™t missed playing in the National Football League, but every year there are one or two games that makes me wish I could tee it up in that game one more time.”
“The only people who don't make mistakes are the people who don't do anything.”

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