"Imagine yourself acclaimed, a decorated national hero, an idol to millions of desperate people, then within six months, condemned to death by hanging."

-- Joachim Peiper

#Hero Quotes #Idols Quotes #People Quotes

“Rules with an iron fist, but sometimes in that fist is a rose.”

Source : "SXSW: Mindy Kaling Teaches Us 10 Things About Running a TV Show" by Ben Travers, www.indiewire.com. March 13, 2014.
“The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.”
“When I go on a nostalgia trip it's not aesthetic. For me it's about trying to recapture the smell or the feeling of something that I've experienced in the past personally.”

Source : Source: www.buzzfeed.com
“I am not at all sure we could ever reach a peace agreement with the Palestinians' present leadership. We shall have to wait for the next generation. The most we could expect is, perhaps, another interim agreement. A Palestinian state? A permanent settlement? I do not see that happening in the coming years.”
“Don't be a complainer; make things better, let it go, or take action to make it better.”
“Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria.”

Source : David Lodge (1990). “Nice Work”, Penguin Group USA
“I think painting has that unique potential to project opposing viewpoints.”

Source : Interview with David Salle, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 4, 2015.
“I am of the opinion which you have always held, that "viva voce" voting at elections is the best method. [Lat., Nam ego in ista sum sententia, qua te fuisse semper scio, nihil ut feurit in suffragiis voce melius.]”

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