"I see the world through my eyes. It's sometimes a strange world."

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Keira Knightley

#Eye Quotes #World Quotes #Strange Quotes

“What words can express her [the white womanâ€™s] humiliation when, at the close of this long conflict, the government which she had served so faithfully held her unworthy of a voice in its councils, while it recognized as the political superiors of all the noble women of the nation the negro men just emerged from slavery, and not only totally illiterate, but also densely ignorant of every public question.”
“The best fire doesna flare up the soonest.”
“What is the world coming to, with these modern women? A man can't tell them what to do.”
“I'm more concerned with bad guys who got out and released than I am with a few that in fact were innocent.”
“Obstruction of mobility, where it occurs, is one of the most serious and intractable problems of industrial society.”

Source : Ernest Gellner, John Breuilly (2008). “Nations and Nationalism”, p.110, Cornell University Press
“If you're a person who complains about everything all the time, then you're just the boy who cried 'wolf.' But if you do it on occasion and about the right reasons, then people listen.”

Source : Interview with Will Harris, tv.avclub.com. July 13, 2011.
“Oh, that ludicrous virile earnestness!”

Source : Heinrich Böll (1984). “What's to Become of the Boy?, Or, Something to Do with Books”, p.40, Northwestern University Press
“It was the most emphatic display of selflessness I have seen on a football field. Pounding over every blade of grass, competing if he would rather die of exhaustion than lose, he inspired all around him. I felt such an honor to be associated with such a player.”

Source : "A-League talking points: Melbourne City fail another test of character" by Jonathan Howcroft, www.theguardian.com. November 1, 2015.

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