"History is a better guide than good intentions."

-- Jeane Kirkpatrick

#History Quotes #Good Intentions Quotes #Intention Quotes

“You might not be ready for diplomacy with Beijing if you can't visit the Olympics without insulting our closest ally,”
“An abyss seems to have opened between the intellectual cosmopolites of culture and the people, hungry for word and meaning.”

Source : Meridel Le Sueur, Elaine Hedges (1990). “Ripening: Selected Work”, p.231, Feminist Press at CUNY
“There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind.”
“It's always cool on the airplane when people are watching 'SVU.' It's funny. And it's always the reruns.”

Source : "‘Law And Order: SVU’: Kelli Giddish Talks Playing Mariska Hargitay’s ‘Lover,’ James Van Der Beek Episode And More". Interview with Jaimie Etkin, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 2, 2012.
“Ordinary life does not interest me.”
“See plastic Nature working to this end, The single atoms each to other tend, Attract, attracted to, the next in place Form'd and impell'd its neighbor to embrace.”
“I feel free and strong. If I were not a reader of books I could not feel this way. Whatever may happen to me, thank God that I can read, that I have truly touched the minds of other men.”
“Wherever there is disaster, the newsman is there. If he cannot find disaster, he searches for the odd and the peculiar, the exotic and the unfamiliar. His photographs, seen by millions, make momentary events and strange occurrences all over the world our common property.”

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