"...nothing ever happens quickly (except when it does). Nothing is ever, ever easy (except when it is). And, most of all, nothing ever goes perfectly according to plan (except in the movies)."

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Source : Ally Carter (2011). “Only the Good Spy Young”, p.162, ReadHowYouWant.com

Ally Carter

#Doe Quotes #Easy Quotes #Plans Quotes

“It's time to refocus our global fight against terrorism. We must move away from the Iraq-centric policies that are draining our resources and focus on Al Qaeda and its affiliates who are reportedly operating in some 60 to 80 countries around the world.”
“An isolated outbreak of virginity is a rash on the face of society. It arouses only pity from the married, and embarrassment from the single.”

Source : "Lucinda". Book by Charlotte Bingham, 1966.
“If an animal has to be sacrificed when a new bridge is built, what will it take to build a whole new world?”
“It is fine to imitate a being you respect, but you cannot become that very being. Imitation is something one does to grow and develop. It is not something you use to deceive yourself. You absorb in yourself the things you think have some kind of value, but even if you try to find the meaning about your true self you will not find anything. Because those who cannot accept their real self always fail.”
“We need a program of psychosurgery for political control of our society. The purpose is physical control of the mind. Everyone who deviates from the given norm can be surgically mutilated. ... The individual may think that the most important reality is his own existence, but this is only his personal point of view. This lacks historical perspective. Man does not have the right to develop his own mind. This kind of liberal orientation has great appeal. We must electronically control the brain. Someday armies and generals will be controlled by electric stimulation of the brain.”
“I had come at last and my heart was beating again strongly to a heart that could not know despair because it forgot itself in the duty of its love.”
“Ask him what time it is and he'll tell you how the watch was made.”

Source : Of Ronald Reagan. Quoted in Jack Finney From Time to Time (1995).
“Common sense tells us that this explosion of media sources should eliminate any concern over a lack of diversity of views in the marketplace and competition.”

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