"You don't have friends in here, you'll soon come to understand that. You get attached to someone, then you'll just lose them. They'll get shanked or they'll jump or they'll be taken one night."

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Source : Alexander Gordon Smith (2010). “Escape from Furnace 1: Lockdown”, p.48, Faber & Faber

Alexander Gordon Smith

#Taken Quotes #Night Quotes

“You can't base your life's decisions on potential future regrets.”
“My favorite actor who played villains - who could play anything, really - was Jimmy Cagney.”

Source : Interview with Logan Hill, www.gq.com. May 31, 2012.
“You have people who know you are competent enough to do your job and then you have the ones that just hover around.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“This is why I say that the individual's most potent weapon is a stubborn belief in the triumph of common decency.”

Source : Paul Rusesabagina (2009). “An Ordinary Man: The True Story Behind Hotel Rwanda”, p.130, Bloomsbury Publishing
“We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.”
“We are stratified creatures, creatures full of abysses, with a soul of inconstant quicksilver, with a mind whose color and shape change as in a kaleidoscope that is constantly shaken.”
“The American people owe it to themselves, and to the cause of free Government, to prove by their establishments for the advancement and diffusion of knowledge, that their political Institutionsare as favorable to the intellectual and moral improvement of Man as they are conformable to his individual and social rights.”
“I am almost convinced (quite contrary to opinion I started with) that species are not (it is like confessing a murder) immutable.”

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