"It was unknowable then, but so much of the progress that would define the 20th century, on both sides of the Atlantic, came down to the battle for a slice of beach only 6 miles long and 2 miles wide."

-- Barack Obama

#Beach Quotes #Sacrifice Quotes #Long Quotes

“People, human beings with all their creative diversity, are the makers of history.”
“Character cannot be counterfeited, nor can it be put on and cast off as if it were a garment to fit the whim of the moment. Day by day we become what we do. This is the supreme law and logic of life.”
“Poetry is when you make new things familiar and familiar things new”
“Visualize what you want to do before you do it. Visualization is so powerful that when you know what you want, you will get it.”
“Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are.”

Source : "Man and Crisis". Book by José Ortega y Gasset, p. 94, 1962.
“At the bottom of philosophy something very true and very desperate whispers: Everyone is hungry all the time. Everyone is starving. Everyone wants so much, much more than they can stomach, but the appetite doesn't converse much with the stomach. Everyone is hungry and not only for food - for comfort and love and excitement and the opposite of being alone. Almost everything awful anyone does is to get those things and keep them.”
“I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.”
“They killed me in The Sopranos. I went to David Chase, and I said, "Why me? I'm a detective! You can use me forever!" And he told me, "John, there's a rule in television: Somebody has to die that the audience likes."”

Source : Source: tv.avclub.com

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