"Three hundred men, each of whom knows all the other, govern the fate of the European continent, and they elect their successors from their entourage."

-- Walther Rathenau

#Fate Quotes #Men Quotes #Three Quotes

“Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.”
“The best way to teach morality is to make it a habit with children.”
“Distress is virtue's opportunity: we only live to teach us how to die.”

Source : Thomas Southerne (1713). “The maid's last prayer: or, Any, rather than fail. The fatal marriage: or, The innocent adultery. Oroonoko. The fate of Capua. [Taken from general t-p; some variations on special t-ps, e.g. Sir Antony Love”, p.295
“Here Hillary Clinton is probably the most qualified person based on experience to ever run for president of the United States, and then this guy gets into the race, Bernie Sanders, and suddenly everybody goes, "Look at him. He's a real contender - "”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca
“You're free to speculate as you wish about the philosophical and allegorical meaning of the filmâ€”and such speculation is one indication that it has succeeded in gripping the audience at a deep levelâ€”but I don't want to spell out a verbal road map for 2001 that every viewer will feel obligated to pursue or else fear he's missed the point.”
“A pencil in my hand, its secret life / is charcoal, the wood already burnt, / a sacrifice.”

Source : Marianne Boruch (2016). “Cadaver, Speak”, p.13, Copper Canyon Press
“Few stories are written about what happens to the princess after the wedding. Reading between the lines of other stories, we can sketch out her "happily ever after": The princess gets pregnant and hopes for sons. As long as she is faithful and bears sons, she is considered to be a good wife. We don't hear whether or not she's a good mother, unless something goes wrong with her children.... All of history has been written about the subsequent adventures in the chapters of his life.”

Source : Elizabeth Debold, Marie C. Wilson, Idelisse Malavé (1993). “Mother daughter revolution: from betrayal to power”, Da Capo Press
“Truth is I thought it mattered. I thought that music mattered. But does it? Bollocks! Not compared to how people matter.”

Source : "Fictional character: Danny". "Brassed Off", www.imdb.com. 1996.

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