"[On Napoleon assuming power in France:] The time of Fable is over, the time of History has begun."

-- Josephine de Beauharnais

#Fables Quotes #France Quotes #Assuming Quotes

“Time and circumstances change us...and it is pointless to ask why.”
“The complete destruction of traditional marriage and the nuclear family is the 'revolutionary or utopian' goal of feminism.”
“By annihilating somebody else in whatever way, then that person feels that they also have the ability to, then, restore the person.”
“The most beautiful people are all in the library.”
“The individual has become a mere cog in an enormous organization of things and powers which tear from his hands all progress, spirituality, and value in order to transform them from their subjective form into the form of a purely objective life.”

Source : "The Metropolis and Modern Life" by Georg Simmel (1903), translated by Kurt Wolff in "The Sociology of Georg Simmel" edited by D. Weinstein, New York: Free Press, (p. 422), 1950.
“I auditioned for a community theater-slash-professional production of Oliver Twist in Union City when I was 11 because my cousin wanted to be an actor and I was visiting her and it seemed like fun. I was Oliver. I hadn't had any training, I was just a cute kid. There was an agent in the audience.”

Source : Source: deadline.com
“I never thought I actually could be an actor. I was always pretty shy and quiet.”

Source : Source: www.broadwayworld.com
“England's bowlers have improved, I'll give them that.”

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