"He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him."

-- Milan Kundera

#Conflict Quotes #Intimidating Quotes #Resolution Quotes

“It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.”
“As a writer you have a duty to be a messenger.”

Source : "Call of the wild" by Stephen Moss, www.theguardian.com. June 6, 2007.
“Like most portrait photographers, I aim to record the instant the subject is not thinking about being photographed, striving to get beyond the practiced facial performance, reaching for something unplanned. While trying to be as objective as possible, I acknowledge that every gesture is still an act of artifice.”
“We aim in the domain of politics at republicanism; in the domain of economics at socialism; in the domain of what is today called religion, at atheism.”
“Peace is the wish of the French of Italy Spain Germany and all the world, and Great Britain alone the cause of preventing its accomplishment, and this not for any point of honour or even interest, but merely lest there should be an example in the modern world of a great powerful Republic.”

Source : Charles James Fox (1970). “Memorials and correspondence”
“I pray for meaning. I pray for the limits of reality to become clear. For a world â€“ and a type of being â€“ that makes sense. I pray for a life after death that is not like this life. I pray for the end of mystery. What would a life be like with all the mysteries solved? If there were no questions, thereâ€™d be no stories. If there were no stories, thereâ€™d be no language. If there was no language thereâ€™d be no . . . What?”
“I know my career is going badly because I'm being quoted correctly.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“A journalist is the lookout on the bridge of the ship of state. He notes the passing sail, the little things of interest that dot the horizon in fine weather. He reports the drifting castaway whom the ship can save. He peers through fog and storm to give warning of dangers ahead. He is not thinking of his wages or of the profits of his owners. He is there to watch over the safety and the welfare of the people who trust him.”

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