"Passive inactivity, because you have not been given specific instructions to do this or to do that, is a serious deficiency."

-- George C. Marshall

#Serious Quotes #Instruction Quotes #Given Quotes

“The public does not need to be convinced that there is something in mathematics.”
“God and Country are an unbeatable team; they break all records for oppression and bloodshed.”

Source : Luis Bunuel (2011). “My Last Breath”, p.153, Random House
“You get mixed messages because I have mixed feelings.”

Source : Sarah Kane, David Greig (2001). “Kane: Complete Plays: Blasted; Phaedra's Love; Cleansed; Crave; 4.48 Psychosis; Skin”, p.165, A&C Black
“There’s nothing better than an elegant cry of despair.”

Source : William Goyen, Reginald Gibbons (2007). “Goyen: Autobiographical Essays, Notebooks, Evocations, Interviews”, p.85, University of Texas Press
“I can read in any book and newspaper about the city of Detroit, but I want to hear what the people in Detroit have to say about Detroit. My best education is actually talking to people.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I have interviewed so many people who are put into nursing homes or hospices and are just waiting to die. It's a very lonely situation to just sit at a window and watch life go by.”
“For that story, I took as my subject a young woman whom I got to know over the course of a couple of visits. I never saw her having any health problems - but I knew she wanted to be married.”
“We would be deliberately violating the fundamental obligations we assumed in the Act of Bogota establishing the Organization of American States.”

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