"I can understand the things that afflict mankind, but I often marvel at God those which console. An atom may wound, but God alone can heal."

-- Sophie Swetchine

#God Quotes #May Quotes #Atoms Quotes

“Sex the night before a race is only tiring if you have to go looking for it!”
“The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everyone else, and nobody was going to bomb them. At Rotterdam, London, Warsaw, and half a hundred other places, they put their rather naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and now they are going to reap the whirlwind.”

Source : Statement in 1942. "The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won". Book by Victor Davis Hanson, 2017.
“Ballet really lends itself to that because there's such a sense of ritual, with wrapping the shoes every day and preparing new shoes for every performance. It's such a process. It's almost religious, in nature.”
“It is an overactive imagination that turns men into cowards, not a surfeit of fear, as many believe”
“I'd much rather have 15 people arguing about something than 15 people splitting into two camps, each side convinced it's right and not talking to the other.”
“But beauty vanishes; beauty passes; However rare rare it be; And when I crumble, who will remember This lady of the West Country?”
“Cate Blanchett is somebody who I could watch do anything. I love what an extraordinary chameleon she can be. There's something about the way she bends and transforms that feels otherworldly to me.”
“If kids can forget their own mothers but still have a sense of comrade Lenin, then Soviet power really is here to stay!”

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