"Our history is every human history; a black and gory business, with more scoundrels than wise men at the lead, and more louts than both put together to cheer and follow."

-- Philip Wylie

#Wise Quotes #Cheer Quotes #Men Quotes

“If you wish to see the blessings which "God has prepared for those who love Him" (I COR 2:9), then take up your abode in the desert of the renunciation of your own will, and flee the world. What world? The world of the lust of the eyes, of your fallen self (I JN 2:16), the presumptuousness of your own thoughts, the deceit of things you can see.”
“Great presidents don't just fight good fights - they win them.”
“It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.”
“I'm never gonna die, never heard of death, energy can never be destroyed only the flesh, so when you try to murder me with bullets to the head this is why you can't kill me niggaz, I'm already dead.”
“When you're a story teller, you work out everything. You work out who these people are, what's going to be happening. The environment in which they live.”

Source : "Personality Clash: Kate Tempest x Loyle Carner". www.clashmusic.com. May 10, 2016.
“I think all decision making is very instinctive, in the end.”
“I work on stretched linen canvas, sized so that the surface already has a sense of tension when I begin. It is a very rich and reactive surface. I begin by drawing on the canvas with a kind of loose line, very simply and freely. I paint very thinly, which allows me to change the drawing if I want to.”
“No matter what I tend to be doing, generally people always think I'm crazy, first of all, because I'm always talking about things in the future that haven't happened yet, and people have a hard time believing what's gonna happen. Secondly, I'm almost always a contrarian, whatever direction everybody else is going in, I'm probably figuring out a way to go in a completely opposite direction.”

Source : "The 'I Am' Q&A". www.cnbc.com.

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