"Sending money to Washington to have it administered and sent back is like getting a blood transfusion from your right arm to your left arm with a leaky valve."

-- Ernest Hollings

#Blood Quotes #Arms Quotes #Valve Quotes

“The truth of the matter is, every film is imperfect. It's the nature of the beast. One of the things that people ask me all the time is, what's the difference between theater and film, and one of the biggest differences is, in the theater you always get another go.”

Source : "Reading 'The Reader' with Stephen Daldry". Rotten Tomatoes Interview, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. February 17, 2009.
“For Christ, both God and man, must lay hold on us in order that there may be a union between Him and us.”

Source : Martin Chemnitz (1979). “De Coena Domini”
“In early 1961 a new president, John F. Kennedy, was told by military leaders and civilian officials that the Kingdom of Laos - of no conceivable strategic importance to the U.S. - required the presence of American troops and perhaps even tactical nuclear weapons. Why? Because if Laos fell, Asia would go red from Thailand to Indonesia.”
“I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon.”
“I hear the word 'tolerance'-tha t some people are trying to teach people to be tolerant of gays. I'm not satisfied with that word. I am gay, and I am not seeking to be 'tolerated'. One tolerates a toothache, rush-hour traffic, an annoying neighbor with a cluttered yard. I am not a negative to be tolerated.”
“The team which I led to the 1992 European Championship Finals is the only one in the history of the entire competition to have won every single one of its qualifying matches.”
“Strength is the outcome of need; security sets a premium on feebleness. The work of ameliorating the conditions of life -- the true civilizing process that makes life more and more secure -- had gone steadily on to a climax... And the harvest was what I saw.”
“I like to think of the senses as having a volume control in the brain. The volume turns up on all the other senses when you lose one.”

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