"History is apt to judge harshly those who sacrifice tomorrow for today."

-- Harold MacMillan

#Sacrifice Quotes #Judging Quotes #Today Quotes

“We very quickly forget about the wonderful things we've got. People lose their excitement because there's too much. Basically we're experiencing nothing, because everything is available to us.”
“I would rather my films be well-known than I be well-known.”

Source : "Arms Wide Open: Patrice Leconte Talks About 'Intimate Strangers'". IndieWire Interview, www.indiewire.com. July 30, 2004.
“Knowledge is knowing a fact, wisdom is knowing what to do with that fact.”
“The challenge as we saw in the Nigerian project was to restructure the economy decisively in the direction of a modern free market as an appropriate environment for cultivation of freedom and democracy and the natural emergence of a new social order.”
“Once that was over, I knew that my ties to a football organization would be over because I never wanted to coach or be in the front office.”
“Fancy rules over two thirds of the universe, the past, and future, while reality is confined to the present”
“The quintessential bad - luck position. Pucks can go off bodies, skates, bounce into the net.”
“It is difficult to put into words what I suffered-the longing that seemed to be tearing my heart out by the roots, the dreadful sense of being alone in an empty universe, the agonies that thrilled through me as if the blood were running ice-cold through my veins, the disgust with living, the impossibility of dying. Shakespeare himself never described this torture; but he counts it, in Hamlet, among the terrible of all the evils of existence. I had stopped composing; my mind seemed to become feebler as my feelings grew more intense. I did nothing. One power was left to me-to suffer.”

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