"Casting out devils is mere juggling; they never cast out any but what they first cast in."

-- John Selden

#Devil Quotes #Casting Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“The man who has entered into a beautiful union is sure of at least one person to whom he can give the best that he possesses.”

Source : Georges Duhamel (1919). “The Heart's Domain”
“If you align your priorities in such a way that puts people first, everything begins to make more sense.”
“I do not fight battles that cannot be won. Do not confuse that with cowardice.”
“Don't be afraid of making an ***** of yourself. I do it all the time and look what I got.”
“The endeavor of being a foreign correspondent means that you will never be their equal. And that has its pros and cons. Were you to be an insider in a particular society, then you would be one of them, and the way you would write about that society would be very different. When you're brought up in a certain way, you have certain blind spots to the things going on in your culture. There is an illumination the outsider brings to a place or a situation that cannot be duplicated.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“I donâ€™t know, I donâ€™t know that Iâ€™m missing anything. I just think too much sometimes. Sometimes Iâ€™m even happy because Iâ€™m so engaged in the thinking. But thatâ€™s the great thing about performing, and why it is also sexual, because in that moment â€“ or in that evening â€“ Iâ€™m completely in the present for once in my life. Nothing that came before or anything that may come after: only what matters is now. And thatâ€™s what human beings crave.”
“The spring of 1942 was given over to a very impassioned, strategic debate about where we should first attack in counterpunching against the Germans and Italians. The British argued very persuasively on the part of Winston Churchill, prime minister, that this was a very green American Army, green soldiers, green commanders.”

Source : "Military Historian Writes Of Wars Past And Present". Interview with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. July 1, 2010.
“He's not responsible for what he's doing, cause his mother made him what he is.”

Source : Song: Up Against the Wall Redneck Mother

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