"The German national character is a favorite subject of character experts, probably because the less mature a nation, the more she is an object of criticism and not of history."

-- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#Character Quotes #Criticism Quotes #Experts Quotes

“I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too.”

Source : Speech to troops at Tilbury, England (1588).
“The theory has to be interpreted that extra dimensions beyond the ordinary four dimensions the three spatial dimensions plus time are sufficiently small that they haven't been observed yet.”
“The promise of the Internet-as-Alexandria is more than the rolling plenitude of information. It's the ability of individuals to choreograph that information in idiosyncratic ways, the hope that individuals might feel invited by the gravitational pull of a broad and open commons to 'rip, mix, and burn' - to curate.”
“The vigour of government is essential to the security of liberty. . . . a dangerous ambition more often lurks behind the specious mask of zeal for the rights of the people, than under the forbidding appearance of zeal for the firmness and efficiency of government.”
“It's about time law enforcement got as organized as organized crime.”
“The great thing is that when you hire string players you always get really great players. I don't know why that is.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“A true batsman should in most of his strokes tell the truth about himself.”

Source : Neville Cardus (1930). “Cricket”
“A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree; or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude...”

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