"In 1952, I had gone to England on a literary pilgrimage, but what I also saw, even at that distance from the blitz, were bombed-out ruins and an enervated society, while the continent was still, psychologically, in the grip of its recent atrocities."

-- Cynthia Ozick

#Distance Quotes #Atrocities Quotes #Gone Quotes

“When you're not putting a bunch of chemicals into everbody, people tend not to fly off the handle.”
“The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.”

Source : Dorothea Lange, Robert Coles (1982). “Photographs of a Lifetime”
“One begins to realize that art... in setting out to express nature with ever growing accuracy, teaches us to look, to perceive, to feel. The stone itself becomes an organic substance, and one can feel it being transformed as one moment in its life succeeds another.”
“Whether you realize it or not, you have the power to be successful.”

Source : David Cottrell, Mark C. Layton (2002). “The Manager's Coaching Handbook: A Practical Guide to Improving Employee Performance”, p.1, The Walk The Talk Company
“As a dad, you are the Vice President of the executive branch of parenting. It doesn't matter what your personality is like, you will always be Al Gore to your wife's Bill Clinton. She feels the pain and you are the annoying nerd telling them to turn off the lights.”
“I am more strongly confirmed than ever in the belief that the time devoted to chess is literally frittered away.”

Source : Letter to Daniel Fiske, February 4, 1863.
“I don’t have a problem with recognition ... It’s very, very rarely about who I am, it’s always, ‘I love your work.’ ... It’s always in relation to my work, which I think is a really lucky thing to have happen as opposed to, ‘Oh, you’re a famous personality’.”

Source : "Free Software as a Social Movement". ZNet Article, zcomm.org. December 18, 2005.
“People just weren't interesting. Maybe they weren't supposed to be. But animals, birds, even insects were. I couldn't understand it.”

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