"A man with no enemies is a man with no character."

-- Paul Newman

#Character Quotes #Men Quotes #Enemy Quotes

“Then she did see it there - just a face, peering through the curtains, hanging in midair like a mask. A head-scarf concealed the hair and the glassy eyes stared inhumanly, but it wasnâ€™t a mask, it couldnâ€™t be. The skin had been powdered dead-white and two hectic spots of rouge centered on the cheekbones. It wasnâ€™t a mask. It was the face of a crazy old woman. Mary started to scream, and then the curtains parted further and a hand appeared, holding a butcherâ€™s knife. It was the knife that, a moment later, cut off her scream. And her head.”

Source : Robert Bloch (2010). “Psycho: A Novel”, p.24, The Overlook Press
“There is a strange taboo in our society against ending something merely because it is not pleasant-- life, love, a conversation, you name it, the etiquette is that you must begin in ignorance & persevere in the face of knowledge, & though I naturally believe that this is profoundly wrong it's not nice to go around constantly offending people.”

Source : Helen DeWitt (2016). “The Last Samurai”, p.136, New Directions Publishing
“There is a fundamental difference between the Jewish idea of creation and that of Islam. The creation according to Islam is not a unique act in a given time but a perpetual and constant event; and God supports and sustains all existence at every moment by His will and His thought. Outside His will, outside His thought, all is nothing, even the things which seem to us absolutely self-evident such as space and time. Allah alone wishes: the Universe exists; and all manifestations are as a witness of the Divine will.”

Source : "An Interview with Ryszard Kapuscinski: Writing about Suffering". Interview With Thomas Wolfe, quod.lib.umich.edu. 1998.
“Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.”
“We expect more from technology and less from each other. We create technology to provide the illusion of companionship without the demands of friendship.”
“In my book "Sound Unbound" we traced the guy who actually came up with the main concept for the graphic design of the record cover sleeve. His name is Alex Steinweiss. And one of the things in my book that we really tried to figure out was the revolution in graphic design that occurred when people put images on album covers.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“You really expose yourself when you try and go to up the volume and up the size of your performance.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.”

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