"Horror would not annoy a soldier any more than the sight of a hammer annoys a carpenter. It is sentimental to pretend that horror is not the tool of the soldier, just as the hammer is the tool of the carpenter. We live off death and the threat of death and we must take it calmly and use it well.... Eventually I came to enjoy killing, as a pianist enjoys the Czerny which keeps his fingers limber for the Beethoven."

-- Irwin Shaw

#Sight Quotes #Soldier Quotes #Hammers Quotes

“For me, choice is the most important thing because I'm going to be an adult actor pretty soon. So I've got to be choosing the right roles now so that by the time I get to that age there will be wide options available.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The economic success of the Reagan Administration was largely dependent upon the pyramiding of massive debt and the siphoning of capital from the rest of the world.”

Source : Robert Gilpin (2016). “The Political Economy of International Relations”, p.362, Princeton University Press
“The one predominant duty is to find one's work and do it.”
“California, the department-store state. The most of everything and the best of nothing.”
“When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.”
“All I want to do is realism and follow the tradition of realism. And explore what realism should be now be after the ubiquity of smartphones. I'm trying to answer the question. I don't think I'll ever have the words, but hopefully I'll have a few images.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“God does not rule by the consent of His subjects but by His sovereign authority. His reign extends over me whether I vote for Him or not.”
“I never could make out what those damned dots meant.”

Source : "The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations" edited Elizabeth Knowles, Oxford University Press, 2004.

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