"I am certain that, however great the hardships and the trials which loom ahead, our America will endure and the cause of human freedom will triumph."

-- Cordell Hull

#America Quotes #Triumph Quotes #Trials Quotes

“Sitting in the back row of a full audience watching one of my movies, and hearing them cry and hearing them laugh in the right moments, particularly when they laugh at a line I've stolen from one of my family members and put in the film. That excites me a great deal.”

Source : Source: aalbc.com
“one's travel life is basically as incommunicable as his sex life is ...”
“I can imagine no society which does not embody some method of arbitration.”
“Shame weighs a lot more than flesh and bone.”

Source : Portia de Rossi (2011). “Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain”, p.234, Simon and Schuster
“Everybody has an inside scoop, so just be a nice guy. Be a nice person.”

Source : Source: www.harpersbazaar.com
“Music is very personal. It is not objective. We're not talking about how tight they were. How famous they are. How rich they are. For me it's like food. You taste it, and you either love it, or you think it's boring, or it tastes bad, which is three reactions I have with music, just like food, it's very personal.”

Source : Source: www.indieberlin.de
“The carrying power of a bridge is not the average strength of the pillars, but the strength of the weakest pillar. I have always believed that you do not measure the health of a society by GNP but by the condition of its worst off.”

Source : Source: bleacherreport.com
“When confronted with information streaming from the eyes, the brain will interpret this information in the quickest and most efficient way possible. Time is energy. The longer the brain spends performing some calculation, the more energy it consumes. Considering the brain runs on about 40 watts of power (a lightbulb!), it doesn't have a lot of energy to spare.”

Source : Gregory Berns (2010). “Iconoclast: A Neuroscientist Reveals How to Think Differently”, p.7, Harvard Business Press

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