"The grand schemes of liberation, however indistinct and amorphous, can quickly be compromised, consumed by petty disputes and local hatreds."

-- Nigel Gibson

#Hatred Quotes #Disputes Quotes #Schemes Quotes

“I basically put myself into directors' hands and let them tell me what to do, and the more they told me what to do, the more I liked it.”
“To the chefs who pioneered the nouvelle cuisine in France, the ancienne cuisine they were rebelling against looked timeless, primordial, old as the hills. But the cookbook record proves that the haute cuisine codified early in this century by Escoffier barely goes back to Napoleon's time. Before that, French food is not recognizable as French to modern eyes. Europe's menu before 1700 was completely different from its menu after 1800, when national cuisines arose along with modern nations and national cultures.”

Source : Raymond Sokolov (1993). “Why We Eat What We Eat: How Columbus Changed the Way the World Eats”, p.12, Simon and Schuster
“Our strength grows out of our weakness.”
“Spirituality is about being ready. All the spiritual disciplines of your life - prayer, study, meditation or ritual, religious vows - are there so you can break through to the eternal. Spirituality is about awakening the eyes, the ears, the heart so you can see what's always happening right in front of you.”
“He who has really prayed to the Master, even once, has nothing to fear. By, praying to him constantly one gets ecstatic love (Prema Bhakti) through his grace.”
“Whatever deficiencies the leaders of the American Revolution may have had, reticence, fortunately, was not one of them.”

Source : "The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution". Book by Bernard Bailyn, August 1967.
“With me it's always about first impressions.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Just smiling at someone walking down the street can make the person's day. It's all about paying it forward.”

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