"Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible."

-- George Horace Lorimer

#Procrastination Quotes #Impossible Quotes #Hard Things Quotes

“When I’m taking a picture of Aya Sofia, what counts is the person passing by who stands for life”
“Though they themselves might be as surprised as their parents and teachers to hear it said, adolescents--these poignantly thin- skinned and vulnerable, passionate and impulsive, starkly sexual and monstrously self-absorbed creatures--are, in fact, avid seekers of moral authenticity. They wish above all to achieve some realistic power over the real world in which they live while at the same time remaining true to their values and ideals.”
“Living is a horizontal fall.”

Source : Jean Cocteau (1990). “Opium: The Illustrated Diary of His Cure”, Peter Owen Publishers
“The devil lives in a double-shot", Roman explains himself obscurely. "I got a great worm inside. Gnaws and gnaws. Every day I drown him and every day he gnaws. Help me drown the worm, fellas.”
“Great minds think alike-especially when they are female.”
“There's no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational.”
“Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihilate every possibility of solitude and reflection.”
“Apart from a commendable determination to discomfit Trump and members of his inner circle (select military figures excepted, at least for now), journalism remains pretty much what it was prior to November 8th of last year: personalities built up only to be torn down; fads and novelties discovered, celebrated, then mocked; "extraordinary" stories of ordinary people granted 15 seconds of fame only to once again be consigned to oblivion - all served with a side dish of that day's quota of suffering, devastation, and carnage. These remain journalism's stock-in-trade.”

Source : "Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, What Obsessing About You-Know-Who Causes Us To Miss". www.tomdispatch.com. May 7, 2017.

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