"War in men's eyes shall be A monster of iniquity In the good time coming. Nations shall not quarrel then, To prove which is the stronger; Nor slaughter men for glory's sake; - Wait a little longer."

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Source : Charles Mackay (1846). “Voices from the Crowd: And Other Poems”, p.23

Charles Mackay

#War Quotes #Eye Quotes #Men Quotes

“An orchestra knows during the first two minutes of the first rehearsal whether or not they are going to enjoy the person on the podium.”

Source : "Star-Spangled Baton?" by Leonard Slatkin, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 20, 2013.
“I wanted to write about the time when science became modern, around the 1950s. Right after physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, science started being so politicized and used as such a political weapon. When my father, who is a scientist, tells me about those years, I get a competing portrait of people who were expected to behave normally and be decent respectable members of society and who were also allowed this freedom to think in big and expansive ways. Now, when you think about people who work in labs, they're allowed to be socially inept in a very fundamental way.”
“There is almost no marital problem that can't be helped enormously by taking off your clothes.”
“I've had everything pierced at some point.”
“There comes a point in every man's life when he has to say: 'Enough is enough.'”
“Me, I'm complicated. But it's a living, I tell myself. Also, every once in a long while this disease manages to produce a fine and beautiful truth--as (they say) some oyster illness makes the wondrously perfect pearl.”
“I've kept voluminous diaries since I was eighteen, and do a lot of experimental writing.”
“You'd have thought that after suffering such a loss nothing else would matter to her but that didn't seem to be how it worked. She was fearful about everything now. It was as if she had finally seen the awful power of fate, it's deviousness, the way it could wipe out in an instant the one thing you had been certain you could rely on, and now she was constantly looking over her shoulder, trying to work out where the next blow might fall.”

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