"I realized that my battle to survive this war would have to be fought inside of me."

-- Immaculee Ilibagiza

#War Quotes #Battle Quotes #I Realized Quotes

“All empty souls tend to extreme opinion. It is only in those who have built up a rich world of memories and habits of thought that extreme opinions affront the sense of probability. Propositions, for instance, which set all the truth upon one side can only enter rich minds to dislocate and strain, if they can enter at all, and sooner or later the mind expels them by instinct.”
“I think any entertainer just sort of goes along with whatever comes along.”
“If we make the tough decisions now, we will be one year ahead of 80 percent of the states in the race to economic growth. If we fail to act, we will fall even further behind... by going first, we can become first.”
“There is plenty of room at the top because very few people care to travel beyond the average route. And so most of us seem satisfied to remain within the confines of mediocrity”

Source : "My Odyssey: An Autobiography". Book by Nnamdi Azikiwe, 1970.
“I love Johnny Cash but I don't love country music that much.”
“True love, it's like an illness. I never understood it before. In books and plays. Poems. I never understood what drove otherwise intelligent, right-thinking people to do such extravagant, irrational things. Now I do. It's an illness. You can catch it when you least expect. There's no known cure. And sometimes, in its most extreme, it's fatal.”
“I started by looking at what others had done before me. You see, over the years there have been attempts by many different people to reconstruct the chariot.”
“The streets of Vienna are paved with culture, the streets of other cities with asphalt.”

Source : Jonathan Franzen, Karl Kraus (2013). “The Kraus Project: Essays by Karl Kraus”, p.13, Macmillan

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