"So-called austerity, the stoic injunction, is the path towards universal destruction. It is the old, the fatal, competitive path. Pull in your belt is a slogan closely related to gird up your loins, or the guns-butter metaphor."

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Wyndham Lewis

#Gun Quotes #Austerity Quotes #Path Quotes

“He walked into a room and everything stopped. Elvis was just so physically beautiful that even if he didn't have any talent... just his face, just his presence. And he was funny, charming, and complicated, but he didn't wear it on his sleeve. You didn't see that he was complicated. You saw great needs.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I would not preach tolerance, which seems to me another name for condescension and presupposes faults in those to be tolerated ... Nor do I believe in demanding love - that should be the gift of a free will. But simply to be kind - that is not too much to ask of any of us.”

Source : Josephine Lawrence (1945). “Let Us Consider One Another”, New York ; London : . Appleton-Century
“Russian cars are silly. They look like imports drawn by a cartoonist for a UAW newsletter.”
“I love the whole makeup of men - that they never mature and are always just boys.”
“I AM VERY MOVED BY SURVIVORS. BY PEOPLE WHO KNOW HOW TO OVERCOME A HANDICAP, A SITUATION, OR ANYTHING. VISITING THE HEARTS AND SOULS OF THOSE PEOPLE TEACHES ME A LOT ABOUT HUMANS AND HUMANITY.”
“See driving is like stabbing someone, it's very personal. While flying is like shooting someone, it's more distant.”

Source : "Dirty South: OutKast, Lil Wayne, Soulja Boy, and the Southern Rappers Who Reinvented Hip-Hop". Book by Ben Westhoff, 2011.
“Once a disease has entered the body, all parts which are healthy must fight it: not one alone, but all. Because a disease might mean their common death. Nature knows this; and Nature attacks the disease with whatever help she can muster.”
“Nothing's better than coming away from a film when people don't even recognize you, because you've undergone a total transformation.”

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