"The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia."

-- Barbara Amiel

#Mafia Quotes #Liberty Quotes #Members Quotes

“The man, the writer, the instrument of the creation will die, but his creation does not die.”
“Gore said foreigners are not worried about 'what the terrorist networks are going to do, but about what we're going to do.' Good. They should be worried. They hate us? We hate them. Americans don't want to make Islamic fanatics love us. We want to make them die. There's nothing like horrendous physical pain to quell anger. Japanese Kamikazes pilots hated us once, too. A couple of well-aimed nuclear weapons got their attention. Now they are gentle little lambs.”
“There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.”
“I do not think that tragedy is our natural fate and I do not live in chronic dread of disaster. It is no happiness, but suffering that I consider unnatural. It is not success, but calamity that I regard as the abnormal exception in Human Life.”
“I set my own rhythm and it was usually a little faster than other people's.”
“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”

Source : Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Julian Hawthorne (2015). “Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Letters, Diaries, Reminiscences and Extensive Biographies: Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned American Novelist, Author of “The Scarlet Letter”, “The House of Seven Gables” and “Twice-Told Tales””, p.1775, e-artnow
“When things become too popular they are always fading away for something else.”
“In a narcissistic cathexis, you invest more energy into your ideas about another person than in the actual, objective, external person. So the man who falls in love with beauty is quite different from the man who loves a girl and feels she is beautiful and can see what is beautiful about her.”

You may also like:

Brian Mulroney
Former Prime Minister of Canada
Conrad Black
Life peer
Franklin D. Roosevelt
32nd U.S. President
Jeremy Paxman
Journalist
Mark Steyn
Writer
Peter Charles Newman
Journalist
Richard M. Nixon
37th U.S. President
Rob Ford
Canadian Politician
George Jonas
Writer