"Once the object has been constructed, I have a tendency to rediscover in it, transformed and displaced, images, impressions, facts which have deeply moved me (often without my knowing it)."

-- Alberto Giacometti

#Knowing Quotes #Facts Quotes #Tendencies Quotes

“Cricket the world over, I don't think, will ever know how different things would be without Kerry Packer.”
“One area of law more than any other besmirches the constitutional vision of human dignity. . . . The barbaric death penalty violates our Constitution. Even the most vile murderer does not release the state from its obligation to respect dignity, for the state does not honor the victim by< emulating his murderer. Capital punishment's fatal flaw is that it treats people as objects to be toyed with and discarded. . . . One day the Court will outlaw the death penalty. Permanently.”
“Films must all have the same structure. All of this to guarantee box office bonanza, which of course it never does, but that's another discussion entirely.”
“I like being powerful. I hope it doesn't go to my head. If somebody's going to have it, it might just as soon be me. There's always power, and it's just a matter of in whose hands it falls.”
“In my opinion the separation of the c- and ac-stars is the most important advancement in stellar classification since the trials by Vogel and Secchi ... To neglect the c-properties in classifying stellar spectra, I think, is nearly the same thing as if a zoologist, who has detected the deciding differences between a whale and a fish, would continue classifying them together.”
“I used to believe I was going to live forever. And then you suddenly become aware that you're not.”

Source : Interview with Anthony Haden-Guest, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 23, 2008.
“Sometimes Allah gives you bitterness in this life so that you can further enjoy the sweetness of the hereafter.”

Source : FaceBook post by Omar Suleiman from Oct 18, 2012
“You can't fix a fundamentally broken law; you've got to replace it. That's why Congress can't save Obamacare with a few tweaks, despite what its defenders say. No quick fix can correct the main flaw: The law takes power away from patients and hands it to bureaucrats. ...”

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