"We all owe life a death, an inevitable death which we can meet. But the unnecessary death that wastes life denies all consolation."

-- Laura Bohannan

#Death Quotes #Waste Quotes #Unnecessary Quotes

“When you live completely in each moment, without expecting anything, you have no idea of time.”
“No sense in talking tough unless you do it.”

Source : Helena Maria Viramontes (1996). “Under the Feet of Jesus”, p.45, Penguin
“I've done it with Broadcast News-where there was no finish line, there was no agenda that I had to move all the characters to this point, that I was sort of open to what happens.”
“I did have a feeling then that the culture of factuality was so dominating that storytelling had lost all its authority.”
“Every German soldier must be made to feel that he is living under the muzzle of a Russian gun.”

Source : "199 Days: The Battle for Stalingrad". Book by Edwin Palmer Hoyt, p. 142, 1999.
“...What does the blessing of heaven mean? We know the kirin is just an animal, not a mythical creature." It has become a symbol now.... That is the way human beings deal with the world.”
“Show me what you can do; don't tell me what you can do.”
“When you die, God and the Angels will hold you accountable for all the pleasures you were allowed in life that you denied yourself.”

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