"Rome, like Washington, is small enough, quiet enough, for strong personal intimacies; Rome, like Washington, has its democratic court and its entourage of diplomatic circle; Rome, like Washington, gives you plenty of time and plenty of sunlight. In New York we have annihilated both."

-- M. E. W. Sherwood

#Strong Quotes #New York Quotes #Circles Quotes

“As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence. I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is very soothing and consoling! I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.”
“As a believer and a child of the King, to consider casting a vote for someone or for something that would go against what God would vote for ought to be out of the question.”
“I wouldn't write a book, because saying the word I over and over again would nauseate me.”
“We cannot legislate equality but we can legislate ... equal opportunity for all.”
“Everything that you want, you are already that.”
“Honestly, I try to forget Fashion Week once it's over. I just want to go home and rest and just forget I even did it. It could drive you crazy! It's just show after show after show, and you're missing your family and they feel really far away. You don't go to sleep. You work for a month.”
“Nothing else is necessary but these - love, sincerity, and patience.”
“Of course, we knew that the official reports were sketchy, if not falsified. But, in terms of information theory, this is precisely where the problem lay: How were we to reconstruct reality from incomplete or false reports? It is not true that virtually all news in a totalitarian state is false. On the contrary, most news is completely correct, albeit tendentiously slanded; it is just that certain information is suppressed. One can adjust for the political slanting of the news, but there is virtually no way to fill in the omissions.”

Source : "The Computer - My Life".

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