"I am fully aware of the critical moments we face as a country."

-- Antonis Samaras

#Country Quotes #Faces Quotes #Moments Quotes

“It's no good telling somebody they're trying too hard. It's very much like ordering a child to go stand in a corner for a half hour and never once think about elephants.”
“Smiting enemies has always been so admired that, unlike medicine or archaeology, it entitled its successful practitioners to become kings, emperors, and presidents ...”
“In saying no to progress, it is not the future which they condemn, but themselves. They give themselves a melancholy disease; they inoculate themselves with the past. There is but one way of refusing tomorrow, that is to die.”
“My wife was too beautiful for words, but not for arguments.”
“Somebody compared him to Billy McNeil, but I don't remember Billy being crap.”
“The ideal in chess can only be a collective image, but in my opinion it is Capablanca who most closely approaches this ...”
“Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.”
“In Harlem, black was white. You had rights that could not be denied you; you had privileges, protected by law. And you had money. Everybody in Harlem had money. It was a land of plenty.”

Source : Rudolph Fisher, John McCluskey (2008). “The City of Refuge: The Collected Stories of Rudolph Fisher”, p.36, University of Missouri Press

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