"Something must happen; that is the reason for most human relationships. Something must happen; even servitude in love, in war, ordeath."

-- Albert Camus

#War Quotes #Boredom Quotes #Slavery Quotes

“A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.”
“When an opinionated person starts to challenge something, his mind shuts out all that could clear up the matter. The argument irritates him, however just it might be, and it seems that he is afraid of discovering the truth.”
“In 1904, 20 per cent of journeys were made by bicycle in London. I want to see a figure like that again. If you can't turn the clock back to 1904, what's the point of being a Conservative?”

Source : "Boris Johnson on South Bank for Barclays Cycle Hire launch", www.london-se1.co.uk. July 30, 2010.
“People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.”

Source : "Permission to Play: Taking Time to Renew Your Smile". Book by Jill Murphy Long, 2003.
“Some people think that the truth can be hidden with a little cover-up and decoration. But as time goes by, what is true is revealed, and what is fake fades away.”
“I like using concrete imagery, but I don't feel that's what it's about. It's a combination of concrete and abstract to take the listener somewhere they know better than you. That's true for music, seeing a painting, watching a movie... it's all some kind of an escape.”
“One Negro meeting another at an all-white cocktail party cannot but wonder how the other got there. The question is: Is he for real? Or is he just kissing ass? Almost all Negroes, are almost always acting, but before a white audience - which is quite incapable of judging their performance.”
“I aspire to be the president of all Venezuelans. The message is clear. Venezuelans are fed up with confrontation, with division.”

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