"It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly only if they're used."

-- Arundhati Roy

#Believe Quotes #Nuclear Quotes #Weapons Quotes

“In the psychological literature, depression is often seen as a defense against sadness. But I'll take sadness any day. There is no contest. Sadness carries identification. You know where it's been and you know where it's headed. Depression carries no papers. It enters your country unannounced and uninvited. Its origins are unknown, but its destination always dead-ends in you.”
“I'd made a long list of exceptions to cover the area between "ignoring her completely" and "abducting her at knifepoint.”
“There is in England a saying that an anti-Semite is someone who hates the Jews more than is necessary.”

Source : "Making History". Interview with Benny Morris, www.tabletmag.com. July 26, 2010.
“Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.”

Source : George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.152, Penguin
“To pray to God is to flatter oneself that with words one can alter nature.”
“When it comes to eating, you can sometimes help yourself more by helping yourself less.”
“I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.”
“When people tell me they've learned from experience, I tell them the trick is to learn from other people's experience.”

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