"You may conquer her love of God: you will never overcome her fear of the devil."

-- Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

#Fear Quotes #Devil Quotes #May Quotes

“I remember one of my writer friends asking me, "Jonestown? Everyone knows the ending. What's new or surprising that you can say about it?" I told him that although people may know that almost one thousand people died in the massacre, they don't know what happens to my five people. Some escaped, some did not.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“To educate girls is to reduce poverty”
“I believe we can do much more to adapt to the structural changes in the global economy, get high-end manufacturing back here, set up clusters of economic activity where you have, among other things, continuous retraining of people well into their middle years so they never become irrelevant to the current job market.”
“It's certainly easier to implement bad security and make it illegal for anyone to notice than it is to implement good security.”
“I think, you know, as an actor we get these terribly sort of pretentious ideas in our heads. We try to take everything very seriously at first, you know, until we lighten up, we get onboard, and have a laugh.”
“A MAN WITH A CONVICTION is a hard man to change. Tell him you disagree and he turns away. Show him facts or figures and he questions your sources. Appeal to logic and he fails to see your point.”

Source : Leon Festinger, Stanley Schachter (2013). “When Prophecy Fails”, p.4, Simon and Schuster
“Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades.”

Source : Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1907). “The Writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich”
“Hey fellas! This is what you work all off season for. This is why you lift all them weights! This is why you do all that!”

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