"If you want to kill somebody, conquer his heart, Then leave slowly and leave them between death and madness."

-- Nizar Qabbani

#Heart Quotes #Want Quotes #Madness Quotes

“Lift the veil that obscures the heart, and there you will find what you are looking for.”
“Germans argue with the Americans about many things, from the death penalty to the relationship between security and freedom. We have to be honest about these differences. And yet, whenever we quarrel with the Americans, it amounts to controversies over different interpretations of values we share. You can't say that about Russia. Vladimir Putin fundamentally questions Western values.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“Read a little. Meditate more. Think of God all the time.”
“Oh, yes, of course I like music, too. Very much. It's so pleasant of an evening, especially when made by your friends at home. I often say I like it better than cards. Though I must say I do like a good game of bridge.”
“Every lecture should state one main point and repeat it over and over, like a theme with variations. An audience is like a herd of cows, moving slowly in the direction they are being driven towards. If we make one point, we have a good chance that the audience will take the right direction; if we make several points, then the cows will scatter all over the field. The audience will lose interest and everyone will go back to the thoughts they interrupted in order to come to our lecture.”

Source : Gian-Carlo Rota (2008). “Indiscrete Thoughts”, p.196, Springer Science & Business Media
“Hopefully I'll be the first Mexican-American going into Hillbilly Heaven.”
“One thing that Life and I agreed right from the start was that one war photographer was enough for my family; I was to be a photographer of peace.”
“If we stand in the openings of the present moment, with all the length and breadth of our faculties unselfishly adjusted to what it reveals, we are in the best condition to receive what God is always ready to communicate.”

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