"There is a time when the word "eventually" has the soothing effect of a promise, and a time when the word evokes in us bitterness and scorn."

-- Eric Hoffer

#Promise Quotes #Bitterness Quotes #Evoke Quotes

“There is never any real danger in allowing a pedestal for a hero. He never has time to sit on it. One sees him always over and over again kicking his pedestal out from under him, and using it to batter a world with.”

Source : Gerald Stanley Lee (1913). “Crowds: A Study of the Genius of Democracy and of the Fears, Desires, and Expectations of the People”
“The reality is that we have missed a lot of opportunities in Iraq because of a failed policy.”
“To go forward you have to leave something behind”
“As every real estate agent knows, a poor house in good surroundings will sell for a higher price than a better house in poor surroundings, and in a town they confidently ask 25 percent more rent for a flat with a view of a park that for an identical flat with no view.”
“What do you say when someone takes on a really bad ass, murdering sucker for you? There just aren't words for that.”
“Today the House has a chance to give 25 million married couples the best Valentine's Day gift possible, elimination from the most unfair of taxes, the marriage tax penalty.”
“A man in Mali told me that there are seven senses. Everyone has five, some can use their sixth. But not everyone has the seventh. It is the power to heal with music, calm with color, to soothe the sick soul with harmony. He told me that I have this gift, and I know what I have to do with it.”
“Playing what Hollywood determines is a hero, it immediately sets actors up to feel like they just can't explore the dark parts of themselves - the character has to be likeable, has to be fuckable, has to be redemptive on all fronts. When you're playing a character that's just inherently destructive or messed up, you're given this beautiful permission to try things. There's a license to fail.”

Source : "Family Ties". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 13, 2016.

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