"I still don't even know if the sheriff will let me see him. And suppose he did; what then? What do I say to him? Do I know what a man is? Do I know how a man is supposed to die? I'm still trying to find out how a man should live. Am I supposed to tell someone how to die who has never lived?"

-- Ernest Gaines

#Men Quotes #Dying Quotes #Trying Quotes

“The Japanese say, if the flower is to be beautiful, it must be cultivated.”
“Where there is a will there is a way,”
“I'maa tell you right now as an experience, dammit, I'm going to enjoy that one as much as I hate to admit it.”
“Forget the floor plans. Arrange the furniture where it is the most comfortable and will look best.”
“The bottom line is that female writers aren't being given enough opportunities by male producers.”
“Sometimes you have to learn how to shoot first.”

Source : 1994 On Syrian President Hafez Assad's complaint that he had been put off by a hostile question in a news conference shared with President Clinton. In US News and World Report,19 Dec.
“As long as one does not call his own position into question but regards it as absolute, while interpreting his opponents' ideas as a mere function of the social positions they occupy, the decisive step forward has not yet been taken.”

Source : Karl Mannheim (2013). “Ideology and Utopia”, p.68, Routledge
“The real force of Silicon Valley is the mentality, the spirit. There's no reason at all that can't be replicated in Paris.”

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