"Knowing all truth is less than doing a little bit of good."

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Albert Schweitzer

#Knowing Quotes #Littles Quotes #Truth Is Quotes

“You see, with [designing]weapons, it is like a woman who bears children. For months she carries her baby and thinks about it. A designer does much the same thing with a prototype. I felt like a mother - always proud. It is a special feeling, as if you were awarded with a special award. I shot with it a lot. I still do now. That is why I am hard of hearing.”
“[When asked at age 79 why her Paris apartment was located up many flights of stairs at the top of the building:] It's the only way I can still make the hearts of men beat faster.”
“I never thought anything about age. I believed sincerely and still do, that thereâ€™s nothing I cannot do. I believe that all the power in the universe is right inside me.”
“There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feel it.”
“Take eloquence and wring its neck.”

Source : Paul Verlaine (1981). “Paul Verlaine, his absinthe-tinted song”, Ams Pr Inc
“We simply thought that we would be considerably poorer in Europe if we didn't have the sacred buildings of earlier epochs. It's still possible to experience the Gothic period, not to mention the Romantic. Only nothing remains of the industrial age. So we thought that our photos would give the viewer the chance to go back to a time that is gone forever.”
“The only time I ever met a character that I wrote was when I met Ian McKellan, when he was playing Magneto in the 'X-Men' movies.”
“[W]e live in a century in which everything has been said. The challenge today is to learn which statements to deny.”

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