"I think a lot of the guys I know and a lot of people I've talked to, what they want is very often what most people want, a kind of simple life, a livelihood, a family, people who care about them, people they can care about. I think vets on the whole want the same things that everybody else does."

-- Kevin Powers

#Simple Quotes #Thinking Quotes #People Quotes

“I only aim for fashion that's long dead.”

Source : "Mad Men Secrets from Harry Crane". Interview with J.Rentilly, www.menshealth.com. April 5, 2013.
“I think the biggest hole is in criticism. I think there should be more informed criticism. Part of the problem is that in the '90s, the newspapers started losing their A-section and department-store advertising, and that paid for fashion writers and for the big feature space.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“So deeply inherent is it in this life of ours that men have to suffer for each other's sins, so inevitably diffusive is human suffering, that even justice makes its victims, and we can conceive no retribution that does not spread beyond its mark in pulsations of unmerited pain.”
“No one can look at a pine tree in winter without knowing that spring will come again in due time.”

Source : Frank Bolles (1896). “At the north of Bearcamp Water Chronicles of a stroller in New England from July to December”
“We should ask ourselves three questions before we speak: Is it true? Is it kind? Does it glorify Christ?”

Source : FaceBook post by Billy Graham from Feb 19, 2015
“I'm still not sure I want to be a writer. I think of myself as a storyteller more.”
“Translators have to prove to themselves as to others that they are in control of what they do; that they do not just translate well because they have a "flair" for translation, but rather because, like other professionals, they have made a conscious effort to understand various aspects of their work.”
“The authenticity aspect is pretty important to me. When we have to compromise and do something that's not authentic, it really rubs me, every time I have to see it in the edit, which is millions of times.”

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