"The world is only one poor harvest away from chaos. We are so close to the edge that politically destabilising food prices could come at any time"

-- Robert Zoellick

#World Quotes #Chaos Quotes #Harvest Quotes

“In the end, it all comes down to the art of breathing.”
“In order to avoid contention, never contradict anyone, except in case of sin or some danger to a neighbor; and when necessary to contradict others, and to oppose your opinion to theirs, do it with so much mildness and tact, as not to appear to do violence to their mind, for nothing is ever gained by taking up things with excessive warmth and hastiness.”
“For me there was-is-nothing better than walking on the beach late at night. It feels like you could walk forever, like the whole night is yours and so is the ocean. When you walk on the beach at night, you can say things you can't say in real life. In the dark you can feel really close to a person. You can say whatever you want.”

Source : Jenny Han (2010). “The Summer I Turned Pretty”, p.171, Simon and Schuster
“While I'd like to make movies that are uplifting, there's always that part of you that goes, 'I want to play the evil guy because it's not me.' So anything that is not me is a challenge, and if I rise to the challenge, then I've kind of proved myself.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“How comes it to pass, if they be only moved by chance and accident, that such regular mutations and generations should be begotten by a fortuitous concourse of atoms.”

Source : John Smith, Simon Patrick, John Worthington (1821). “Select discourses”, p.53
“If a guy is gonna to play good bop, he has to have a sort of a bop soul.”
“Cafeteria-style education, combined with the unwillingness of our schools to place demands on students, has resulted in a steady diminishment of commonly shared information between generations and between young people themselves.”
“The thing with Ridley [Scott] is he's been doing this forever, he knows what it is he wants and how to get it. There's absolutely no messing around on set. Having said that, he's very accessible to actors, very open to what you want to do and willing to t.”

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