"I couldn't regard myself as personally repulsive. No man can, or, if he ever comes to do so, that is the end of him."

-- Ford Madox Ford

#Men Quotes #Ends Quotes

“Whetstones are not themselves able to cut, but make iron sharp and capable of cutting.”
“It's extraordinary to think that if you walked into a room and said you had never heard of Hamlet, you would be regarded as a Philistine. But you could walk into the same room and say, 'I don't know what a proton is,' and people would just laugh and say, 'Why should you know?'”
“Witch hunters is white womenâ€™s worry.”
“It was during a cosmetic procedure that I first had painkillers.”
“To be disciplined does not mean being silent, abstaining, or doing only what one thinks one may undertake without risk; it is not the art of eluding responsibility ; it means acting in compliance with orders received, and therefore finding in one's own mind, by effort and reflection, the possibility to carry out such orders. It also means finding in one's own will the energy to face the risks involved in execution.”

Source : "Precepts and Judgments". Book by Ferdinand Foch, 1919.
“I think I was respectful to my father in that I only told the portions that he had already told. So, I never went outside of the things that he had already stated in his article because then I think it becomes unfair.”
“I know it's easier to portray a world filled with cynicism and anger, where problems are solved with violence...It's an easy out. What's a whole lot tougher is to offer alternatives, to present other ways conflicts can be resolved, and to show you can have a positive impact on your world. To do that, you have to put yourself out on a limb, take chances, and run the risk of being called a do-gooder.”
“Leaves hung in the stillness like hands of the newly dead.”

Source : Erik Larson (2010). “The Devil In The White City”, p.386, Random House

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