"'Brave' is one of those words that has been bleached of most of its meaning these days, thanks to far too many appearances in the glaring light of ad slogans and corporate public relations. I never thought about anything as brave anymore; it just seemed like a flabby, glib cliche."

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Source : "Tim Hetherington, “Restrepo,” and Bravery" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. April 21, 2011.

Susan Orlean

#Light Quotes #Brave Quotes #Thanks Quotes

“37 is a lumpy number, a bit like porridge. Six is very small and dark and cold, and whenever I was little trying to understand what sadness is I would imagine myself inside a number six and having that experience of cold and darkness. Similarly, number four is a shy number.”
“Everybody who knows Formula 1 knows McLaren and knows that it is the greatest team in Formula 1.”

Source : Interview with James Galloway, www.skysports.com. October 1, 2013.
“I was brought up in a household with sir and ma'am.”
“I didn't like seeing you with him" he says. "I don't think I'd like seeing you with any other guy....beside me.”
“I am the least intimidating person. I think I would have done better in my career if I were a little more intimidating. Even the maid who comes to work for me once a week has found out that she can just trample over me... Im a Cancer! We are not ferocious people.”
“There is a beauty in discovery. There is mathematics in music, a kinship of science and poetry in the description of nature, and exquisite form in a molecule. Attempts to place different disciplines in different camps are revealed as artificial in the face of the unity of knowledge. All literate men are sustained by the philosopher, the historian, the political analyst, the economist, the scientist, the poet, the artisan and the musician.”

Source : "Biographical Memoirs" edited by Darleane C. Hoffman, (p. 252), 2000.
“You can say that a small attack is one in which relatively few people die, but the minute you say that, you can sense the ironies in that statement. A blast in which five people are killed is a meaningful blast.”
“I'm terrible at posting regularly; I don't deserve the blog success!”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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