"You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you."

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Source : Eric Hoffer (1955). “The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms”

Eric Hoffer

#Clever Quotes #Fear Quotes #Mean Quotes

“The house you live in will never fall down, if you pity the stranger who stands at your door.”

Source : Song: The House You Live In, Album: Summertime Dream
“Try to remember it always," he said once Gogol had reached him, leading him slowly back across the breakwater, to where his mother and Sonia stood waiting. "Remember that you and I made this journey together to a place where there was nowhere left to go.”
“Listen to it, and you are hearing the mighty currents of the air rushing down the latitudes of the earth, currents from the Mackenzie and the Athabasca and the Saskatchewan, and from the prairies and the white Tundra. It is a homeless wind, forever on the move.”
“Space can be mapped and crossed and occupied without definable limit; but it can never be conquered.”
“Heaven has fashioned a knife of irony to stab me with.”

Source : Rachel Hartman (2012). “Seraphina”, p.104, Random House
“Seek for a fresh invoice of grace. Unbelief can scoff or growl; faith is the nightingale that sings in the darkest hour. Faith can draw honey out of the rock and oil out of the flint. With Christ in possession and heaven in reversion, it marches to the time of the One-hundred-and-third Psalm over the roughest road, and against the most cutting blast.”
“It seems to me that making escapist films might be a better service to people than making intellectual ones and making films that deal with issues. It might be better to just make escapist comedies that don't touch on any issues. The people just get a cool lemonade, and then they go out refreshed, they enjoy themselves, they forget how awful things are and it helps them - it strengthens them to get through the day.”
“It's always good to work where you're wanted. The times I've been where I wasn't wanted - that's just never a good experience.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com

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