"And the terror itself is an example of the world's uncontrollability."

-- Ulrich Beck

#World Quotes #Example Quotes #Terror Quotes

“I kind of hate the fact that people are always trying to put you into a category. I hate walls, and I hate boundaries. I don't like that. I listen to everything.”
“March came in that winter like the meekest and mildest of lambs, bringing days that were crisp and golden and tingling, each followed by a frosty pink twilight which gradually lost itself in an elfland of moonshine.”
“When I got through, Duke Ellington stood up and started the applause.”
“If you are not getting better, you are getting left behind.”
“In consciousness dwells the wondrous, with it man attains the realm beyond the material, and the Peyote tells us, where to find it.”
“We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd.”

Source : Lawrence Durrell (2012). “The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea”, p.70, Faber & Faber
“Government is saying to the average citizen every January 1: 'For the next five months you'll be working for us, for goals we shall determine. Is that clear? After May 5 you may look after your own needs and ambitions, but report back to us next January. Now move along.' ... If nearly half of what you make is spent by someone else, that means that half your work time is spent working for someone else. Call me a radical, but I think that comes dangerously close to being a form of indentured servitude.”
“The intelligence failures with respect to Iraq were massive and have damaged our credibility around the world”

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