"God forgive us-but most of us grew up to be the sort of men our mothers warned us against."

-- Brendan Behan

#Family Quotes #Mother Quotes #Men Quotes

“Miracles seldom occur in the lives of those who do not consider them possible.”
“If the machinery for distribution in the present economic system of the world is incapable of properly distributing the productive wealth of nations, then that system is false and must be altered.”

Source : "The Mind and Face of Nazi Germany" by Nagendranath Gangulee, (p. 165), 1942.
“If the monkeys had been concerned only with monkey Beings they would never have become men.”

Source : Harry Hooton (1961). “It is Great to be Alive”
“I love independent films, it's the only place as an actor you're totally allowed to breathe.”
“In theater, you've got to be aware of your whole body because it involves stamina. It involves two-and-a-half hours and a sustained release of energy, maybe for six months.”
“I can't blame modern technology for my predilection for distraction, not after all the hours I've spent watching lost balloons disappear into the clouds. I did it before the Internet, and I'll do it after the apocalypse, assuming we still have helium and weak-gripped children.”
“Country' and 'city' are very powerful words, and this is not surprising when we remember how much they seem to stand for in the experience of human communities. In English, 'country' is both a nation and a part of a 'land'; 'the country' can be the whole society or its rural area. In the long history of human settlements, this connection between the land from which directly or indirectly we all get our living and the achievements of human society has been deeply known.”

Source : Raymond Williams (1975). “The Country and the City”, p.1, Oxford University Press, USA
“Apparently when we enter the Earth existence, the third dimensional reality, we exist with a faÃ§ade as actors playing various roles. For some it is the adventure of the experience, the journey. For others it is entrapment in an illusion that takes on all the qualities of reality.”

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