"You have deceived our trust, and made us doff our easy robes of peace, to crush our old limbs in ungentle steel."

-- Henry Bolingbroke

#Crush Quotes #War Quotes #Steel Quotes

“Today is one of those excellent January partly cloudies in which light chooses an unexpected part of the landscape to trick out in gilt, and then the shadow sweeps it away. You know you're alive. You take huge steps, trying to feel the planet's roundness arc between your feet.”
“Mrs. [Indira] Gandhi can rightly boast of having won a war, but if she won it, she should first of all thank Yahya Khan and his gang of illiterate psychopaths.”

Source : Source: dhakadigest.net
“Hard news really is hard. It sticks not in the craw but in the mind. It has an almost physical effect, causing fear, interest, laughter or shock.”

Source : Andrew Marr (2009). “My Trade: A Short History of British Journalism”, p.50, Pan Macmillan
“Good mothers and good fathers and good families don't always have great children.”

Source : "Cissy Houston on Whitney: 'She was raised well, she knew better' than to use drugs" by Randee Dawn, www.today.com. October 14, 2016.
“The genuine values in America arose from rational thought and breaking with tradition, not from blind allegiance to dirt and cloth.”
“Acting is a sport. On stage you must be ready to move like a tennis player on his toes. Your concentration must be keen, your reflexes sharp; your body and mind are in top gear, the chase is on. Acting is energy. In the theatre people pay to see energy.”
“Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world only, our own, we see that world multiply itself and we have at our disposal as many worlds as there are original artists, worlds more different one from the other than those which revolve in infinite space, worlds which, centuries after the extinction of the fire from which their light first emanated, whether it is called Rembrandt or Vermeer, send us still each one its special radiance.”

Source : Marcel Proust (2015). “Remembrance of Things Past Time Regained”, p.161, Marcel Proust
“My relatives used to laugh when I talked of being a writer.”

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