"The limitation upon this mode of promoting peace lies in the fact that it consists in an appeal to the civilized side of man, while war is the product of forces proceeding from man's original savage nature."

-- Elihu Root

#War Quotes #Lying Quotes #Men Quotes

“A library could show you everything if you knew where to look.”
“For the happy man prayer is only a jumble of words, until the day when sorrow comes to explain to him the sublime language by means of which he speaks to God.”
“I was unfashionable before anyone knew who I was.”
“Sincerity doesn't mean anything. A person can be sincere and be more destructive than a person who is insincere.”

Source : Edward Albee, Philip C. Kolin (1988). “Conversations with Edward Albee”, p.12, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“To sing is to love and affirm, to fly and to soar, to coast into the hearts of the people who listen to tell them that life is to live, that love is there, that nothing is a promise, but that beauty exists, and must be hunted for and found.”

Source : Joan Baez (1968). “DAYBREAK”
“It may take hundreds of pages before you begin to get a handle on the craft of writing, and your first scripts may not work. The next five to twenty may not either. However, the ones that do work owe everything to the ones that didn't.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I fooled around with Heath Ledger and Michelle Williams got pregnant.”
“Not Eve, whose fault was only too much love, Which made her give this present to her dear, That what she tasted he likewise might prove, Whereby his knowledge might become more clear; He never sought her weakness to reprove With those sharp words which he of God did hear; Yet men will boast of knowledge, which he took From Eve's fair hand, as from a learned book.”

Source : 1611 Salve Deus Ex Judaeorum,'Eve's Apology in Defense of Women'.

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