"Cheops' Law: Nothing ever gets built on schedule or within budget."

-- Robert A. Heinlein

#Law Quotes #Schedules Quotes #Megalomania Quotes

“Then down came the lid--the day was lost, for art, at Sarajevo. World-politics stepped in, and a war was started which has not ended yet: a "war to end war." But it merely ended art. It did not end war.”

Source : 1937 Blasting and Bombardiering, pt.5,'Toward an Art-Less Society'.
“She serves me a piece of it a few minutes out of the oven. A little steam rises from the slits on top. Sugar and spice - cinnamon - burned into the crust. But she's wearing these dark glasses in the kitchen at ten o'clock in the morning - everything nice - as she watches me break off a piece, bring it to my mouth, and blow on it. My daughter's kitchen, in winter. I fork the pie in and tell myself to stay out of it. She says she loves him. No way could it be worse.”
“Our economy is at war with many forms of life on earth, including human life. What the climate needs to avoid collapse is a contraction of humanity's use of resources; what our economic model demands to avoid collapse is unfettered expansion. Only one of these sets of rules can be changed, and it's not the laws of nature”

Source : Naomi Klein (2014). “This Changes Everything: Capitalism Vs. The Climate”, p.21, Simon and Schuster
“Writing comes more easily if you have something to say.”
“I die without seeing dawn's light shining on my country... You, who will see it, welcome it for me...don't forget those who fell during the nighttime.”

Source : Jose Rizal (2006). “Noli Me Tangere (Touch Me Not)”, p.381, Penguin
“Poetry is prose bewitched, a music made of visual thoughts, the sound of an idea.”

Source : Mina Loy (2015). “The Lost Lunar Baedeker: Poems of Mina Loy”, p.157, Macmillan
“There comes a moment on a journey when something sweet, something irresistible and charming as wine raised to thirsty lips, wells up in the traveller's being.”

Source : MacGill, Patrick (2017). “The Amateur Army”, p.17, Read Books Ltd
“I'm a middle child, which is probably why I chose to be an actress. I needed the attention. I've got one older sister and a younger brother.”

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