"This book has been a catalogue of mistakes by politicians, moral and practical disasters which led to wars, enslavement and wretchedness on a scale which no previous age could have dreaded or dreamed of."

-- A. N. Wilson

#War Quotes #Mistake Quotes #Book Quotes

“We may seem great in an employment below our worth, but we very often look little in one that is too big for us.”
“I turned off the talking politicos. Too much jabbering at each other. Not enough care about humans.”
“It is often asserted that woman owes all the advantages of the position she occupies to-day to Christianity, but the facts of history show that the Christian Church has done nothing specifically for woman's elevation. In the general march of civilization, she has necessarily reaped the advantage of man's higher development, but we must not claim for Christianity all that has been achieved by science, discovery and invention.”
“You know how fussy and particular I am in painting. I am ever removing the paint and repainting the spot until I am completely exhausted.”

Source : "Movements in art since 1945". Book by Edward Lucie-Smith, p. 15, 1975.
“Forest, I fear you! In my ruined heart your roaring wakens the same agony as in cathedrals when the organ moans and from the depths I hear that I am damned.”
“Nolan Ryan is pitching much better now that he has his curve ball straightened out.”
“There has been Anti-Semitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault? They see but one thing: we have come and we have stolen their country. Why would they accept that?”
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