"The Marines have landed and the situation is well in hand."

-- Richard Harding Davis

#Marine Quotes #Hands Quotes #Situation Quotes

“Regret is an uneven hand, a rough palm at the cheek â€” tender and calloused.”

Source : Lorna Dee Cervantes (2013). “Sueno”, p.3, Wings Press
“In America, what makes us so successful is the innovation, the competition, the focus on merit.”

Source : "Condoleezza Rice: Education Could Be 'Greatest National Security Challenge'". "PBS Newshour", www.pbs.org. March 19, 2012.
“Rock 'n' roll is meant to entertain. Hippie folk singers are supposed to be singing about leftist views, but I don't think rock 'n' roll was ever that way. I don't remember the early rock 'n' rollers ever expressing any political views.”

Source : FaceBook post by Johnny Ramone from Feb 25, 2015
“A few years ago, the city council of Monza, Italy, barred pet owners from keeping goldfish in curved bowls... saying that it is cruel to keep a fish in a bowl with curved sides because, gazing out, the fish would have a distorted view of reality. But how do we know we have the true, undistorted picture of reality?”
“Mankind is ever the same, and nothing lost out of nature, though everything is altered.”
“The past shouldn't be forgotten. It should be used as a guide for future situations and not used as a reason to avoid making difficult decisions. There was always a choice.”
“We delude ourselves into believing that morality comes from somewhere else, whereas in reality we behave as we've been told to behave.”
“A love of classical music is only partially a natural response to hearing the works performed, it also must come about by a decision to listen carefully, to pay close attention, a decision inevitably motivated by the cultural and social prestige of the art.”

Source : Charles Rosen (2002). “Piano Notes: The World of the Pianist”, p.236, Simon and Schuster

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