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“Alfred Nobel's discoveries are characteristic; powerful explosives can help men perform admirable tasks. They are also a means to terrible destruction in the hands of the great criminals who lead peoples to war.”
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“It isn't the sign of a good sport to go out among other people when one has a cold: it is the sign of a selfish and ill-advised person.”
Source : Mary Elizabeth Clark, Margery Closey Quigley (1939). “Etiquette Every Child Should Know”
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“A lot of compelling stories in the world aren't being told, and the fact that people don't know about them compounds the suffering.”
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“I'm more into the Spawn toys. They're really cool. They're coming out with a Techno Spawn series and another series, The Dark Ages, which are really cool.”
Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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“Health care is vital to all of us some of the time, but public health is vital to all of us all of the time”
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“I had been afraid of breast cancer, as I suspect most women are, from the time I hit adolescence. At that age, when our emerging sexuality is our central preoccupation, the idea of disfigurement of a breast is particularly horrifying.”
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“I've been lucky because my films have consistently made a profit, almost all of them have made a profit. Never a huge profit, but nobody gets hurt. And therefore I get a lot of freedom.”
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“Be careful how you do one man a pleasure which must needs occasion equal displeasure in another. For he who is thus slighted will not forget, but will think the offence to himself the greater in that another profits by it; while he who receives the pleasure will either not remember it, or will consider the favour done him less than it really was.”
Source : Francesco Guicciardini (1890). “Counsels and Reflections of Francesco Guicciardini”