"Wind and words. We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our great glory, and our great tragedy."

-- George R. R. Martin

#Wind Quotes #Tragedy Quotes #Glory Quotes

“As man acts, God reacts.”
“Attention is the opium of the people”
“Whether it's Batman, Superman, Watchmen, the 300 story, we just make stuff that I want to see.”
“It is not expensive to be beautiful. It takes only a little effort to be presentable and beautiful. But it takes some effort. And unfortunately people think of beauty as luxury, beauty as frivolity, ... or extravagance. Beauty is a discipline, beauty is art, is harmony, in the ideological sense and in the theological sense, beauty is God and love made real. And the ultimate reach in this world is beauty.”

Source : "Imelda". Documentary, Biography, 2003.
“In an age of computer manipulation, surrealism has become banal, a shadow of its former self.”
“We must rouse in our people the unanimous wish for power in this sense, together with the determination to sacrifice on the altar of patriotism, not only life and property, but also private views and preferences in the interests of the common welfare.”

Source : Friedrich von Bernhardi (1914). “Germany and the Next War”
“Certain knowledge of what to fight for, and what to fight against, gives meaning to life and provides its own version of discipline: never give up. That kind of meaning is illusory, I now believe, and blinkered. Fealty to a mystical absolute is a formula for disaster, especially in transformative times.”
“Terrorists hate Americans. Indians hate each other. A terrorist will blow up an airport. Indians like to work at the airport. That would be counter-productive.”

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