"There are men put on this earth to make laws designed to break the spirits of men. There are those put here to have their spirits broken by those put here to break them. Then there are those who are here to break the laws that break the men who break the spirits of other men. I am one of those men. - Harry West"

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Source : Steve Toltz (2008). “A Fraction of the Whole”, p.132, Spiegel & Grau

Steve Toltz

#Men Quotes #Law Quotes #Broken Quotes

“The real attitude of sin in the heart towards God is that of being without God; it is pride, the worship of myself, that is the great atheistic fact in human life.”
“Scientists try to discover or unravel the mysteries of nature. Some of the problems we are trying to solve have been solved in nature.”
“At a very young age, I was in Germany watching TV and I told my mom I wanted to be an actor. She said, 'Go for it.' When my dad retired from the military, we moved to Los Angeles, and it all kicked off.”
“I hated high school and got to college and realized they didn't care if I showed up because I'd already paid. So I decided, 'I'm going to turn this around.' And I did: I got straight A's and was named 'outstanding senior.”

Source : "_NCIS___' Tattooed Abby Defies Stereotypes__". Interview with Mark Morrison, www.tvguide.com. December 4, 2007.
“You have to hope that your opponents are unlucky. Never only rely on your own luck.”

Source : "In conversation - Bernie Ecclestone and Nico Rosberg". Interview With Nico Rosberg, www.formula1.com. May 24, 2015.
“After finishing the work I start rearranging the parts again and eventually start to work with themes - images and thoughts and things.”
“This is all about a media war that continues to rage between the old and new media. Unfortunately for our soldiers, these brave Americans are caught in the crossfire”
“My father is a cultural anthropologist and my mother ran an outpatient clinic and treated a lot of people who had been institutionalised. I was very fascinated with behaviour and criminology and why people do things that don't make any sense. I would probe my mother: "Why? Why would somebody do this?" And look for some causality between someone's mental state and their behaviour. I think it had a lot of influence on me.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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