"It would be unjust, and moreover Utopian, for Shakespeare to direct the shoemakers' union. But it would be equally disastrous forthe shoemakers' union to ignore Shakespeare."

-- Albert Camus

#Would Be Quotes #Unions Quotes #Unjust Quotes

“Time only moves in one direction. Remember that. Things always change.”

Source : Mohsin Hamid (2007). “The Reluctant Fundamentalist”, p.96, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“For we can affirm with a good conscience that we have, after reading the Holy Scripture, applied ourselves and yet daily apply ourselves to the extent that the grace of the Lord permits to inquiry into and investigation of the consensus of the true and purer antiquity.”

Source : Martin Chemnitz (1971). “Examination of the Council of Trent”
“I did 125 films, and over 100 television shows, and you've never seen the same character twice.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“World-class performance comes by striving for a target just out of reach, but with a vivid awareness of how the gap might be breached.Â Over time, through constant repetition and deep concentration, the gap will disappear, only for a new target to be created, just out of reach once again.”
“The main thing is to make history, not to write it.”
“But in the first Gulf war the United Kingdom was not under any threat from Iraq, and is still less so in the second one. Then there is no justification for obstructing freedom of information, particularly as nations have a right to know what their soldiers are being used for.”
“That moment was very important because it was political. That's what has to be done, so they struck a deal. She figures his is a well-thought-out motivation that she felt was worthy trade-off. The motivation here is survival, and she has to think like a leader.”
“If a work of art is to be truly immortal, it must pass quite beyond the limits of the human world, without any sign of common sense and logic. In this way the work will draw nearer to dream and to the mind of a child.”

Source : Quoted in Saranne Alexandrian Surrealist Art (1970).

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