"As a matter of fact we have to take special precautions during a battle to post police, to prevent more unwounded men than are necessary from accompanying a wounded man back from the firing line."

-- Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig

#War Quotes #Men Quotes #Police Quotes

“Our normal tendency is to feel dissatisfied and to criticize our body, speech, and mind - My body is out of shape; my voice is unpleasant; my mind is confused. - We are so caught up in this pointless, neurotic habit of criticism that we disparage others as well as ourselves. This is extremely damaging.”

Source : Thubten Yeshe (2005). “Introduction to Tantra: The Transformation of Desire”, p.116, Simon and Schuster
“We all have some experience of a feeling, that comes over us occasionally, of what we are saying and doing having been said and done before, in a remote time - of our having been surrounded, dim ages ago, by the same faces, objects, and circumstances.”
“If nothing is serious anymore, then there's nothing to satirize.”
“What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.”
“When a writer talks about his work, he's talking about a love affair.”
“The sexual wishes in regard to the mother become more intense and the father is perceived as an obstacle to the; this gives rise to the Oedipus complex.”
“The moon glows on the river, wind rustles the pines. Long night clear evening--what are they for?”
“When people are old enough to know better they are old enough to do worse.”

Source : Hesketh Pearson (1965). “Hesketh Pearson by Himself. (1. Ed.)”, London : Heinemann

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