"I recognize no empire of this present age."

-- Paul Speratus

#Age Quotes #Violence Quotes #Empires Quotes

“I don't hate homosexuals. I love homosexuals. It's the sin of homosexuality I hate.”
“It's easy for people to strike if they're not working on a regular basis.”
“We didn't, with 'Will & Grace,' set out to change the gay world. We just set out to be funny.”
“Any of us will put out more and better ideas if our efforts are appreciated.”

Source : Alex Faickney Osborn (1960). “Applied imagination: principles and procedures of creative problem-solving”
“I sat there beside him till morning - and as I watched his face in the starlight, then the first ray of the sun on his untroubled forehead and closed eyelids, what I experienced was not a prayer, I do not pray, but that state of spirit at which a prayer is a misguided attempt: a full, confident, affirming self-dedication to my love of the right, to the certainty that the right would win and that this boy would have the kind of future he deserved. . . . I did not expect it to be as great as this - or as hard.”
“There were a lot of gods. Gods always come in handy, they justify almost anything.”
“You're always frustrated, you don't have the chance to do a song on the album, like the Beatles did with Ringo and George, or like Led Zeppelin, where everybody was given a chance to contribute. There never is a chance with the Stones.”
“A boy can be two, three, four potential people, but a man is only one. He murders the others.”

Source : Mordecai Richler (1999). “The Apprenticeship Of Duddy Kravitz”, p.328, Simon and Schuster

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