"Republicans seems to me to be chiefly concerned with holding on to what they have: in society, it's position, or respectability, or what you will; in business, of course, it's profit."

-- Marya Mannes

#Party Quotes #Political Quotes #Holding On Quotes

“Our soul is not united to our body in the ordinary sense of these terms. It is immediately and directly united to God alone.”
“Only under conditions of revolutionary crises do you have the highest level of self-organization; this is the Soviet type of organization, which is to say, workers' councils, people's councils, call them what you want, popular committees.”

Source : Ernest Mandel (1994). “Revolutionary Marxism and social reality in the 20th century: collected essays”, Humanities Press Intl
“Not to be born is undoubtedly the best plan of all. Unfortunately, it is within no one's reach.”
“The most exciting thing I aspire to do is to write something new that I know is going to work, or perform something that I know is going to make people laugh.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I love this young people's music.”
“The American goes to Paris, always has, and comes back and tells his neighbor, always does, how exorbitant and inhospitable it is, how rapacious and selfish and unaccommodating and unresponsive it is, how dirty and noisy it is-and the next summer his neighbor goes to Paris.”
“I love the Shakespeare history plays; I love the struggle for the crown as a plot.”

Source : "Mark Gatiss: off with his head!". Interview with Mark Lawson, www.theguardian.com. October 21, 2012.
“There is a silence so great that I can hear the ice crystals cracking and falling from eyelashes of girls who will never blink again.”

Source : Lauren DeStefano (2013). “Sever”, p.286, Simon and Schuster

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