Despite all the achievements of civilisation, the human being is still one of the most vulnerable creatures on earth.
VLADIMIR PUTINYale’s greatness carries an urgent need to guard against the fall of excellence into exclusivity, of refinement into preciousness, of elegance into class and convention.
More Benno C. Schmidt, Jr. Quotes
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Despite all the pain from your past, may you never lose the heart to love and trust.
JUANA GARCIA -
You have been the last dream of my soul.
CHARLES DICKENS -
Statesman only talk of fate when they have blundered
BENITO MUSSOLINI -
A lot of people heard ‘Murda Business’ and thought it was about killing people, trying to be tough and hardcore. If you actually listen to the lyrics, it’s kind of silly and playful.
IGGY AZALEA -
Wow, bad news. Mr. Obama now hates Israel because the Israelis want to build 1,600 apartments in their own capital city, Jerusalem. Russia hates Israel, too. So do the Europeans. So does Ban Ki-moon, a Korean who is secretary-general of the UN.
BEN STEIN -
There are things we sacrifice for love, that we willingly give. But no one who loves you will ever ask you to give up more than you are willing.
LANG LEAV -
I set myself that decision, otherwise I’m driving an opinion at you, and I think that would be treating you like you’re an idiot. I don’t want to force-feed you my opinion.
TOM HARDY -
I’ve been screaming at the top of my lungs at my family, ‘Work out! Work out! Old age is coming!’
CHER -
I am from the jungle where the lion eats the cobra.
LIL WAYNE -
I will play my part by singing the spirit into every open heart.
BOBBY WOMACK -
Luckily, I’s learned at an early age that self-preservation was the only way to survive with your soul intact.
ABBI GLINES -
Of all the needs that we have right now, more than anything we need a time for love.
STEVIE WONDER -
I’ve never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin.
ALAN BENNETT -
All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just.
BOETHIUS -
I’d never win painting contests. I remember losing to a guy who did a perfect Spiderman.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT