quotes about Guillotine

“The older ones recently saw Mr and Mrs Smith and I think they thought that was the funniest thing they'd ever seen because, of course, watching your parents fight as spies is some strange sort of childhood fantasy.”

“Today, it is clear that Internet organizing is vital to our future success.”

“Israel of the coastal plain, where eight out of ten Israeli Jews live far removed from the occupied territories, from the fiery Jerusalem, from the religious and nationalistic conflicts, is unknown to the outside world, almost unknown to itself.”

“The distance runner is mysteriously reconciling the separations of body and mind, of pain and pleasure, of the conscious and the unconscious. He is repairing the rent, and healing the wound in his divided self. He has found a way to make the ordinary extraordinary; the commonplace unique; the everyday eternal.”

“I love movies with spectacle but spectacle can be a performance, it doesn't have to be a creature.”

“People working for a news organization, even those with a point of view, are supposed to exercise independent judgment.”

Source : "Donna Brazile's Resignation Illustrates Cable TV's Pundit Problem". "All Things Considered" with Audie Cornish, www.npr.org. November 2, 2016.

“With Woods arms wrapped around me and the beat of his heart pressed against my chest, I knew he would hold me steady. If I ever fell, I’d have him to catch me.”

“Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.”

“No man can become perfect until he knows his true nature. And the person who knows his or her true nature cannot be an imperfect.”

“Assuming that the future is like the past, you can outperform 80 percent of your fellow investors over the next several decades by investing in an index fund-and doing nothing else. But acquire the discipline to do something even better: become a long-term index fund investor.”