quotes about Seventies

“Now there’s a joy inside I can’t contain But even perfect days can end in rain And though it’s pouring down I see You through the clouds Shining on my face.”

“The idea of a company that's earning money, not losing money, that's not, let's say 'industrially endangered,' to have just cutbacks so they can earn another $12 million or $20 million or $40 million in a year where no one's counting is really a horrible act when you think about it on every level. First of all, it's certainly not necessary. It's doing it at the worst time. It's throwing people out to a larger, what is inevitably a larger unemployment heap for frankly no good reason.”

“Commending the victims to almighty God's mercy, I implore his strength upon all involved in rescue efforts and in caring for the survivors.”

“I try to simplify things for the children. For instance, [I arrange] for them to have almost no dialogue, or to somehow give them very precise indications, because usually they ask for that.”

“Go forward until the last round is fired and the last drop of gas is expended...then go forward on foot!”

“The law must have the last word.”

Source : "France braced for 12th night of riots" by James Sturcke, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2005.

“We shall be remembered in history as the most cruel, and therefore the most unwise, generation of men that ever yet troubled the earth: the most cruel in proportion to their sensibility, the most unwise in proportion to their science. No people, understanding pain, ever inflicted so much: no people, understanding facts, ever acted on them so little.”

“The problem with being a modern woman, I thought, as the front door swung wide, is that you have to pretend to be stronger than you are.”

“The glory of God's faithfulness is that no sin of ours has ever made Him unfaithful.”

“You have to be a bit of a liar to tell a story the right way.”