quotes about External Forces

“Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”

“There is no substitution for hustle, and if you don't hustle there will be substitution”

“Sooner or later usually means too late”

“Latin American countries are part of the West and that it is reasonable to expect a certain degree of openness in their societies that we do not demand of, say, China or Vietnam.”

Source : "Post-Fidel Plans for U.S.-Cuba Relations, Migration Policy". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. August 2, 2007.

“I carried it (a revolver) religiously and during the summer I asked a friend, a man who had been one of Franklin's bodyguards in New York State, to give me some practice in target shooting so that if the need arose I would know how to use the gun.”

“It may not seem that way, but I am an absolute optimist, an unrepentant optimist.”

“And everybody’s running around talking about ‘Zionists’ all day. Okay, just keep parroting that over and over again.”

“Guilt can make you doubt yourself at the very moment when you need to proceed with certainty.”

“I just know I'm too much of a wuss for Stephen King's books. I'm way too chicken to read horror.”

“How strange it seems that education, in practice, so often means suppression: that instead of leading the mind outward to the light of day it crowds things in upon it that darken and weary it.”

Source : Louis Sullivan, Robert Twombly (1988). “The Public Papers”, p.88, University of Chicago Press