Boy Meets Girl Leos Carax Quotes & Sayings

The real power is power over men. How does one man assert his power over another, Winston? By making him suffer. Obedience is not enough. Unless he is suffering, how can you be sure that he is obeying your will and not his own? Power is in inflicting pain and humiliation. Power is tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together in new shapes of your choosing." (Orwell) — Victoria Louise Sadler

Love is an abstract noun, something nebulous. And yet love turns out to be the only part of us that is solid, as the world turns upside down and the screen goes black. — Martin Amis

That's the difference between artists and the rest of us, I think. Artists know where to put the shadows. — John David Anderson

Though wrong gratifies in the moment, good yields its gifts over a lifetime. — Desmond Tutu

I came out for exercise, gentle exercise, and to notice the scenery and to botanise. And no sooner do I get on that accursed machine than off I go hammer and tongs; I never look to right or left, never notice a flower, never see a view - get hot, juicy, red - like a grilled chop. Get me on that machine and I have to go. I go scorching along the road, and cursing aloud at myself for doing it. — H.G.Wells

One shouldn't despair over the fact that some of the developments one has hoped for were never produced but only became a beginning. Perhaps they will be revived some day in the future if necessary or reasonable, when the time is ripe — Finn Juhl

The Obama administration has vastly expanded the use of armed drones and concentrated a great deal of diplomatic effort on building and maintaining alliances that share information about terrorists, provide access to get near them, and then strike against them. — Elliott Abrams

We pray that henceforth not only Japan but all mankind may know the blessings of harmony and progress. — Shigeru Yoshida

Working away from my husband for long periods is good and bad. It stops us taking each other for granted and gives us space, but I miss him terribly. — Helen Mirren