Post Revisionist Cold War Quotes & Sayings

spell books and broomsticks? Might — J.K. Rowling

Photograph because you love doing it, because you absolutely have to do it, because the chief reward is going to be the process of doing it. Other rewards - recognition, financial remuneration - come to so few and are so fleeting ... Take photography on as a passion, not a career. — Alex Webb

If you wait for perfect conditions to seize an opportunity, you'll be waiting till the day you die. — Mark Batterson

Revolution
Is the affair of logical lunatics. — Wallace Stevens

I set out to write a screenplay but, since my early 20s, had dreamed of writing a novel. — Graeme Simsion

The bottom line is, I'm blessed with good health. On top of that, I don't go around thinking 'Oh, I'm 90, I better do this or I better do that.' I'm just Betty. I'm the same Betty that I've always been. Take it or leave it. — Betty White

I no longer knew what was real and what wasn't. The lines between reality and delusion had become so blurred. — A.B. Shepherd

Until August the Luftwaffe had raided only ports and airfields. Fitz had explained, in an unusually candid moment, that the British were not so scrupulous: the government had approved bombing of targets in German cities back in May, and all through June and July the RAF had dropped bombs on women and children in their homes. The German public had been enraged by this and demanded retaliation. The Blitz was the result. — Ken Follett

While Ross and Cockburn were hastily burning the White House and Department buildings, anxious only to escape, and never sending more than two hundred soldiers beyond Capitol Square, the President, his Cabinet, his generals, and his army were performing movements at which even the American people, though outraged and exasperated beyond endurance, could not but laugh. — Henry Adams

A warrior of light respects the main teaching of the I Ching: 'To persevere is favourable.'
He knows that perseverance is not the same thing as insistence. There are
times when battles go on longer than necessary, draining him of strength and
enthusiasm.
At such moments, the warrior thinks: 'A prolonged war finally destroys the
victors too.'
Then he withdraws his forces from the battlefield and allows himself a
respite. He perseveres in his desire, but knows he must wait for the best moment to attack.
A warrior always returns to the fray. He never does so out of stubbornness,
but because he has noticed a change in the weather. — Paulo Coelho

I like to think of my house as nothing more than a glorified console for my television; the ultimate stereo cabinet. — Drew Carey

You can't hate those who are harming themselves. Instead you pity them and try to help them if you can. — Darren Shan

Quite a lot of British women stop working when they have children, and that is rarely the case in Denmark. We have a very flat, structured way of approaching everything. Nobody's the boss. In a sense, we're all equal. — Birgitte Hjort Sorensen