“I think every case is different. Every situation is different. People come on the F.B.I.'s radar screen for a variety of reasons at a variety of times.”
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Thoughtful Quotes — page 95 of 303
“Narrow your life down to this moment. Your life situation may be full of problems - most life situations are - but find out if you have a problem at this moment. Do you have a problem now?”
“Humans eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and bad. Suddenly, they start cutting reality up into bits and pieces, which is what the thinking mind does.”
“When mouths close, it’s because there’s something important to be said.”
“The world is divided into those who understand me and those who don’t. In the case of the latter, I simply leave them to torment themselves trying to gain my sympathy.”
“I think it is important to maintain your personality, your roots, very important.”
“Just as things in a picture, when viewed from a distance, appear to be all in one and the same condition and alike.”
“We ought to be guarded against every appearance of envy, as a passion that always implies inferiority wherever it resides.”
“Let a man use great reverence and manners to himself.”
“It's slightly complicated for people to grasp the idea of a head of state in human form.”
“I've always been told I was extremely well-behaved as a kid.”
“To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so much by truth as by preference, and good and evil report alike know no bounds.”
“We had many more points of agreement than we had points of difference, but we did differ, and the bigger we got, the more insistent we got that each one of us should have his way.”
“I think Bridge Over Troubled Water was a very good song. Artie sang it beautifully. The Boxer was a really nice record. But I don't think I've written any great songs.”
“The most important part of a story is the piece of it you don't know.”
“Culture is a slingshot moved by the force of its past”
“Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them.”
“Sound-- That stealeth ever on the ear of him Who, musing, gazeth on the distance dim, And sees the darkness coming as a cloud-- Is not its form--its voice--most palpable and loud?”
“We now demand the light artillery of the intellect; we need the curt, the condensed, the pointed, the readily diffused - in place of the verbose, the detailed, the voluminous, the inaccessible. On the other hand, the lightness of the artillery should not degenerate into pop-gunnery - by which term we may designate the character of the greater portion of the newspaper press - their sole legitimate object being the discussion of ephemeral matters in an ephemeral manner.”
“To see distinctly the machinery--the wheels and pinions--of any work of Art is, unquestionably, of itself, a pleasure, but one which we are able to enjoy only just in proportion as we do not enjoy the legitimate effect designed by the artist.”