#la

When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#claimed #everything #happens #right #war

To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#build #day #destroy #laborious #may

Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#energies #left #new #new world #old

I remember that during the period leading up to independence in Angola in 1975, I was the only correspondent there at all for three months. ↗

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

#correspondent #during #i #i remember #independence

We criticize Americans for not being able either to analyse or conceptualize. But this is a wrong-headed critique. It is we who imagine that everything culminates in transcendence, and that nothing exists which has not been conceptualized. Not only do they care little for such a view, but their perspective is the very opposite: it is not conceptualizing reality, but realizing concepts and materializing ideas, that interests them. The ideas of the religion and enlightened morality of the eighteenth century certainly, but also dreams, scientific values, and sexual perversions. Materializing freedom, but also the unconscious. Our phantasies around space and fiction, but also our phantasies of sincerity and virtue, or our mad dreams of technicity. Everything that has been dreamt on this side of the Atlantic has a chance of being realized on the other. They build the real out of ideas. We transform the real into ideas, or into ideology. ↗

— Jean Baudrillard

#baudrillard #sociology #dreams

I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#already #always #avoid #because #beforehand

Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#birmingham #bore #chamberlain #europe #greater

Last year I was diagnosed with osteoporosis. ↗

— Sally Field

#i #last #last year #osteoporosis #year

Last year I was diagnosed with osteoporosis. I was over 50, Caucasian, thin, small-framed, and I have it in my genetic history. It was almost a slam-dunk. ↗

— Sally Field

#caucasian #diagnosed #genetic #history #i

My last son is leaving to go to college; my grandchildren are being born. My mother is living with me. ↗

— Sally Field

#born #college #go #grandchildren #last