#ski

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened. ↗

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

#asking #bad #different #final #final analysis

In terms of asking questions, I plead guilty. I ask a hell of a lot of questions. That's my job. ↗

— Dick Cheney

#asking #asking questions #guilty #hell #i

When you are in the family... you have more rights than when you are asking to join and knocking on the door. ↗

— Jacques Chirac

#door #family #join #knocking #more

I learnt the theory of movement, which I still teach sometimes. I was very, very ambitious to learn a skill. ↗

— Diane Cilento

#i #learn #learnt #movement #skill

We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed to forget the feuds of a thousand years. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#between #blood #europe #flowed #forget

A general is a specialist insofar as he has master his craft. Beyond that and outside the arbitrary pro and con, he keeps a third possibility intact and in reserve: his own substance. He knows more than what he embodies and teaches, has other skills along with the ones for which he is paid. He keeps all that to himself; it is his property. It is set aside for his leisure, his soliloquies, his nights. At a propitious moment, he will put it into action, tear off his mask. So far, he has been racing well; within sight is the finish line, his final reserves start pouring in. Fate challenges him; he responds. The dream, even in an erotic encounter, comes true. But causally, even here; every goal is a transition for him. The bow should snap rather than aiming the arrow at a finite target. ↗

— Ernst Jünger

#man #skill #strength #dreams

If life were fair, Dan Quayle would be making a living asking 'Do you want fries with that?' ↗

— John Cleese

#dan #dan quayle #fair #fries #life

I will not accept a new wave of fiscal retrenchment, of belt-tightening, without asking people at the top to make their contribution, to make an additional contribution. I don't think you can ask people on middle and low incomes, who, after all, are the vast majority of the British population, to bear the brunt of this adjustment. ↗

— Nick Clegg

#additional #adjustment #after #ask #asking

Asking an artist to talk about his work is like asking a plant to discuss horticulture. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#artist #asking #discuss #his #horticulture

Polanski was very precise. I think he still is. ↗

— Catherine Deneuve

#i think #polanski #precise #still #think