Tactics...

"...by universal custom, your enemy is never more polite than when he is planning or has planned your destruction" ~James Clavell, "Shogun"

Timing

Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them. 


***Dion Boucicault

Discurs

"A great speech does not just capture the truth of its era; it can also capture the big lie"
(Un discurs maret nu imortalizeaza doar adevarul epocii sale; poate de asemenea sa imortalizeze marele neadevar)

*** Simon Sebag Montefiore

Caracter...

"Caracterul se poate manifesta in clipele marete, insa el e cultivat in fiecare clipa"

*** Winston Churchill

Mentori

"Without heroes we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go." 
(Fara eroi, suntem toti oameni simpli, si nu stim cat de departe putem ajunge)

*** Bernard Malamud

Acuratetea amintirilor

"Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were"
(Amintirea lucrurilor trecute nu inseamna neaparat amintirea lucrurilor, asa cum erau)

*** Marcel Proust

Gratie sau putere?

"Nothing is so strong as gentleness and nothing is so gentle as real strength."

*** Ralph W. Sockman

Incertitudine

"If I am what I have, and if I lose what I have, who then am I?"
(Daca sunt ceea ce am, si daca pierd ceea ce am, atunci cine sunt eu?)

*** Erich Fromm 

Sah

"In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate."

*** Isaac Asimov

Relativitate

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."


*** Ralph Waldo Emerson

Deformatie profesionala

"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."
(Cel care se lupta cu monstrii trebuie sa aiba grija sa nu devina el insusi un monstru. Daca te uiti foarte mult intr-un abis - abisul se uita de asemenea la tine)

*** Nietzsche

Ironia puterii

"Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical"
{Dreptatea fara putere este neputincioasa, puterea fara dreptate este tiranica)

*** Blaise Pascal

Indoieli

"A weak man has doubts before a decision. A strong man has them afterwards." 
(Un om slab are indoieli inaintea unei decizii. Un om puternic are indoieli dupa ce decide)


*** Karl Kraus

Paradox

"For those who believe, no proof is necessary. 
For those who don't believe, no proof is possible."

*** Stuart Chase

Schimbari

"All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves. We must die to one life before we can enter another."

*** Anatole France

Poduri

"We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered."

*** Tom Stoppard

Efemeritate

"Remember that all through history, there have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they seem invincible. But in the end, they always fall. 
Always."

*** Mahatma Gandhi

Calitate si cantitate

"In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. 
It's the life in your years."

*** Abraham Lincoln

Cine castiga?

"Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves."

*** Confucius 

Cine controleaza ce?

"A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses. 
It is an idea that possesses the mind."

*** Robert Oxton Bolton