"I've never been shot, but this probably what it feels like, that second of nothingness right before the pain catches up to the bullet."

-- Jonathan Tropper

#Pain Quotes #Bullets Quotes #Shots Quotes

“Although both sides of my family were religious, I was never forced to practice the Jewish faith. I did not really rebel against it, but then, as today, I disliked organized religion. I have a strange inhibition about praying with others.”

Source : Georg Solti, Harvey Sachs (1997). “Solti on Solti: a memoir”, Vintage
“The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels and God, and at liberty when of Devils and Hell, is because he was a true poet and of the Devil's party without knowing it.”
“Everybody who's ever done anything bad to me, anything that ever went wrong, I try to take it out on somebody-every game. It's like when you see Michael Jordan's highlights and your hair sits up on your arms? I'm like that the whole game.”
“The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld.”
“Britain, the first industrial nation, had offered the world a remarkable public experiment in liberal, capitalist democracy whose success was premised upon free trade and world peace. Tuesday, 4 August 1914 brought that experiment to an abrupt halt.”

Source : Kenneth O. Morgan (1984). “The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain”, p.522, Oxford University Press, USA
“I congratulate NUS for launching a new degree, a bachelor of environmental studies. This is a most timely initiative. One of the biggest challenges facing Asia is to reconcile Asia's rapid economic development with care for the environment.”
“I think backwards. "This was beautiful." Instead of forward.”
“Ah, mastery... what a profoundly satisfying feeling when one finally gets on top of a new set of skills... and then sees the light under the new door those skills can open, even as another door is closing.”

Source : Gail Sheehy (2011). “New Passages: Mapping Your Life Across Time”, p.198, Ballantine Books

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