"There is no such thing as happiness. Life bends joy and pain, beauty and ugliness, in such a way that no one may isolate them. No one should want to. Perfect joy, or perfect pain, with no contrasting element to define them, would mean a monotony of consciousness, would mean death"

-- Jean Toomer

#Pain Quotes #Mean Quotes #Perfect Quotes

“I only really fake it anymore with sommeliers who are being really snotty to me and I don't want to take their grief and so I try to do something to kind of throw them off or put them on the defensive, even if I don't know what I'm talking about”
“A feminist man is a bit like a vegetarian: it's the humanitarian principle he's defending, I suppose.”
“Those who skim over the surface in a hit-or-miss fashion not only forfeit the best returns on their efforts, but are ever barred from the keen pleasure of seeing beauty in the results of their labor.”
“Yes, you're very very old But try to think of it as not being cursed After all, in a hostage situation You'd be released first!”
“I've always been attracted to the characters that I didn't know anything about. If you do anything in life with passion and love, then it's worth trying.”
“One never learns how the witch became wicked, or whether that was the right choice for her~is it ever the right choice? Does the devil ever struggle to be good again, or if so is he not a devil?”
“People everywhere brag and whimper about the woes of their early years, but nothing can compare with the Irish version: the poverty; the shiftless loquacious father; the pious defeated mother moaning by the fire; pompous priests; bullying school masters; the English and the terrible things they did to us for eight hundred long years. Above all -- we were wet.”
“I have become that mother I used to dread.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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