"More than any other setting - more than battlefields or boardrooms or a spaceship headed for intergalactic travel - I'll put my money on the family to provide an endless source of comedy, tragedy and intrigue."

-- Joyce Maynard

#Tragedy Quotes #Comedy Quotes #Source Quotes

“Books can ignite fires in your mind, because they carry ideas for kindling, and art for matches.”
“The point is, technology has empowered so many musicians, you know?”
“You cannot ensure the gratitude of others for a favour conferred upon them in the way which is most agreeable to yourself.”

Source : Sir Arthur Helps (1892). “Essays and Aphorisms”
“Often a healing takes place in ourselves as we pray for the healing of others.”
“You learn, right, a lot of people's problems - why they get upset, why they get down, why they turn to drink - is because they can't say one word and it's N-O, no.”
“Last night my teacher taught me the lesson of Poverty: Having nothing and wanting nothing.”
“A willingness to engage in the give and take of argument displays a commitment to cognitive egalitarianism - the proposition that all people should be treated as intellectual equals, and that no individual can legitimately claim a privileged immunity from the burden of proof.”

Source : George H. Smith (2000). “Why Atheism?”, Pyr Books
“We all need a bit of self-delusion. It gets us over the difficult spots.”

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