"Preserve me from such cordiality! It is like handling briar-roses and may-blossoms - bright enough to the eye, and outwardly soft to the touch, but you know there are thorns beneath, and every now and then you feel them too; and perhaps resent the injury by crushing them in till you have destroyed their power, though somewhat to the detriment of your own fingers."

-- Anne Bronte

#Crush Quotes #Eye Quotes #Rose Quotes

“Most people in Seoul don't care about the North's belligerent statements: The farther one is from the Korean Peninsula, the more one will find people worried about the recent developments here. Scary impressions are important to North Korea because for the last two decades its policy has been, above all, a brilliant exercise in diplomatic blackmail. And blackmail usually works better when the practitioners are seen as irrational and unpredictable.”
“If you want to grow up to be a big, strong pea, you have to eat your candy," Papa Pea would say.”
“Stay true to yourself. People respond to authenticity.”

Source : "Barbra Streisand: The Legend" by Sheila Weller, www.glamour.com. October 30, 2013.
“Like Sylvia Plath, Natalie Jeanne Champagne invites you so close to the pain and agony of her life of mental illness and addiction, which leaves you gasping from shock and laughing moments later: this is both the beauty and unique nature of her storytelling. With brilliance and courage, the author's brave and candid chronicle travels where no other memoir about mental illness and addiction has gone before. The Third Sunrise is an incredible triumph and Natalie Jeanne Champagne is without a doubt the most important new voice in this genre.”
“When I was younger I was obsessed with 'Star 80,' and it's just a great movie - I think I saw it three times in the theater.”
“I like John Kerry. I think he's intellectually curious and very thoughtful. I think he's deeply committed on issues like the environment. I think he's an internationalist, which I am.”
“Because our homeland and very survival are once more at stake, the American people can't afford to treat this new war against terrorism like they did Vietnam.”
“Economics is like a church, and it fulfills the same function the church had fulfilled for centuries: the justification of the status quo.”

Source : Source: www.truth-out.org

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