"We weep and laugh, as we see others do."

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Source : Wentworth Dillon (4th earl of Roscommon.) (1749). “The poetical works of ... Wentworth Dillon, earl of Roscommon”, p.157

Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

#Laughing Quotes #Weeping Quotes

“The truth is I couldnâ€™t care less about needing a supposed 'thigh gap;. Itâ€™s just another tool of manipulation that other people are trying to use to keep me from loving my body. Why would I want to starve and weaken my natural body size? Iâ€™m not saying women who have it naturally are unattractive. But I would have to change my entire frame just to achieve something that seems so trivial.”
“In the place where you feel completely uncomfortable, is the place where you find your genius.”
“Actually, my first group was a folkloric group, an Argentine folkloric group when I was 10. By the time I was 11 or 12 I started writing songs in English. And then after a while of writing these songs in English it came to me that there was no reason for me to sing in English because I lived in Argentina and also there was something important [about Spanish], so I started writing in Spanish.”
“Will the theater disappear? No. Is it healthy? Also no.”
“German Nazism could not have succeeded in establishing itself except as a result of the theoretical contributions of Fichte, Goethe and Nietzsche, coupled with the ingenious and mighty leadership of Hitler and his comrades.”

Source : "Minhaj al-inqilab al-Islami" (The method of Islamic Revolution) by Abul A'la Maududi, (p. 19), 1977.
“Words are alive--when I've found a story that I love, I read it again and again, like playing a favorite song over and over. Reading isn't passive--I enter the story with the characters, breathe their air, feel their frustrations, scream at them to stop when they're about to do something stupid, cry with them, laugh with them. Reading for me, is spending time with a friend. A book is a friend. You can never have too many.”
“Let other people finish their sentences when theyâ€™re talking.”
“At times, I come across as crude or crass, that irritates you when I come across like a Neanderthal or a babbling idiot at times. But I like to be that person. I like to show you all that person because that's who you come to see.”

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