"Personal size and mental sorrow have certainly no necessary proportions. A large bulky figure has a good a right to be in deep affliction, as the most graceful set of limbs in the world. But, fair or not fair, there are unbecoming conjunctions, which reason will pa tronize in vain,--which taste cannot tolerate,--which ridicule will seize."

-- Jane Austen

#Grief Quotes #Sorrow Quotes #World Quotes

“People just don't know that you can have colon cancer and be completely asymptomatic and healthy.”

Source : Source: www.nbcnews.com
“The art of good decision making is looking forward to and celebrating the tradeoffs, not pretending they don't exist.”
“One of the baffling things about life is that the purposes of institutions may be ideal, while their administration, dependent upon the faults and weaknesses of human beings, may be bad.”
“I was always told that I was too small, too skinny, too slow, not tough enough, and I never ever believed what people told me.”
“To be a teacher is my greatest work of art.”

Source : Monika Angerbauer-Rau, Joseph Beuys (1998). “Beuys Kompass: ein Lexikon zu den Gesprächen von Joseph Beuys”, Dumont
“Oh, you're one of the sodomites. You should only get AIDS and die, you pig. How's that? Why don't you see if you can sue me, you pig. You got nothing better than to put me down, you piece of garbage. You have got nothing to do today, You have got nothing to do today, go eat a sausage and choke on it.”

Source : Interview with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. July 24, 2009.
“The good news for Nigeria is that they're two-nil down very early in the game.”
“The more complicated and powerful the job, the more rudimentary the preparation for it.”

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