"Nothing pains some people more than having to think"

-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

#Pain Quotes #Emotional Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Execution as punishment is barbaric and unnecessary.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“The United States stands with our friends in Britain as they recover from today's shock of terrorism. These barbaric acts strengthen our resolve and remind us all of the danger of complacency during our continued war on terror.”
“We all have music in us - your heartbeat is your drum, your voice is your sound - and music is supposed to put you in tune with nature.”
“I remember my wife in white.' It just made people weep to hear it...Everybody just thought it was the saddest sentence that was ever written. And it didn't matter if I never wrote another word. This one sentence had put an end to the need for any future sentences. I had said it all.”
“You can eat an elephant if you do it one bite at a time.”
“Life is a game with many rules but no referee. One learns how to play it more by watching it than by consulting any book, including the holy book. Small wonder, then, that so many play dirty, that so few win, that so many lose.”

Source : Joseph Brodsky (2011). “On Grief And Reason: Essays”, p.145, Penguin UK
“I used to live in a little city by the sea, and the feeling of isolation - it was not like living in Paris or London. It was a bit apart from the main city, and [it gave me] this feeling of isolation and also being close to nature, with nature as a surrounding and also a frontier, from the society of the world.”
“If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.”

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