"The symptoms of compassion and benevolence, in some people, are like those minute guns which warn you that you are in deadly peril."

-- Sophie Swetchine

#Compassion Quotes #Gun Quotes #People Quotes

“When you have an ego, you are limited to your own strengths and weaknesses. But if you are totally surrendered to God, nothing is impossible for you.”
“I've been screaming at the top of my lungs at my family, 'Work out! Work out! Old age is coming!'”
“I never paid you a compliment, Rachel, in my life. Successful love may sometimes use the language of flattery, I admit. But hopeless love, dearest, always speaks the truth.”

Source : Wilkie Collins (2015). “The Moonstone (Mystery Thriller Classic): Detective story from the prolific English writer, best known for The Woman in White, No Name, Armadale, The Law and The Lady, The Dead Secret, Man and Wife, Poor Miss Finch, The Black Robe and more”, p.203, e-artnow
“This hype word bothers me though It always sounds like an accusation, what does it mean, advertising, column inches in the press? Bands themselves are never really responsible for all of that. That is something that happens to you when you sell millions of records.”
“One can be ugly in looks, but lovely in disposition.”
“I try to be eclectic in my choice of films. If I've done anything that's intentional in my career, it's to try to do as many different types of characters and as many different types of genres of movies that I can.”
“Newtonian physics runs into problems at the subatomic level. Down there--in the land of hadrons, quarks, and SchrÃ¶dinger's cat--things gent freaky. The cool rationality of Isaac Newton gives way to the bizarre unpredictability of Lewis Carroll.”
“Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.”

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