"Everything that gives pleasure has its reason. To scorn the mobs of those who go astray is not the means to bring them around."

-- Charles Baudelaire

#Mean Quotes #Giving Quotes #Reason Quotes

“Continuity does not rule out fresh approaches to fresh situations.”
“I often think that the ideal of our perfection that we set up, and often go through torture to achieve, may not be God's idea of how He wants us to be at all. That may be something quite different that we never would have thought of, and what seems like a failure to us may really be something bringing us closer to His will for us.”

Source : Caryll Houselander (2005). “Caryll Houselander: Essential Writings”
“It doesn't take a brain surgeon to figure out that if you stop or curtail stop-and-frisk, or if cops are reluctant to do it, violent crimes are going to go up.”

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“What cannot be said will be wept.”
“There must be vistas flying out beyond, that promise more than present conditions yield.”
“There is no future without a past, because what is to be cannot be imagined except as a form of repetition.”

Source : Siri Hustvedt (2011). “The Summer Without Men: A Novel”, p.94, Macmillan
“Popular culture has become engorged, broadening and thickening until it's the only culture anyone notices.”
“The old happiness is unreturning. Boy's griefs are not so grievous as youth's yearning. Boys have no sadness sadder than our hope.”

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