"The comfort derived from the misery of others is slight."

-- Marcus Tullius Cicero

#Comfort Quotes #Misery Quotes

“This would be a tricky operation, no doubt of that, and a mistake would probably be fatal. So many things he had done over the years would have been fatal, had his luck not been strongly good. He had cheated death dozens of times, but that did not mean he could take it as a given. A man needed only one fatal mistake to end the game.”
“Black ice is the smoothest naturally occuring ice there is, as if nature were condescending to art. ... Black ice is an act of nature as elusive as grace, and far more rare. ... I have never skated on black ice, but perhaps my children will. They'll know it, at least, when it appears: that the earth can stretch smooth and unbroken like grace, and they'll know as they know my voice that they were meant to have their share.”
“I think Jaws is one of those movies that, if it is on, I will watch it until it's finished.”

Source : "Paul F. Tompkins wants to ride a giant bison to work". Interview with AVC, www.avclub.com. February 4, 2016.
“Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children as enchanting as they do.”
“People in the business will stay with you through drugs and alcohol and divorces and insanity and everything else, but you have a failure, pal, and they don't want to know nothing about you!”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I personally got to draw a take on a character that I've had in my mind since I was a teenager. That was pretty sweet!”

Source : Source: www.denofgeek.com
“A cynic had defined aid as simply the system by which poor white people in rich countries gave money to rich black people in poor countries to put into Swiss bank accounts.”
“Growth is widely thought to be the panacea for all the major economic ills of the modern world.”

Source : Herman E. Daly (2007). “Ecological Economics and Sustainable Development”, p.12, Edward Elgar Publishing

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