"All our troubles come from not being able to be alone."

-- Blaise Pascal

#Able Quotes #Modern Life Quotes #Trouble Quotes

“My childhood was absolutely the worst place I've ever been," "It was terrible.”
“What's real? What's not? That's what I do in my act, test how other people deal with reality.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The modern fairy tale ending is the reverse of the traditional one: A woman does not wait for Prince Charming to bring her happiness; she lives happily ever after only by refusing to wait for him -- or by actually rejecting him. It is those who persist in hoping for a Prince Charming who are setting themselves up for disillusionment and unhappiness.”
“The town was paper, but the memories were not.”
“If I wanted to own some Jack Kirby original art unless it was something that Giacoia or Sinnott had inked I was too close to it. I didn't want to collect his pages inked by me. Of course 40 years later I'd LOVE to have some of that stuff.”
“It's hard to figure out the secrets of the universe when you're trying to figure out where you and your girlfriend are going to sleep next month.”
“Bentham spent much of his life writing constitutions and proposing legal reform in the light of his utilitarianism. The evaluation of particular acts was hardly his concern. The psychology of his day was hedonistic and he worked in that framework and passed it on to Mill, but it is clear as day that Mill was not a hedonist in the sense in which we use that term today, though he used the language of pleasure and pain to express his views.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“A child who had been introduced to misery in Saudi Arabia, a teenager who went to wage jihad against the Soviets in Afghanistan, a deeply devout Muslim who had graduated with honors in medicine, a man who had fed a stranger to wild dogs in Damascus, a zealot who had dosed three foreigners with smallpox and watched them die in agony, gave thanks to Allah for the blessings that had been bestowed upon him.”

Source : Terry Hayes (2014). “I Am Pilgrim: A Thriller”, p.355, Simon and Schuster

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