"We are never ripe till we have been made so by suffering."

-- Henry Ward Beecher

#Suffering Quotes #Made Quotes

“Prenatal testing is a complicated decision for many women, forcing us to confront concerns about a disabled child and risks of miscarriage.”

Source : "'Expecting Better' pregnancy advice" by Emily Oster, www.cnn.com. August 28, 2013.
“Leadership does not mean domination. The world is always well supplied with people who wish to rule and dominate others”
“What is more useful than fire? Yet if any one prepares to burn a house, it is with fire that he arms his daring hands.”
“I discovered that our clan included loads of cousins and uncles and aunts and animals of every shape. I was taught that chaos and competition were family values. And I learned that we all loved the sea. Somehow, the sea was about us-our past, our exuberance, our frailty, our longing.”
“So much of our lives is given over to the consideration of our imperfections that there is no time to improve our imaginary virtues. The truth is we only perfect our vices, and man is a worse creature when he dies than he was when he was born.”
“Whatever will bring in the most money will happen.”
“We're exposing our minors to abuse by the fact that they leave the radio on in the car and let them listen to the news on the way to school. Or the fact that it's shown on the news, the children can see Gaddafi's face and his glorious Technicolor clothes getting shot off on the news or on the newspaper shelves. In the shelves of the shops where all the sex magazines are consciously put at the top, if they're consciously put at the top, that must mean the violence is all put at the bottom consciously.”
“To her friends said the Bright one in chatter, "I have learned something new about matter: My speed was so great, Much increased was my weight, Yet I failed to become any fatter!"”

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