"It is perhaps common in the world for individuals and nations to suffer for their noble qualities more than for their ignoble ones. For nobility is an occasion for pride, the most treacherous of sentiments."

-- Daniel Patrick Moynihan

#Pride Quotes #Suffering Quotes #Quality Quotes

“I'm interested in being part of a majority in the Senate.”
“Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.”
“At some glad moment was it nature's choice to dower a scrap of sunset with a voice?”

Source : Edgar Fawcett (1878). “Fantasy and Passion”
“For it is a serious thing to have been watched. We all radiate something curiously intimate when we believe ourselves to be alone.”
“If you don't expect much you can't be disappointed.”
“I hate last-minute shopping, it's always unsuccessful.”
“Mom said, "His spirit is there," and that made me really angry. I told her, "Dad didn't have a spirit! He had cells!" "His memory is there." "His memory is here," I said, pointing at my head. "Dad had a spirit," she said, like she was rewinding a bit in our conversation. I told her, "He had cells, and now they're on rooftops, and in the river, and in the lungs of millions of people around New York, who breathe him every time they speak!”
“Fame isolates people from reality. That happens to many artists, and I don't want it to happen to me.”

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