"When the storm rips you to pieces, you get to decide how to put yourself back together again."

-- Bryant H. McGill

#Rip Quotes #Recovery Quotes #Loss Quotes

“If mankind is naturally good, he is sure going against his nature more and more of the time. It sounds like a bad joke: the paranoids are after us.”
“In taste and imagination, in the graces of style, in the arts of persuasion, in the magnificence of public works, the ancients were at least our equals.”
“A single blow must destroy the enemy... without regard of losses... a gigantic all-destroying blow.”
“Have you ever seen a witness? That's what she called herself. Not a ghost, those don't exist, and not an angel, those do, but a witness." "No." "Ever heard the term?" "Outside of a legal trial, no.”
“I didn't know feminism was actually a thing until I left home and found out the country didn't run the way my mom's house did,”
“People don't live in Austin to work, they work to live there.”
“In existing criminology there are concepts: a criminal man, a criminal profession, a criminal society, a criminal sect, and a criminal tribe; but there is no concept of a criminal state, or a criminal government, or criminal legislation. Consequently, the biggest crimes actually escape being called crimes.”

Source : "A New Model of the Universe" by P.D. Ouspensky, (p. 37-38), 1932.
“A lie may fool someone else, but it tells you the truth: you're weak.”

Source : Tom Wolfe (2002). “The Bonfire of the Vanities: A Novel”, p.283, Macmillan

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