"Pain and fear and hunger are effects of causes which can be foreseen and known: but sorrow is a debt which someone else makes for us."

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Freya Stark

#Pain Quotes #Sorrow Quotes #Debt Quotes

“An office party is not, as is sometimes supposed, the Managing Director's chance to kiss the tea-girl. It is the tea-girl's chance to kiss the Managing Director (however bizarre an ambition this may seem to anyone who has seen the Managing Director face on).”
“Weapons compound man's power to achieve; they amplify the capabilities of both the good man and the bad, and to exactly the same degree, having no will of their own. Thus we must regard them as servants, not masters - and good servants to good men. Without them, man is diminished, and his opportunities to fulfill his destiny are lessened. An unarmed man can only flee from evil, and evil is not overcome by fleeing from it.”
“There is perhaps no better a demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world.”
“I'm not interested into victim photography. Photographing people suffering and putting it on a museum wall is too weird.”
“We don't wear cups. We win them!”
“The obligation d'Ã¢me meant that his only allegiance was to Felix, making them a separate kingdom of two, with Felix as king and Mildmay as ministers, army, and populace all combined in one. A stormy little kingdom, I thought, with periodic flare-ups of civil war and a magnificently unstable government. And I was glad I wasnâ€™t a citizen of it.”
“Well, I think one of the reasons Chicago became so popular as a filmmaker location is because New York had been used so many times that Chicago, I think, was rediscovered maybe in the late '60s, early '70s for a long time as a new location.”
“When I'm good, I'm very good. But when I'm bad I'm better.”

Source : I'm No Angel (motion picture) (1933)

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