"The hopeless grief of those poor colored people affected me more than almost anything else."

-- Gideon Welles

#Grief Quotes #People Quotes #Hopeless Quotes

“What you believe someone else can or can't do hasn't got beans with the doing. Or lack of doing. Just go back through your history books and you'll discover that just about everything you take for granted today in your daily lives was absolutely impossible not so many years ago.”
“If I knew then what I know now, I would still be dreaming BIG today.”

Source : FaceBook post by Tim Storey from Feb 18, 2015
“They're getting crazier every day, the whole world's going crazy. And you got to take your mind out to keep your smile in place.”

Source : Wilhelmina Baird (1993). “Crashcourse”
“Thus fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself when apparent to the eyes ; and we find the burden of anxiety greater, by much, than the evil which we are anxious about : ...”

Source : Daniel Defoe (1822). “The life and adventures of Robinson Crusoe: who was shipwrecked on an uninhabited island, near the mouth of the great river Oroonoque, where he resided twenty-eight years. With an account of his travels through various parts of the world”, p.103
“Probably no strychnine has sent as many husbands into their graves as mealtime scolding has, and nothing has driven more men into the arms of other women as the sound of a shrill whine at table.”
“Anyone can love a virtue, but a good human being is he or she who loves even vicious people. Everyone Loves the melodious voice of cuckoo, but who cares for Kaw- Kaw of crow.”
“Purchasing power parities are not a reasonable method for comparing households across countries or currencies. The reason for this is simply that PPPs are sensitive to the prices of all the commodities, goods and services, that households are consuming worldwide, with each commodity weighted in the calculations according to its share in international household consumption expenditure.”

Source : Source: www.truth-out.org
“A fool often fails because he thinks what is difficult is easy.”

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