"We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged"

-- Heinrich Heine

#Life Quotes #Death Quotes #Forgiveness Quotes

“The diligent reading of Sacred Scripture accompanied by prayer brings about that intimate dialogue in which the person reading hears God who is speaking, and in praying, responds to him with trusting openness of heart. If it is effectively promoted, this practice will bring to the Church-I am convinced of it-a new spiritual springtime.”
“Life owes you nothing. You owe yourself everything.”

Source : Corey Taylor (2012). “Seven Deadly Sins: Settling the Argument Between Born Bad and Damaged Good”, p.97, Da Capo Press
“It's difficult to protect something if it doesn't have a price.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people worse than they are.”

Source : "Die Fackel", no. 277/78 (March 31, 1909), translated in "Anti-Freud: Karl Kraus's Criticism of Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry" by Thomas Szasz, (Ch. 8), 1970.
“Eclecticism is the degree zero of contemporary general culture: one listens to reggae, watches a western, eats McDonald's food for lunch and local cuisine for dinner, wears Paris perfume in Tokyo and retro clothes in Hong Kong; knowledge is a matter for TV games. It is easy to find a public for eclectic works.”

Source : "An A-Z of cultural terms". www.theguardian.com. October 17, 2000.
“Mostly I'm just not American. I spent four years of my childhood here, but I think if you're Canadian you have a very different perspective. You don't think you're at the center of things.”

Source : "An Interview with Mary Harron". The Believer Magazine, Issue One Hundred Six, believermag.com. March 1, 2014.
“Whereas liberals are thought to erupt self-righteously whenever they feel like it, conservatives believe that they themselves are never permitted to say what they really think.”
“A writer is a reader who is moved to emulation.”

Source : William Maxwell, Christopher Carduff (2008). “Early novels and stories”

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