"Women are young at politics, but they are old at suffering; soon they will learn that through politics they can prevent some kinds of suffering."

-- Nancy Astor

#Suffering Quotes #Politics Quotes #Kind Quotes

“We ourselves can die with comfort and even with joy if we know that death is but a passport to blessedness, that this intellect, freed from all material chains, shall rise and shine.”

Source : Matthew Simpson (1885). “Sermons”
“What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.”
“My tattoo is a phoenix. I got the first when I was 16. I hid it for years.”
“I see the beauty of people and the human soul in the pictures I take. And though the circumstances of some of the people I portray may be grim, back-breaking, depraved, the people themselves are always remarkable characters and souls”
“ather than Eisenstein's fast and hard cutting, I like to hold the shot very still and for longer than we're accustomed to. For me personally as a viewer, this technique invariably causes me to have waves of emotions that I think arise from a profound form of mindful awareness and the feelings that go along with that. I am frequently brought to tears by this kind of existential cinematic technique.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
“I lost all feeling a long time ago. Basketball is basketball. It doesn't matter what floor I'm on.”
“. . . I believe one half of the world is born for the convenience of the other half . . .”
“If I showed you scripts from my first few movies, the descriptions of my characters all said 'the ugly girl'.”

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