"...we must remain hopeful that for our children and our children's children, that we are not a warring nation, but we will embrace and practice true compassion and honor the ideals of peace and freedom, and we will not give up."

-- Jessica Lange

#Peace Quotes #Children Quotes #Giving Up Quotes

“Humor is the good natured side of a truth.”
“Nobody really wants to hear about anybody else's injuries. Or how your back feels. Whose back doesn't hurt?”
“Millions of our fellow human beings continue to live as contemporary slaves, victims of abominable practices like human trafficking, forced labour and sexual exploitation. Countless children are forced to become soldiers, work in sweat shops or are sold by desperate families. Women are brutalized and traded like commodities. Entire households and villages labour under debt bondage.”
“Each way means loneliness -- and communion.”
“I am not here to pass civilities or compliments with you, but on other business. I have stood your meanness as long as I intend to. You have played the part of a damned scoundrel, and are a coward, and if you were any part of a man I would slap your jaws and force you to resent it. You may as well not issue any more orders to me, for I will not obey them... and as I say to you that if you ever again try to interfere with me or cross my path it will be at the peril of your life.”
“And the worst possible thing we could know â€” worse than knowing of our descent from a mass of microorganisms â€” is that we are nobodies not somebodies, puppets not people.”
“Some jobs are worse than actual wives. Ad agency vs. Matrimony, for instance: Even the most capricious and demanding spouse is not going to divorce you for refusing to spend forty hours a week making up lies about toilet paper.”
“If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.”

Source : Thomas Mann (2010). “Death in Venice: And Seven Other Stories”, p.95, Vintage

You may also like:

Angela Bassett
Actress
Brie Larson
Actress
Evan Peters
Actor
Frances Conroy
Actress
Kathy Bates
Actress
Lily Rabe
Actress
Ryan Murphy
Screenwriter
Sarah Paulson
Film actress
Taissa Farmiga
Actress