"It is difficult to conceive any situation more painful than to watch the lingering agony of an exhausted country, to tend it during the alternate fits of stupefaction and raving which precede its dissolution, and to see the symptoms of vitality disappear one by one, till nothing is left but coldness, darkness, and corruption."

-- Zachary Macaulay

#Country Quotes #Agony Quotes #Darkness Quotes

“The people I know who suffer from mental illness, sometimes they do connect you to what it is to be really human. There's a vulnerability there, there's something very potent.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“By the time we left college, I had become my own image: a dandelion in the flower bed of society. Kinda cute, but still a weed.”

Source : Anne Fortier (2012). “Juliet (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.41, Ballantine Books
“It's imprecise and insufficient, defining the homosexual as a person whose gender expression is at odds with his or her sex.”
“I'm digging Batman. I'm digging that balance, that duality. He's always on the edge and trying to balance himself within the rules of what's lawful and justice, and being Bruce Wayne and being Batman.”
“The challenge of today's generation of architects is the environment.”

Source : Source: www.chicagotribune.com
“Chelsea are up there with best teams in the world,and let's hope United can join us in quarter-finals.”
“My ambition is to become one of those actresses that is like a chameleon that you don't recognize.”
“Slowly but surely, the U.S. military is being converted into a global oil-protection service.”

Source : Michael Klare (2007). “Blood and Oil: The Dangers and Consequences of America's Growing Dependency on Imported Petroleum”, p.7, Macmillan

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