"When a person screams in pain, the actual pain is only half the noise they make. The other half is the terror at being forced to accept that they exist."

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Noah Cicero

#Pain Quotes #Other Half Quotes #Noise Quotes

“Experience of the phenomenal capacity of our birthing body can give us an enduring sense of our own power as women. Birth is the beginning of life; the beginning of mothering, and of fathering. We all deserve a good beginning.”
“When Nikita Khrushchev wrapped himself in the bloody mantle of the Czars he broke Hungary, he broke the little Communist parties over the western world, and he broke the hearts of many honest men who had trusted a little too far, a little too long.”
“He's very clever, but sometimes his brains go to his head.”

Source : In Listener 11 June 1953 "Margot Oxford: a Personal Impression" by Lady Violet Bonham Carter
“It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws.”

Source : Garet Garrett (1944). “The Revolution was”
“I understand all the xkcd jokes.”
“Riches are gotten with pain, kept with care, and lost with grief. The cares of riches lie heavier upon a good man than the inconveniences of an honest poverty.”
“If a man sets out to hate all the miserable creatures he meets, he will not have much energy left for anything else; whereas he can despise them, one and all, with the greatest ease.”
“We actually did a lot of takes on this movie [J. Edgar Hoover ]. I never left the set wanting more. That's for sure. I don't know. This was a very difficult character for me and a lot of the other actors here, and at times we went and did 8 or 9 or 10 takes on a single day.”

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