"I'm kind of perverse in that I think pessimism is helpful. My pessimism is my own kind of patriotism. My dissent."

-- Tracy Letts

#Thinking Quotes #Helpful Quotes #Kind Quotes

“He had learned the worst lesson that life can teach - that it makes no sense.”

Source : FaceBook post by Philip Roth from Jul 27, 2011
“Dredd was a weird little out-of-the-blue thing for me.”
“Even so, one step from my grave, I believe that cruelty, spite, The powers of darkness will in time Be crushed by the spirit of light.”

Source : Boris Leonidovich Pasternak, Jon Stallworthy, Peter France (1983). “Selected poems”, Lane, Allen
“...but ready or not,life goes on.”

Source : Sidney Sheldon (2005). “The Other Side of Me”
“The United States will do whatever we have to do to protect our forces.”
“Without courage, all other virtues are useless.”
“Can there be any liberty where property is taken away without consent?”
“It has always seemed to me that any man is a better man for being a hunter. This sport confers a certain constant alertness, and develops a certain ruggedness of character....Moreover, it allies us to the pioneer past. In a deep sense, this great land of ours was won for us by hunters.”

Source : Thomas Ligotti (2009). “Teatro Grottesco”, p.53, Random House

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