"For a moment, off balance, was I annoyed? Anger is always fear, I thought, and fear is always fear of loss. Would I lose myself if he made those choices? It took a second to settle down: I'd lose nothing. They'd be his wishes, not mine, and he's free to live as he wants. The loss would come if I dared force him, tried to live for him and me as well. There'd be disaster worse than life on a bar stool."

-- Richard Bach

#Fear Quotes #Loss Quotes #Annoyed Quotes

“No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.”
“You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.”

Source : A.A. Gill (2007). “AA Gill is Away”, p.46, Simon and Schuster
“Come through for others and they will come through for you.”
“I was a multi-millionaire from playing hockey. Then I got divorced, and now I'm a millionaire.”
“We're on the verge of civil war in Northern Ireland. Why? Because if you take away the forums of democracy you don't have anything left.”

Source : "1986: Ian Paisley's Battle Cry Condemned". "On This Day" page on BBC, news.bbc.co.uk.
“My life sucks when Iâ€™m only half-aware of it. If I quit drinking and saw what itâ€™s really like, Iâ€™d probably jump off a bridge.”
“I've been into gear for a long time, but I never saw myself as a producer because I didn't have the patience to finish things in a professional way.”

Source : Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. March 15, 2011.
“When you fly across the country in an airplane the country seems vast; but it isn't vast. It's all connected by roads one can ride a bike down. If you watch the news and there's a tragedy at a house in Kansas, that guy's driveway connects with yours, and you'd be surprised by how few roads it takes to get there.”

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