"For the first time she had dimly realized that only the hopeless are starkly sincere and that only the unhappy can either give or take sympathy--even some of the bitter and dangerous voluptuousness of misery."

-- Jean Rhys

#Giving Quotes #Unhappy Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“Civil society must be strengthened to help raise awareness among people living with HIV, and those at risk, of their rights, and to ensure they have access to legal services and redress through the courts.”

Source : "A Legal Remedy?" by Shereen El Feki, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 24, 2012.
“Republican secretaries of state from Kissinger to Baker, Powell to Rice, President Bush, 71 United States Senators all supported President Obama's new START treaty, but not Mitt Romney.”
“Vulgar souls look hastily and superficially at the sea and accuse it of monotony; other more privileged beings could spend a lifetime admiring it and discovering new and changing phenomena that delight them. So it is with love.”
“I find inspiration in everything.”
“Everyone always told me that I had the symptoms of a P.O.W.”

Source : "Darrell Hammond Book: Comedian Reveals Childhood Abuse, Psychiatric Treatment". Interview with Nicki Gostin, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 7, 2011.
“My own reaction from a distance is that Pol Pot's demise as the leader of the Khmer Rouge was inevitable, and that his own paranoia did him in as much as anything else.”
“It must be felt that there is no national security but in the nation's humble, acknowledged dependence upon God and His overruling providence.”

Source : Franklin Pierce (1968). “Franklin Pierce, 1804-1869: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”
“I'm not trying to have Jake Gyllenhaal's baby. I'm not a major fashionista. I'm not going through a lesbian phase. I'm just normal. I'm just really freakin' normal.”

Source : "Banks Swings into Stardom with 'W.,' 'Zack and Miri'" by Anthony Breznican, abcnews.go.com. October 28, 2008.

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