"They might not need me; but they might. I'll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity."

-- Emily Dickinson

#Happiness Quotes #Smile Quotes #Laughter Quotes

“I have never wanted to be famous, as such - fame is a by-product.”
“When World War II started on September 1, 1939, the German army contained 3.74 million soldiers and 103 divisions.”

Source : John J. Mearsheimer (2002). “The Tragedy of Great Power Politics”, p.371, W. W. Norton & Company
“We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity.”
“Art, if it can be ascribed value, is most valuable when its beauty (and the beauty of the truth it tells) bewilders, confounds, defies evil itself; it does so by making what has been unmade; it subverts the spirit of the age; it mends the heart by whispering mysteries the mind alone canâ€™t fathom; it fulfills its highest calling when into all the clamor of Hell it tells the unbearable, beautiful, truth that Christ has died, Christ is risen, and Christ will come again. None of these songs and stories matter if the beauty theyâ€™re adding to isnâ€™t the kind of beauty that redeems and reclaims.”
“I love those preliminary conversations about who a character is. You try on wigs, shoes and clothes. It's preferable when it's not about looking pretty. It can get a little dull to just be cute. We talk about things like, maybe my character can't afford these Christian Louboutins.”
“God is the last link of the chain, but He is the first also.”

Source : Joseph Barber Lightfoot (Bishop of Durham) (1890). “Ordination addresses and counsels to clergy”
“What happens to people living in a society where everyone in power is lying, stealing, cheating and killing, and in our hearts we all know this, but the consequences of facing all these lies are so monstrous, we keep on hoping that maybe the corporate government administration and media are on the level with us this time. Americans remind me of survivors of domestic abuse. This is always the hope that this is the very, very, very last time one's ribs get re-broken again.”
“To be honest, I think about the clubs when I write. But I should probably start thinking about stadiums, because the songs sound even better there - and bigger.”

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