"Thus have the gods spun the thread for wretched mortals: that they live in grief while they themselves are without cares; for two jars stand on the floor of Zeus of the gifts which he gives, one of evils and another of blessings."

-- Homer

#Grief Quotes #Blessing Quotes #Two Quotes

“In my suffrage work, I learned beyond question that the news coming through the great press agencies was colored and distorted; and if this has been done on one subject, it has doubtless been done on others. A good many women, I think, learned a wholesome distrust of press reports during the suffrage struggle.”
“History is not the linear sort of movement toward better and better things.”

Source : Source: www.slate.com
“My own time is passing fast enough without some national game to help it along.”
“I'm very parasitic, from my own experiences. I just go and mine my dirty laundry, you know, and go through it until I find something that's interesting enough to me to write a song about.”
“I am very sorry if I have caused any offence. It was a poor choice of costume.”
“All my writing is about the recognition that there is no single reality. But the beauty of it is that you nevertheless go on, walking towards utopia, which may not exist, on a bridge which might end before you reach the other side.”

Source : Marguerite Young (1999). “Harp Song for a Radical: The Life and Times of Eugene Victor Debs”, Knopf
“It's ironic, isn't it? Our goal was great. Our path was dark.”
“My chair just broke by the way. It's a billion dollar corporation and I can't get a decent chair and somebody to come out here and fix this announce table.”

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