"We are the ones who work every day with people who are suffering because they don't have health care. We cannot turn our backs on them, so for us, health care reform is a faith-based response to human need."

-- Simone Campbell

#People Quotes #Suffering Quotes #Needs Quotes

“The appeal of science fiction has always been its iconoclasm . . . But in order to be an iconoclast, an author must be more than merely aware of the idol he wishes to destroy. He must be intimate with it and understand it in all its aspects. This means that he must have devoted serious thought to it, and have beliefs of his own which will stand up in the place of the broken idol. In other words, any child can complain, but it takes an adult to clash with accepted beliefs . . . an adult with ideas.”
“Law is a bottomless pit.”

Source : 'The History of John Bull' (1712) ch. 24
“There is only one real happiness in life, and that is the happiness of creating.”
“Well, I think there's not much of a chance for me finding somebody of my age. Gentlemen of my age are dropping down 30 years to find girlfriends.”
“Every minute of his life since then has been marked by her absence, every action has lacked dimension because she is not there to measure against. And when I was young I didn't understand, but now, I know, how absence can be present, like a damaged nerve, like a dark bird.”
“A message I've been telling myself: the cinema is very conservative, and unless you have a story that satisfies you, that is within the unchallenging zone, but you love it, you can't do it as cinema. Otherwise, you better go do it for television, which is more daring now.”

Source : "Ten Questions for Bright Star’s Jane Campion: 'I’ve Never Made a Crap Film'". Interview with Anne Thompson, www.indiewire.com. December 10, 2009.
“I avoid literature whenever possible, because whenever possible I avoid myself...”
“I have never been awake before.”

Source : Stephen LaBerge (2012). “Lucid Dreaming: A Concise Guide to Awakening in Your Dreams and in Your Life”, p.45, Sounds True

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