"We all have the ability to study the causes of suffering and gradually to free ourselves from them....it is not the magnitude of the task that matters, it's the magnitude of our courage."

-- Matthieu Ricard

#Suffering Quotes #Matter Quotes #Causes Quotes

“There are men put on this earth to make laws designed to break the spirits of men. There are those put here to have their spirits broken by those put here to break them. Then there are those who are here to break the laws that break the men who break the spirits of other men. I am one of those men. - Harry West”

Source : Steve Toltz (2008). “A Fraction of the Whole”, p.132, Spiegel & Grau
“You can't come up against the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and not accept the risk.”
“I don't think our family is falling apart and getting destroyed. I just think it's rearranging itself in the way God meant it to be because it wasn't working how it was.”
“When you see a threat, you just can't hope for the best in this day and age, where terrorists are capable of inflicting damage on the homeland.”
“I wouldn't give a dime for all the possibilities of [motion pictures with sound]. The public will never accept it.”
“Get up now and go and find Robert Kilroy-Silk. Smile in a warm, friendly sort of way, then punch him on the nose. Now go and find Robert on television, despite my best endeavours, this is still relatively easy to do. Wait for a close-up, same smile, and punch him on the nose. If you followed the instructions carefully, you will have noticed a distinct difference. On the one hand, you were suffused with a sense of public-spirited righteousness; on the other, you're probably dribbling blood. That's the difference between reality in life and reality on television.”

Source : "'My discoveries weren't any more extensive or alarming than most people's. I just chose to look'". Interview with Antonia Crane, logger.believermag.com. November 5, 2013.
“The way I've been brought up to is take critiques and turn them into positives in my game.”
“For some it is harder to write a novel than to row a bathtub across the North Atlantic.”

Source : James N. Frey (2010). “How to Write a Damn Good Novel: A Step-by-Step No Nonsense Guide to Dramatic Storytelling”, p.151, Macmillan

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