"A friend giveth sympathy in trouble."

-- Torquato Tasso

#Friends Quotes #Trouble Quotes

“When entertainment was begun, during the Depression, it was supposed to take people's minds off reality. People could sing, dance, act or do anything. It was the type of entertainment that was available.”
“I think people who are unhappy are always proud of being so, and therefore do not like to be told that there is nothing grand about their unhappiness. A man who is melancholy because lack of exercise has upset his liver always believes that it is the loss of God, or the menace of Bolshevism, or some such dignified cause that makes him sad. When you tell people that happiness is a simple matter, they get annoyed with you.”
“Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.”
“Some reckon their age by years, Some measure their life by art; But some tell their days by the flow of their tears And their lives by the moans of their hearts.”

Source : Abram Joseph Ryan (1973). “Selected poems of Father Ryan”
“The big majority of Americans, who are comparatively well-off, have developed an ability to have enclaves of people living in the greatest misery almost without noticing them.”
“The idea that human-transforming technology that mingles the dna of natural and synthetic beings and merges man with machines could somehow be used or even inspired by evil supernaturalism to foment destruction within the material world is for some people so exotic as to be inconceivable. Yet nothing should be more fundamentally clear, as students of”
“If you try to pop the unpopped kernels in the microwave, you go back in time.”
“I constantly walk into a room and I don't remember why. But for some reason, I think there's going to be a clue in the fridge.”

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