"I want to be a force for real good. In other words, I know there are bad forces. You know, I know that there are forces out here that bring suffering to others and misery to the world, but I want to be the opposite force. I want to be the force which is truly for good."

-- John Coltrane

#Real Quotes #Opposites Quotes #Suffering Quotes

“Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, But God to man doth speak in solitude.”

Source : John Stuart Blackie (1857). “Lays and legends of ancient Greece: with other poems”, p.260
“Don't mistake kindness for weakness, baby.”

Source : Song: Don't Mistake Kindness for Weakness, Album: Iceman, 1991
“The important message I heard about working out and what I want to share is that you create your own opportunities and your own limitations.”

Source : Jennifer Hudson (2012). “I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down”, p.103, Penguin
“I think the Grammy is like the award, you know.”
“If we may say that the Age of Andrew Jackson took political life out of the hands of aristocrats and turned it over to the masses, then we may say, with equal justification, that the Age of Television has taken politics away from the adult mind altogether.”
“It is a lovely oddity of human nature that a person is more inclined to interrupt two people in conversation than one person alone with a book.”

Source : Amor Towles (2011). “Rules of Civility: A Novel”, p.79, Penguin
“For me, when I'm making a movie I like to stay in character throughout the day.”
“Adorable in her not-very-bright submissiveness, charming in her childlike delight in shiny floors, even forgivable in her spiteful competition for the whitest, brightest wash, Madison Avenue's girl-next door is all the American male could wish for: unless, by some miscarriage, he should fancy human companionship.”

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