"Anxiety and anticipation, I was to learn, are the essential ingredients in suffering from pain, as opposed to feeling pain pure and simple."

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Source : Lucy Grealy (1994). “Autobiography of a Face”, p.27, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Lucy Grealy

#Pain Quotes #Simple Quotes #Anxiety Quotes

“The more we can encourage entrepreneurship, particularly for young people, the more they have hope. That requires some reforms in these [African] governments: rooting out corruption, increased transparency and how government operates, making sure that regulations are not designed just to advantage elites, but are allowing people who have a good idea to get out there and get things done.”
“If the people of Sheffield could only receive a tenth part of what their knives sell for by retail in America, Sheffield might pave its streets with silver.”

Source : William Cobbett, James Paul Cobbett (1853). “Rural Rides: In the Counties of Surrey ... [etc.] in the Years 1821, 1822, 1823, 1825, 1826, 1829, 1830 and 1832, with Economical and Political Observations Relative to Matters Applicable To, and Illustrated By, the State of Those Counties Respectively”, p.557
“I was well beaten myself, and I am better for it.”

Source : "Going well over the top: the link between Monty and Mikey" by Patrick Barkham, www.theguardian.com. May 2, 2005.
“They were conspiring to desert us in the night and steal some of our horses... we engaged a spy.”

Source : Zebulon Montgomery Pike, Thomas Rees (1811). “Exploratory Travels Through the Western Territories of North America: Comprising a Voyage from St. Louis, on the Mississippi, to the Source of that River, and a Journey Through the Interior of Louisiana, and the North-eastern Provinces of New Spain ; Performed in the Years 1805, 1806, 1807, by Order of the Government of the United States”, p.186
“We are plated with piety, not alloyed with it.”
“Raki is bad enough, but it's nectar compared with pulque.”

Source : Fergus Hume (2016). “FERGUS HUME - The Ultimate Mystery Collection: 21 Thriller Novels in One Volume: The Mystery of a Hansom Cab, Red Money, The Bishop’s Secret, The Pagan’s Cup, A Coin of Edward VII, The Secret Passage, The Green Mummy, A Woman's Burden, The Crowned Skull, Hagar of the Pawn-Shop…”, p.611, e-artnow
“The best prayer I ever prayed had enough sin to damn the whole world.”
“Is there any media here? A couple? Excellent. I want to ask you, I don't know what persuasion you are, but would you like to go outside to a 1st Amendment zone? No! So did it make sense to have a 1st Amendment zone in Nevada? No, of course not. That's ridiculous. If we're talking about one of the most egregious things that happened down there, it was the 1st Amendment zone in Nevada.”

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