"In my incoherence I was grateful that for a few moments I had known what it was to suffer-or so I thought. But nothing is less like a thing that that which is closest to it. A man who had been near to death thinks how he knows death. When the day finally comes for him to meet it, he does not recognise it. 'This is not it,' he says, as he dies."

-- Raymond Radiguet

#Grateful Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Men Quotes

“There are wars, there is pain, there is suffering, and there is even death. But none of these things prepare you for Monday morning.”
“Journalists prize independence - not teamwork.”

Source : Ken Auletta, Terence Smith, John W. Gallivan Program in Journalism, Ethics & Democracy, University of Notre Dame (2005). “Whom do journalists work for?”
“Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.”
“Civilised adults do not take apple juice with dinner.”
“I like to have my hand on every single plate that goes out. It's really a good feeling when someone compliments your meal, and you had everything to do with making it. It's very rewarding.”
“By investigating God's majestic and awesome creation, science can actually be a means of worship.”

Source : "Collins: Why this scientist believes in God". edition.cnn.com. April 6, 2007.
“How anyone, in view of the protracted sufferings of the race, can invest the laws of the universe with a tender loving fatherly intelligence, watching, guiding and protecting humanity, is to me amazing.”
“Acting is not a genteel profession. Actors used to be buried at a crossroads with a stake through the heart. Those people's performances so troubled the onlookers that they feared their ghosts. An awesome compliment. Those players moved the audience not such that they were admitted to a school, or received a complimentary review, but such that the audience feared for their soul. Now that seems to me something to aim for.”

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