"When you are in the middle of a story it isn't a story at all, but only a confusion; a dark roaring, a blindness, a wreckage of shattered glass and splintered wood; like a house in a whirlwind, or else a boat crushed by the icebergs or swept over the rapids, and all aboard powerless to stop it. It's only afterwards that it becomes anything like a story at all. When you are telling it, to yourself or to someone else."

-- Margaret Atwood

#Dark Quotes #Glasses Quotes #Confusion Quotes

“Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; - the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine!”
“Wisdom is to the soul what health is to the body”

Source : "Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims" by François de La Rochefoucauld, p. 108, 1665-1678.
“I grew up singing and dancing, so people have been calling me gay since fifth grade. I've heard everything you could possibly hear about it. But I do love gay people, so I'm not going to act like I was insulted or angry about it.”

Source : Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. December 18, 2009.
“I'm full of self-doubt. I doubt everything I do. Everything I do is a failure.”
“Care and Quality are internal and external aspects of the same thing. A person who sees Quality and feels it as he works is a person who cares. A person who cares about what he sees and does is a person whoâ€™s bound to have some characteristic of quality.”
“When I graduated from high school, I had artistic and academic scholarships, and I was trying to figure out what to do. I decided to audition for the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, Juilliard and the National Institute of Dramatic Arts in Sydney, Australia.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“The enmity of such a party towards Socialism does not mean that the members are only prejudiced against it because they do not know it; it means that they are possessed of bourgeois ideas, and wish to determine their policy accordingly.”
“The first law of economics is that when the price goes up, consumption comes down. This is a divine law.”

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