"It is a comfort to the miserable to have comrades in misfortune, but it is a poor comfort after all."

-- Christopher Marlowe

#Comfort Quotes #Companionship Quotes #Miserable Quotes

“Many people are coming to this country for economic reasons. They're coming here to work. If you can make 50 cents in the heart of Mexico, for example, or make $5 here in America, $5.15, you're going to come here if you're worth your salt, if you want to put food on the table for your families. And that's what's happening.”
“Fifty percent of something is better than than one hundred percent of nothing.”
“If we don't get gun-control laws in this country, we are full of beans. To have the National Rifle Association rule the United States is pathetic. And I agree with Mayor Michael Bloomberg: It's time to put up or shut up about gun control for both parties.”

Source : "Harvey Weinstein Calls for Filmmaker Summit on Violence in Movies After Colorado Shooting" by Pamela McClintock, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 26, 2012.
“Everything that occurs in your life is an opportunity for awakening. There are no exceptions!”
“I've been creating work by silk-screening images of arms and legs and heads and objects on paper - like drawings of vegetables, guns, hats, whatever - and then also printing sheets of patterns, colorful polka dots and line drawing patterns.”
“I was not influenced by composers as much as by natural objects and physical phenomena.”

Source : "Sound Structure in Music". Book by Robert Erickson, 1975.
“The art consensus is not criteria, it is convenience.”
“Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate this evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer.”

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