"What nobility of feeling! To sacrifice your own pleasure to preserve the comfort of others! It is a thing, I confess, that would never occur to me."

-- Susanna Clarke

#Sacrifice Quotes #Feelings Quotes #Comfort Quotes

“I never saw an ugly thing in my life.”
“I think I'm past the age of getting lost.”
“Growing up in the fifties, having to wear a dog tag, having to take shelter in a bomb shelter. That turned me toward the road, I did not want to live in fear of that, I was gong to work somehow against what that vision was, and what that horror was. It was poetry, art, music.”

Source : Source: logosjournal.com
“This is why I read novels: so I can escape my own unrelenting monologue.”
“There's one form of immortality I like to think about. It's that all those who from the very first have given anything to the world are living in the world to-day.”

Source : Susan Glaspell, Eric S. Rabkin (1912). “Lifted Masks, and Other Works”, p.256, University of Michigan Press
“If only one word is to be used to describe what Baupost does, that word should be: 'Mispricing'. We look for mispricing due to over-reaction.”
“If you are for gun control, then you are not against guns, because the guns will be needed to disarm people. So itâ€™s not that you are anti-gun. Youâ€™ll need the policeâ€™s guns to take away other peopleâ€™s guns. So youâ€™re very Pro-Gun, you just believe that only the Government (which is, of course, so reliable, honest, moral and virtuousâ€¦) should be allowed to have guns. There is no such thing as gun control. There is only centralizing gun ownership in the hands of a small, political elite and their minions.”
“There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.”

Source : Benjamin N. Cardozo (2012). “The Nature of the Judicial Process”, p.54, Courier Corporation

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