"After all, no one is ever taken in by the happy ending, but we are often divinely fuddled by the tragic curtain."

-- Lionel Trilling

#Taken Quotes #Happy Endings Quotes #Curtains Quotes

“Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.”

Source : "My Soul Looks Back, 'Less I Forget : A Collection of Quotations". Book by Dorothy Winbush Riley, 1993.
“Chiropractic has helped keep me injury free - that is half the trick to staying in competition,”
“The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion.”
“I never made any reference to John Podesta's email.Does it say #WikiLeaks, #Assange? Julian Assange said, Stone predicted that his emails would be hacked. No, I didn't. I never said anything of the kind.”

Source : Source: www.realclearpolitics.com
“You can't tear up everything just to get the dollar out of it without suffering as result. It is a travesty to burn our woods and thereby burn up the fertilizer nature has provided for us. We must enrich our soil every year instead of merely depleting it. It is fundamental that nature will drive away those who commit sin against it.”
“No one's conception of art is going to be acceptable to everybody.”
“If you really want to know, I’d rather not have been born at all. I find life very tiring. The thing’s done now, of course, and I can’t alter it. But there will always be this regret at the back of my mind, I shall never quite be able to get rid of it, and it will spoil everything. The thing to do now is to grow old quickly, to eat up the years as fast as possible, looking neither right nor left.”
“There's a lot of things to learn, starting with you'd better caution people just as the State Department cautioned people, especially those of Chinese descent, before they decide to engage in academic research in China.”

Source : "Spy cases turn spotlight on shadowy legal system" by Lisa Weaver, www.cnn.com. July 26, 2001.

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