"Nobody writes if they have had a happy childhood."

-- Joseph Hergesheimer

#Happiness Quotes #Writing Quotes #Childhood Quotes

“It's hard to program a computer to make jokes. The brain needs to do something here; the brain needs to come up with something bizarre to make something funny.”
“So even as we see the horror of death, may we be reminded that in the end, love wins. Mercy triumphs. Life is more powerful than death. And even those who have committed great violence can have the image of God come to life again within them as they hear the whisper of love. May the whisper of love grow louder than the thunder of violence. May we love loudly.”

Source : Shane Claiborne, Chris Haw (2009). “Jesus for President”, p.205, Harper Collins
“The proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and their means of delivery is a threat to both the Nato allies and Russia.”

Source : "The case for western missile defence" by Anders Fogh Rasmussen, www.theguardian.com. March 31, 2010.
“Everybody knows about Pearl Harbor. The thing that really fascinated me is that through this tragedy there was this amazing American heroism.”
“The markets are much more interested in America's long-term trajectory than they are in feeling that there is an acute short-term crisis.”
“A true gangster can smell out a person's strenghts and weaknesses in a matter of minutes, but what they can sense most of all, what their bodies are most attuned to, is the scent of fear.”

Source : Lorenzo Carcaterra (2002). “Gangster”, p.311, Ballantine Books
“Jealousy is an unjust and stifling thing.”
“I define a Sign as anything which is so determined by something else, called its Object, and so determines an effect upon a person, which effect I call its Interpretant, that the latter is thereby mediately determined by the former.”

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