"The loss of love is a terrible thing; They lie who say that death is worse."

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Source : Countee Cullen (2013). “Countee Cullen: Collected Poems: (American Poets Project #32)”, p.107, Library of America

Countee Cullen

#Lying Quotes #Loss Quotes #Love Is Quotes

“My hands were weak, but I reached them out To feebler ones than mine, and over the shadow of my life Stole the light of a peace divine.”

Source : Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, “Go Work In My Vineyard”
“You won't catch Liberal Democrats describing trade unionists as wreckers.”
“Cost recovery is the polite way of saying, make families pay to educate their children.”
“I'll have mine [The Book-Lovers' Anthology] till the day I die - and die happy in the knowledge that I'm leaving it behind for someone else to love. I shall sprinkle pale pencil marks through it pointing out the best passages to some book-lover yet unborn.”
“I like my computer. But I don't know how to use it as well as the 10-year-old daughter.”
“We were playing a festival in Dublin the other week. There was this other group, like, warming up in the next sort of chalet, and they were terrible. I said, 'Shut them ***** up!' And they were still warming up, so I threw a bottle at them. The bands said, 'That's the Sons of Mumford' or something. 'They're number five in charts!' I just thought they were a load of retarded Irish folk singers.”

Source : "The Fall's Mark E. Smith Attacks Mumford & Sons" by Tom Breihan, pitchfork.com. October 20, 2010.
“The green movement got really hot really fast, but then the economy took a turn and it became clear exactly what's at stake, so I think somehow celebrities got a bad rap when they were trying to do good.”

Source : Source: www.elle.com
“I abandoned the extraterrestria l hypothesis in 1967 when my own field investigations disclosed an astonishing overlap between psychic phenomena and UFOs ... The objects and apparitions do not necessarily originate on another planet and may not even exist as permanent constructions of matter. It is more likely that we see what we want to see and interpret such visions according to our contemporary beliefs.”

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