"They want you to think that darkness or evil is only something that gets inflicted on you by the outside world, but I know better, and I think the freak does, too. Sometimes the darkness lives inside you, and sometimes it wins."

-- Alexandra Bracken

#Winning Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Evil Quotes

“A podium is something you walk up to, you say what you want to say and when you're finished, you leave.”

Source : "Filmmaker Interview". "POV", www.pbs.org. October 6, 2014.
“Well, I love TV, and I love a good script.”

Source : "Erica Durance Talks Medical Drama SAVING HOPE and Why It Brought Her Back to TV After SMALLVILLE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 5, 2012.
“When I say that all men have the mind which cannot bear to see the suffering of others, my meaning is illustrated this way: when two men suddenly see a child about to fall into a well, they all have a feeling of alarm and distress, not to gain friendship with the child's parents, nor to seek the praise of their neighbors and friends. From such a case, we see that a man without the feeling of commiseration is not a man. The feeling of commiseration is the beginning of humanity.”
“We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine.”
“I like creating beauty out of scary things.”

Source : "Claire Boucher Mines Beauty From the Dark Side" by Laura M. Holson, www.nytimes.com. March 7, 2012.
“I say that almost everywhere there is beauty enough to fill a person's life if one would only be sensitive to it. but Henry says No: that broken beauty is only a torment, that one must have a whole beauty with man living in relation to it to have a rich civilization and art. . . . Is it because I am a woman that I accept what crumbs I may have, accept the hot-dog stands and amusement parks if I must, if the blue is bright beyond them and the sunset flushes the breasts of sea birds?”
“Trusting each other is the beginning of a certain secular faith, a faith that allows us to live in families and communities and nations. Democracy, above all other forms of government, requires this faith ...”
“How tedious is time, when his wings are loaded with expectation!”

Source : Mary Collyer (1749). “Felicia To Charlotte: Being Letters From A Young Lady in the Country, To Her Friend in Town : Containing A Series of the Most Interesting Events, Interspersed with Moral Reflections ...”, p.286

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