"And my heart beat faster for the mountains of eastern Europe, finally, beat faster for the one hope that somewhere we might find in that primitive countryside the answer to why under God this suffering was allowed to exist - why under God it was allowed to begin, and how under God it might be ended. I had not the courage to end it, I knew, without that answer."

-- Anne Rice

#Heart Quotes #Europe Quotes #Suffering Quotes

“The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.”
“When there's characters out there that don't have humor, I don't find them as believable, because we all have humor, no matter what level it is, we all use it every day, no matter what situation we're in, we'll try and have a bit of a laugh even if it goes wrong.”
“Pop music seems to be the way radio programming has chosen to support female artists. They have chosen not to support a more provocative voice from women, which I find disappointing.”
“(...)normalcy is an illusion. Each person is utterly unique. A standard of normalcy is something that most people of the world simply will never access.”
“It is good that a man's enemies want him dead, for it proves he has lived a life of worth.”

Source : Forrest Carter (1989). “Josey Wales: Two Westerns : Gone to Texas; The Vengeance Trail of Josey Wales”, p.64, UNM Press
“Big Night and The Impostors are both things that I wrote.”
“The tragedy of human history is decreasing happiness in the midst of increasing comforts.”

Source : "Quotations From Gurudev's Writings". Collected by Chinmaya Mission, Chicago, www.mychinmaya.org.
“It is better for a city to be governed by a good man than by good laws.”

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