"Out of the experience of extraordinary human disaster that lasted too long, must be born a society of which all humanity will be proud.."

-- Nelson Mandela

#Inspiring Quotes #Long Quotes #Humanity Quotes

“In what a delightful communion with God does that man live who habitually seeketh love! With the same mantle thrown over him from the cross - with the same act of amnesty, by which we hope to be saved - injuries the most provoked, and transgressions the most aggravated, are covered in eternal forgetfulness.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 252), 1895.
“I have a lot of people in my life who are truly ridiculous characters, and they're very, very funny people, but they don't really try to be. They're not cracking jokes.”

Source : Source: www.timeout.com
“You always think, "Oh, I'm sure I could have done that better." But generally speaking, I am very proud of this.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Italians have no sense of the dramatic.”
“I have this theory that if we're told we're bad, then that's the only idea we'll ever have. Maybe if we are surrounded in beauty, one day we will become what we see. Anyone can start a conflict. It's harder yet to disregard it. I'd rather see the world from another angle. We are everyday angels...”
“I used to love to draw things that made me laugh or made friends laugh. When I was 13 or 14, I started thinking, This is what I like to do more than anything else.”

Source : "Into the Crazy Closet With Roz Chast". Interview with Dave Gilson, www.motherjones.com. May/June 2014.
“One must be careful with words. Words turn probabilities into facts and by sheer force of definition translate tendencies into habits.”
“I have no desire to be a lead actor or anything. I was offered things and occasionally something comes along, but for the most part I'm pretty much, "You've got to be joking, right?"”

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