"That is my principal objection to life, I think: It's too easy, when alive, to make perfectly horrible mistakes."

-- Kurt Vonnegut

#Mistake Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Alive Quotes

“The sweetest noise on earth, a woman's tongue; A string which hath no discord.”

Source : Bryan Waller Procter (1857). “Dramatic Scenes ; with Other Poems Now First Printed”, p.192
“It was an odd friendship, but the oddnesses of friendships are a frequent guarantee of their lasting texture.”

Source : Ford Madox Ford (2012). “Parade's End”, p.5, Vintage
“The best thermometer to the progress of a nation is its treatment of its women.”
“I know the compassion of others is a relief at first. I don't despise it. But it can't quench pain, it slips through your soul as through a sieve. And when our suffering has been dragged from one pity to another, as from one mouth to another, we can no longer respect or love it.”
“Gentlemen, four-fifths of the earth's surface is covered by seas; that is unquestionably too much; the world's surface, the map of oceans and dry land, must be corrected. We shall give the world the workforce of the sea, gentlemen. This will no longer be the style of Captain van Toch; we shall replace the adventure story of pearls by the hymnic paean of labour.”
“You're not even in a restaurant, but... you got served!”
“The Tea Party is protecting its millionaire and oil company friends while gutting critical services that they know protect the livelihood of African-Americans, as well as Latinos and other disadvantaged minorities,”

Source : "Democratic Rep: Tea Party Would Love To See Black People ‘Hanging On A Tree’" By Jennifer Bendery, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 30, 2011.
“If you're going to read this, don't bother.”

Source : "Choke". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, 2001.

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