"Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive. The next thing you know something fine will happen to her, something marvelous, and then she will turn around and smile."

-- Chris Cleave

#Mean Quotes #Stories Quotes #Alive Quotes

“If Iâ€™d chosen never to the foot inside the great fairytale, Iâ€™d never have known what Iâ€™ve lost. Do you see what Iâ€™m getting at? Sometimes itâ€™s worse for us human beings to lose something dear to us than never to have had it at all.”
“Some patients are still having insomnia, but it's seems worse to them than actually it is. So, if they say they're sleep deprived, they haven't slept at all in three days; if we actually take them into a lab, most of the time we actually do see they're sleeping on and off here and there.”
“I pray you, magnificent Sir, do not trouble yourself to return to us, but await our coming to you.”
“Stress isn't only a joy stealer. The way we respond to it can be sin.”
“Stan Lee always wanted to do another syndicated strip while we were doing Spider-Man. I was working two jobs, and he wanted to make time to do another strip. He wanted to do a humor strip. I said, 'Stan, I barely make it through the week now. How the hell am I going to do another strip?' He said, 'Oh, I'm sorry, I always forget it takes you longer to do a page than it takes me to do twenty pages.'”
“I'm hoping one day to open my own shelter. I would be the person with the three-legged dog. I just love animals more than people; I really do.”
“Unfortunatelymost westerners form their opinions of Africa based on the reporting and news in their own countries”
“If people want consultative government, the price is increased complexity and delay in arriving at decisions. If they want speed of government, then they must accept a greater degree of authoritarianism. I suspect that the real answer is that most people prefer the latter so long, that is, as government's decisions conform with their own views.”

Source : Official Report of Proceedings of the Hong Kong Legislative Council (p. 215), March 27, 1968.

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