"It was one of those somber evenings when the sighing of the wind resembles the moans of a dying man; a storm was brewing, and between the splashes of rain on the windows there was the silence of death. All nature suffers in such moments; the trees writhe in pain and twist their heads; the birds of the fields cower under the bushes; the streets of cities are deserted."

-- Alfred de Musset

#Pain Quotes #Rain Quotes #Men Quotes

“You can't let one bad moment spoil a bunch of good ones.”
“I am happy for people to talk about my pictures, but I wish devoutly that I was not expected to talk about them myself.”

Source : Interview with Antony Peattie, howard-hodgkin.com. October 19, 1993.
“I have gained and sustained my optimism as a humble student of our living universe, our living Earth, which clearly shows us the way out of our adolescent crisis into a mature global future. The sooner we create our vision of all we desire, set our intention to implement it together, and put our individual capacities into collective action, the greater our chances of success.”
“Usha had said that males were not all that different, just bigger outside to make up for what they lacked within.”

Source : Joan Slonczewski (2000). “A Door Into Ocean”, p.144, Macmillan
“With the socialization of the health care system through institutions such as Medicaid and Medicare and the regulation of the insurance industry (by restricting an insurerâ€™s right of refusal: to exclude any individual risk as uninsurable, and discriminate freely, according to actuarial methods, between different group risks) a monstrous machinery of wealth and income redistribution at the expense of responsible individuals and low-risk groups in favor of irresponsible actors and high-risk groups has been put in motion.”

Source : Hans-Hermann Hoppe (2011). “DemocracyThe God That Failed: The Economics and Politics of Monarchy, Democracy, and Natural Order”, p.196, Transaction Publishers
“Over the very long term, history shows that the chances of any business surviving in a manner agreeable to a company's owners are slim at best.”
“I am serious about not being serious”

Source : "Snaps by Elliott Erwitt - review" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. April 1, 2013.
“Withholding things in a story is no good if you aren't building to something substantial. It becomes foreplay without the main event, and no one wants that.”

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