"Everybody's tragedy is somebody's nuisance."

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Winifred Holtby

#Tragedy Quotes #Nuisance Quotes

“No matter how horrid a person may appear on the surface, if you dig deeper, you will find some nice, unexpected little quality.”
“Our fruitless labours mourn, And only rich in barren fame return.”
“We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God... It is a strange fact that Christians and even ministers frequently consider their work so important and urgent that they will allow nothing to disturb them. They think they are doing God a service in this but actually they are disdaining God's "crooked but straight path". It is part of the discipline of humility that we must not spare our hand where it can perform service and that we do not assume that our schedule is our own to manage, but allow it to be arranged by God.”

Source : Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.76, SCM Press
“I do have fun writing, and a long time ago, I told myself, 'You got to have fun at this, or it'll drive you nuts.'”

Source : "The Most Important Writing Tip the Late Elmore Leonard Ever Gave" by Asawin Suebsaeng, www.motherjones.com. August 20, 2013.
“I happened to write a book about the stuff I've been involved in over the years. It just so happened that my profession is that I was a cop in the New York City Police Department. I guess people thought it was pretty interesting to have these two things meshed together. My life is pretty boring, I don't know why they're doing this. It's fun.”
“I really think that people's right to happiness shouldn't be dictated by some policymaker in Washington, D.C. I've come to know a lot of people that - sexual orientation is such where they're in love with people from the same sex, and I just don't think it's our role in the government to say, 'No you can't be married.”

Source : "Jon Tester Explains Gay Marriage Evolution" by Sam Stein, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 28, 2013.
“There are three kinds of men: those who are preceded by their shadow, those who are pursued by it, and those who have never seen the sun.”
“Many Europeans think that all Moroccans speak French, but no. I had to make an effort to learn it when I studied French literature at the university in Rabat.”

Source : "No one is capable of freeing oneself from society". Interview with Rebecka Bülow, logger.believermag.com. October 7, 2014.

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