"I was raised in a family where none of us ever raised a voice, so there was no room to express feelings of rage or even unabashed joy - a little bashed joy, here or there, or being mildly disgruntled."

-- Anne Lamott

#Voice Quotes #Joy Quotes #Feelings Quotes

“Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.”

Source : Barbara Johnson (2008). “When Your Child Breaks Your Heart: Help for Hurting Moms”, p.134, Revell
“What is most important for Europe is economic growth and jobs, security at home and safety in the world.”
“I'm no actor and I never have been. What people see on the screen is me.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“There is no objection to the proposal: in order to learn to be a poet, I shall try to write a sonnet. But the thing you must try to write, when you do so, is a real sonnet, and not a practice sonnet.”

Source : "Just keep practising for real" by James Fenton, www.theguardian.com. June 8, 2002.
“The teacher is the only one worth listening to.”
“Confronting the US made him [Hugo Chavez] a target for demonization. Partisan and/or lazy journalism exaggerated his faults, ignored his virtues, and downplayed the influence of strident and on occasion anti-democratic opponents. The flip side is his anti-imperialist posturing so dazzled his cheerleaders they overlooked his flaws, flaws which worsened over time, and they created their own caricature.”
“My mind is filled with cataclysm and apocalypse. I wish for earthquakes, eruptions, flood.”

Source : Madeline Miller (2011). “The Song of Achilles”, p.278, A&C Black
“If a man has beheld evil, he may know that it was shown to him in order that he learn his own guilt and repent; for what is shown to him is also within him.”

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