"My heart goes out to victims and survivors of the Hurricane Katrina tragedy and to their families. This disaster will go down in history books as one of the largest natural disasters in U.S. history."

-- Ellen Tauscher

#Book Quotes #Heart Quotes #Tragedy Quotes

“Rags, which are the reproach of poverty, are the beggar's robes, and graceful insignia of his profession, his tenure, his full dress, the suit in which he is expected to show himself in public.”
“There is no limit to beauty, no saturation point in design, no end to the material.....”
“A photographer must always work with the greatest respect for his subject and in terms of his own point of view.”
“The ultimate law of language is, dare we say, that nothing can ever reside in a single term. This is a direct consequence of the fact that linguistic signs are unrelated to what they designate and that, therefore, 'a' cannot designate anything without the the aid of 'b' and vice versa, or, in other words, that both have value only by the difference between them.”
“We live in such a sheltered environment in the United States. I've been fortunate enough to have traveled all over the world, and I've seen things you only read about and see on the news.”
“Humor - I see it as a survival skill.”
“It's hard to get out of the barrel. It's slippery around the edges and people are happy to see you fall back in.”
“I don't know why it is we are in such a hurry to get up when we fall down. You might think we would lie there and rest for a while.”

Source : The Enjoyment of Laughter pt. 3, ch. 4 (1935)

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