"[T]he obverse of facile emotion in the 14th century was a general insensitivity to the spectacle of pain and death."

-- Barbara Tuchman

#Pain Quotes #Emotion Quotes #Century Quotes

“If there be one man, more than another, who deserves to succeed in flying through the air, that man is Mr. Laurence Hargrave, of Sydney, New South Wales.”

Source : Octave Chanute (1894). “Progress in Flying Machines”
“When I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder the year I turned 50, it was certainly a shock. But as a journalist, knowing a little bit about a lot of things, I didn't suffer the misconception that depression was all in my head or a mark of poor character. I knew it was a disease, and, like all diseases, was treatable.”

Source : "TAKE ONE STEP: Caring for Depression, with Jane Pauley". www.pbs.org. 2008.
“I had one good racket, a Wilson Javelin. It was my favorite racket, and I made the mistake of putting it next to the heater. It just got so hot that it melted.”
“We all can't be friends. But we can cut each other some slack.”

Source : Lena Williams (2000). “It's the Little Things: The Everyday Interactions that Get Under the Skin of Blacks and Whites”, Houghton Mifflin
“Envy, like fire, soars upward.”
“We'd find more energy in the attics of American homes (through energy conservation measures) than in all the oil buried in Alaska.”
“Does one come to enjoy even the hardships that help make one the person one is? Or is it that the past becomes a legend to be remembered with laughter?”
“Food for thought is no substitute for the real thing.”

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