"The people in Poland had to deal with painful reforms."

-- Lech Walesa

#People Quotes #Reform Quotes #Painful Quotes

“We now have a whole culture based on the assumption that people know nothing and so anything can be said to them.”
“I'm not an easy person to love. There are lots of times when I'm a very good boyfriend, but there are times when I'm useless. I mean, I'm a mess around the house. I talk nonstop. I become obsessed with things.”

Source : "Daniel Radcliffe on Fame, Self-Doubt, and Falling in Love". Interview with Dotson Rader, parade.com. January 5, 2012.
“We must do what we can to reduce, not increase, tensions. We must do what we can to present only the facts as we know them, not as we imagine them to be. We must learn to live with crisis in an age which calls for cool heads and accurate appraisals.”
“Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.”
“It is never until one realizes that one means something to others that one feels there is any point or purpose in one's own existence.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“It seems to me that a 9/11-style attack is impractical.”
“It doesn't promise to solve or erase suffering but to transform it, pledging that by loving one another, even through pain, we will find more life. And it insists that by opening ourselves to strangers, the despised or frightening or unintelligible other, we will see more and more of the holy, since, without exception, all people are one body: God's.”
“Failure is easy to measure. Failure is an event.Harder to measure is insignificance. A nonevent. Insignificance creeps, it dawns, it gives you hope, then delusion, then one day, when youâ€™re not looking, itâ€™s there, at your front door, on your desk, in the mirror, or not, not any of that, itâ€™s the lack of all that. One day, when you are looking, itâ€™s not looking, no one is. You lie in your bed and realize that if you donâ€™t get out of bed and into the world today, it is very likely no one will even notice.”

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