"No blessed leisure for love or hope, But only time for grief."

-- Thomas Hood

#Grief Quotes #Blessed Quotes #Leisure Quotes

“Just watching people who come from a stand-up background is different from watching people who come from an improv or sketch background.”
“Becoming a solo singer is like going from an eau de toilette to a perfume. It's much more intense.”
“To suggest that the merciful, longsuffering, gracious and loving God of the Bible would invent a dreadful doctrine like Calvinism, which would have us believe it is an act of 'grace' to select only certain people for heaven and, by exclusion, others for hell, comes perilously close to blasphemy.”
“War! war! war! Heaven aid the right! God move the hero's arm in the fearful fight! God send the women sleep in the long, long night, When the breasts on whose strength they leaned shall heave no more.”

Source : Edmund Clarence Stedman (1873). “The Poetical Works of Edmund Clarence Stedman”, p.111
“All "if" statements about the past are as dubious as prophecies of the future are. It seems fairly plausible that if Alexander or Ghengis Khan had never been born, some other individual would have filled his place and executed the design of the Hellenic or Mongolic expansion; but the Alexanders of philosophy and religion, of science and art, seem less expendable; their impact seems less determined by economic challenges and social pressures; and they seem to have a much wider range of possibilities to influence the direction, shape and texture of civilizations.”
“Thatcherism has become bigger than she ever was.”
“The more we remember, the better we are at processing the world. And the better we are at processing the world, the more we can remember about it.”

Source : Joshua Foer (2011). “Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything”, p.148, Penguin
“This tendency to make laws that are convenient or advantageous rather than right has mushroomed.”

Source : John Howard Griffin (2006). “Black Like Me: The Definitive Griffin Estate Edition”, p.71, Wings Press

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