"Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy."

-- William Butler Yeats

#Joy Quotes #Tragedy Quotes #Abiding Quotes

“Nobody knows whether our personalities pass on to another existence or sphere, but if we can evolve an instrument so delicate to be manipulated by our personality as it survives in the next life such an instrument ought to record something...”
“I did what I did not to make money but to help prevent the defeat of a new system which had, at great cost, given ordinary people food and fares which they could afford, a good education and a health service.”

Source : Quoted in the New York Times, 13 September 1999. Treason for health care! Why did the USSR's spies never seem to know anything true about the USSR?
“Most Russians don't treat the government, or those in power, as something close to them. They don't believe that they, as ordinary people, are able to change the development of things. That's why they have a very specific ironic sentiment towards power and the figures that represent it. I wanted to translate this irony into the cinematic language.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
“The great poems of heaven and hell have been written and the great poem of earth remains to be written.”
“Of all the groups that sometimes claim to own your life, family is the hardest to defend your individual sovereignty from.”
“Too many people are going for self and not trying to help their communities.”
“Any deep-rooted prejudice against others, such as homophobia or misogyny, would be grounds for rejecting a candidate for the priesthood, but not their sexual orientation.”
“Souls in heathen darkness lying, where no light has broken through, souls that Jesus bought by dying, whom his soul in travail knew.... Haste, o haste and spread the tidings, let no shore be left untrod, no lost brother's bitter chidings haunt us from the further sod; tell the heathen all the precious truths of God.”

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