Suzanne Massie quotes

“When one's own problems are unsolvable and all best efforts frustrated, it is lifesaving to listen to other people's problems.”
-- Suzanne Massie

Source : Robert Massie; Suzanne Massie (1975). “Journey”

#People Quotes #Effort Quotes #Frustrated Quotes

“Evil is near. Sometimes late at night the air grows strongly clammy and cold around me. I feel it brushing me. All that the Devil asks is acquiescence not struggle, not conflict. Acquiescence.”
-- Suzanne Massie

#Struggle Quotes #Night Quotes #Air Quotes

“To be a friend takes time, and time is what nobody has. Therefore, real friends are rare.”
-- Suzanne Massie

Source : Robert Massie; Suzanne Massie (1975). “Journey”

#Friends Quotes #Real Quotes #Real Friends Quotes

“When pain has been constant, it has its own momentum and laws. The vital thing is to break its ascendancy over the mind.”
-- Suzanne Massie

Source : Robert K. Massie, Suzanne Massie (1975). “Journey”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

#Pain Quotes #Law Quotes #Mind Quotes

“Pain heightens every sense. More powerfully than any drug, it intensifies colors, sounds, sight, feelings. Pain is like a glass wall. It is impossible to climb it, but you must, and, somehow, you do. Then there is an explosion of brilliance and the world is more apparent in its complexity and beauty.”
-- Suzanne Massie

Source : Robert Massie; Suzanne Massie (1975). “Journey”

#Wall Quotes #Pain Quotes #Glasses Quotes

“Russians understand the rhythm of despair.”
-- Suzanne Massie

Source : Robert Massie; Suzanne Massie (1975). “Journey”

#Russia Quotes #Despair Quotes #Rhythm Quotes

“All that the Devil asks is acquiescence ...”
-- Suzanne Massie

#Evil Quotes #Devil Quotes #Acquiescence Quotes

“France, like every other Western country except the United States, has long accepted the principle that comprehensive health care is the right of every citizen. No Frenchman need ever fear that catastrophic illness will wipe him out financially. How long, do you suppose, will it take us, in the United States, to catch up?”
-- Suzanne Massie

#Country Quotes #Long Quotes #United States Quotes

“We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory.”

“Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.”

“Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.”

“Money has no color. If you can build a better mousetrap, it won't matter whether you're black or white. People will buy it.”

“It seems that I have spent my entire life trying to make life more rational and that it was all wasted effort.”

Source : In Observer 17 Aug. 1986

“The relationship of the toastmaster to speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer. It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it.”

“Wit is artificial; humor is natural. Wit is accidental; humor is inevitable. Wit is born of conscious effort; humor, of the allotted ironies of fate. Wit can be expressed only in language; humor can be developed sufficiently in situation.”

“Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.”

“It would be a pity if, frustrated by the price of travel, we elected to become a society that never made contact, that never gave SETI a fair chance.”

Source : Bernard M. Oliver, Len Cutler (1997). “The Selected Papers of Bernard M. Oliver”

“When we played against Dan Marino, the best defense was to keep him on the sideline. By keeping him on the sideline, you made him frustrated. You made him anxious. When he came on the field, he felt like he had to score every time. I think that is where Peyton Manning is.”

Source : "5 Questions For Boomer Esiason". Interview with Andrew Marchand, nypost.com. November 24, 2006.