quotes about Bad Years

“Then from the neighboring thicket the mocking-bird, wildest of singers, Swinging aloft on a willow spray that hung o'er the water, Shook from his little throat such floods of delirious music, That the whole air and the woods and the waves seemed silent to listen.”

“As the Cameroonian philosopher Achille Mbembe has presciently pointed out, neoliberal corporate globalism threatens to exploit that advantage like never before, and it seems set to turn vast swathes of humanity into "the Negros of a new racism."”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

“It's your birthday today, so what would you say, if we turned that frown upside down”

“If we are able to meet these two requirements - regularity in meditation and leading a good life in society, day-to-day a good life - then nothing would be unattainable by us.”

“It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise.”

Source : Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “The Idiot (English French edition illustrated): L’Idiot (Anglais Français édition illustré)”, p.1139, Clap Publishing, LLC.

“It cannot be too often repeated that it is not helps, but obstacles, not facilities, but difficulties that make men.”

“It's very difficult to resort to hating [Pablo Escobar] when all he gave you his entire life was love and all the best he ever had.”

Source : Source: harvardpolitics.com

“What we need is more women writers, writing for older women. There are some actresses who have production companies and create their own material, and I truly admire that”

“I actually share her view and understand her frustration when any government attempts to ban secular symbols like Santa Claus or Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer or Christmas lights.”

“These are times of action. Men think and then act; sometimes, indeed, they simply act.”