No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it. – E. M. Cioran
There are in every generation those who shrink from the ultimate sacrifice, but there are in every generation those who make it with joy and laughter and these are the salt of the generations. – Patrick Henry Pearse
A ring means a commitment. But more than that, it means that youve talked about your shared future and have decided together on a shared vision of it. – Patti Stanger
Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation. – Tennessee Williams, “The Rose Tattoo”
Musicians are probably the most uncomfortable people in themselves in the world. Happiness, I think, only exists when youre a child and once you go past 11, unfortunately its gone. – Andrea Corr