Not Understanding Why Good People Have To Suffer Quotes & Sayings

I have similar feelings, actually. The intimacy of a club: you can see the people, you can almost feel them; you can't beat that. People will say things, and shout out, it's almost like they're up on the bandstand with you. — Benny Green

Yet they spoke now across a glass-topped dining table as if words were just words, as if their histories were equivalent. — Anthony Doerr

Many a man was caused to perish by something that he and many men cherish. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Social Security, for example - I'm 43. I've paid into the system. You know what? That money has been stolen from me. I know that my parents who are on Social Security - they've got to continue to receive it. They're dependent on it. It is their primary source of income. — Joe Miller

She moved to pinch me again but I blocked her hand. I'm no expert on girls, but when one tries to pinch you four times, I'm pretty sure that's flirting. — Ransom Riggs

But we are stronger for what's happened to us. I am stronger, even if I couldn't see it at first. We have been given the gift of understanding that we can come through struggle and pain. We have built new families in place of the ones that cast us out. We have learned that life is one journey, and the purpose is not to reach some treasure at the end of it, but to find the courage to decide which paths to take, who to travel with, and to let things fall into place as they should and will. — Alexandra Bracken

He's got to bring something stronger than that. That's like bringing milk to a bar, it's not strong enough — Charles Barkley

If only you would understand the silent speech and the real pain within the innermost man of they that suffer in silence, you would never keep silent to their suffering. So many people can't speak everything about how they are suffering for the sake of dignity and confidentiality. Though they smile, they smile out of a deep pain within. When you look at someone suffering, just see how he is suffering and in so far as you can, be the joy to the innermost man of the person to the best of your ability. Don't wait for his words, just look and see! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

But William felt in his bones that you couldn't run a city on the basis of what the Watch liked. The Watch would probably like it if everyone spent their time indoors, with their hands on the table where people could see them. — Terry Pratchett

Once in everyone's life there is apt to be a period when he is fully awake, instead of half-asleep. — E.B. White

France eats more conciously, more intelligently, than any other nation. — M.F.K. Fisher

The geographical isolation and lack of television made world happenings and problems seem remote. — Paul D. Boyer

There is a prejuidice imposed on us by our brief window of consciousness: things that move are alive, things that don't are dead. — Robert Charles Wilson

I'm European, I wake up in heels. — Julia Restoin Roitfeld

Anna, who has always been devout, knows well that Despair is a mortal sin, and now she knows that it is a luxury, as well. — Robertson Davies