Consolation After Death Quotes

#1. We're going to have to come together and take meaningful action to prevent more tragedies like this, regardless of the politics.

Barack Obama

#2. People appreciate when you make an effort to speak their language.

Sam Altman

#3. For my part I have no joy in tears after dinnertime. There will always be a new dawn tomorrow. Yet I can have no objection to tears for any mortal who dies and goes to his destiny. And this is the only consolation we wretched mortals can give, to cut our hair and let the tears roll down our faces.

Homer

#4. I'm interested in why people talk like they do. Like Boston Irish. It's so laid back. Why is that?

Sean Bean

#5. Flesh sells. People don't want to see pictures of churches. They want to see naked bodies.

Helen Mirren

#6. To succeed [,] consider what is as though it were past, deem yourself inevitable and take credit for it. If you no longer believe, enlarge the temple.

W.S. Merwin

#7. In other words, no matter how well documented or noble our cause is, it won't be helped by our feeling aggression toward the oppressors or those who are promoting the danger. Nothing will ever change through aggression.

Pema Chodron

#8. Publishing would be so wonderful without those wretched authors.

Jonathan Galassi

#9. Every time the good giants try to cut back on salt, sugar, fat calories, inevitably Wall Street raises its hand and is looking at the sales figures and the revenue and saying, 'Thou shalt not result in any loss of profit.' There's huge continuing pressure on the food companies.

Michael Moss

#10. All improv turns into anger. All comedy improv basically turns into anger, because that's all people know how to do when they're improvising. If you notice shows that are improvising are generally people yelling at each other.

Albert Brooks

#11. I see the shape of the wind on the water ...

Per Petterson

#12. My family went to Toronto to visit relatives when I was 13 or 14. It was the first time we had ever been abroad. This was the early Eighties, and I remember the impossible glamour of air travel - my mum spending days trying to decide what she was going to wear on the plane.

John Niven

#13. What self-acceptance does is open up more possibilities of succeeding because you aren't fighting yourself along the way.

Shannon Ables