#ch

I fancied I had some constancy of mind because I could bear my own sufferings, but found through the sufferings of others I could be weakened like a child. ↗

— Sarah Fielding

#because #child #constancy #could #fancied

I was condemned to be beheaded, or burnt, as the king pleased; and he was graciously pleased, from the great remains of his love, to choose the mildest sentence. ↗

— Sarah Fielding

#burnt #choose #condemned #graciously #great

It's never easy with characters in these dark and grave circumstances but that's my job. ↗

— Patricia Clarkson

#circumstances #dark #easy #grave #job

I am only interested in bad taste if I can enjoy a gruesome tango or watch a movie that makes me cry. ↗

— Manuel Puig

#bad #bad taste #cry #enjoy #gruesome

Mankind have their local attachments. They have a particular regard for the spot, in which they were born and nurtured. ↗

— Thomas Clarkson

#born #local #mankind #nurtured #particular

Neither can men, by the same principles, be considered as lands, goods, or houses, among possessions. It is necessary that all property should be inferiour to its possessor. But how does the slave differ from his master, but by chance? ↗

— Thomas Clarkson

#chance #considered #differ #does #goods

Should slavery be abolished there, (and it is an event, which, from these circumstances, we may reasonably expect to be produced in time) let it be remembered, that the Quakers will have had the merit of its abolition. ↗

— Thomas Clarkson

#circumstances #event #expect #had #may

When is a crisis reached? When questions arise that can't be answered. ↗

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

#arise #crisis #questions #reached

Tis this desire of bending all things to our own purposes which turns them into confusion and is the chief source of every error in our lives. ↗

— Sarah Fielding

#bending #chief #confusion #desire #error

For over two billion years, through the apparent fancy of her endless differentiations and metamorphosis the Cell, as regards its basic physiological mechanisms, has remained one and the same. It is life itself, and our true and distant ancestor. ↗

— Albert Claude

#basic #billion #cell #distant #endless