1561 Long Pond Quotes & Sayings

When you learn to feel the pain of an ant, you will truly learn to love this world. — Debasish Mridha

Sometimes the best virtue learned on the battlefield is modesty. — David Halberstam

I can't really hear the audience applause when I'm on stage. I'm totally immersed in the piece. But sometimes I get a lot of it and wonder, "Now, why did they applaud here?" If it's a white crowd, they usually applaud because they think it's a pretty movement. If it's a black crowd, it's usually because they identify with the message. — Judith Jamison

So ... I'm the funny one? I'm the funny sidekick?
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That's no way to talk about anyone! To say they're just hangers-on to someone more important. — China Mieville

My sister lived in the moment. She said she would love the summer only when it came and warmed her. But I lived and still live in the future. Where it's warm when it's cold. Where dreams are not yet reality. Where the sad people are happy. The only problem with living in the future is that everyone has died, including yourself. So your plans are fiction and your predictions are fantasy. Living in the future is pure fantasy. I think that's why I love it so dearly. — F.K. Preston

We're in a world where there's famine and hunger and people are dodging bullets and having their nails pulled out in dungeons so it's very hard for me to place any high value on the work that I do to write a song. Yeah, I work hard but compared to what? — Leonard Cohen

Terrorism requires only a few. Obviously, the West must defend itself by whatever means will be effective. But in devising means to fight the terrorists, it would surely be useful to understand the forces that drive them. — Bernard Lewis

It is great sin to swear unto a sin, But greater sin to keep a sinful oath. — William Shakespeare

My body is so important to me ... my face, my arms, my legs, my hands, my eyes, everything. I use everything I have. — Monica Bellucci

You have to believe that you deserve great things. You have to believe that you deserve to win each fight that you're in. You have to believe that you deserve to become a champion. — Michael Chandler

I feel like humor is a part of life. I don't think it comes through as much in the novels as it does in my head. — Stephenie Meyer

Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw. — Fran Lebowitz

All's fair in hate and Hollywood. — Charles Bukowski