Hallelujah Movie Quotes & Sayings

I think it was Milosz, the Polish poet, who when he lay in a doorway and watched the bullets lifting the cobbles out of the street beside him realised that most poetry is not equipped for life in a world where people actually die. But some is. — Ted Hughes

Happiness has a bad rap. People say it shouldn't be your goal in life. Oh, yes it should. — Richard Dreyfuss

Anger does not last, that way, for years. But there are other things. Impressions last, when they have been strong. — Henry James

12% of people marry because they are completely in love. 88% of people marry just so they are then liable for only half of their rent. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Much of modern military tactics is geared toward maneuvering the enemy into a position where they can essentially be massacred from safety. (pg. 140) — Sebastian Junger

I figure you really wanted me you'd say. Like now, maybe, if you dig. I'll fuckin carry you down your place on a run, you tell me aye, get you on your back afore the next word comes out your mouth. But you oughta have yourself certain, causen I ain't lookin for charity, an I ain't lettin you go after. Once ... once ain't enough for me, dig? — Stacia Kane

Your destiny lies in your own hands. But remember it was God who deposited it there! — Israelmore Ayivor

To realize lasting peace and sustainable development in human society, members of the international community have to cooperate with one another fully and make concerted efforts. — Wu Bangguo

I let her do some of my laundry and she slipped in a few meals in between, and next thing I remember, she was all moved in. — Jackson Browne

The funny thing is, though I write mysteries, it is the one genre in adult fiction I never read. I read Nancy Drew, of course, when I was a kid, but I think the real appeal is as a writer because I'm drawn to puzzly, complicated plots. — Elise Broach

The men in those old days of the seventeenth century, when in constant dread of attacks by Indians, always rose when the services were ended and left the house before the women and children, thus making sure the safe exit of the latter. — Alice Morse Earle

Newspapers ... give us the bald, sordid, disgusting facts of life. They chronicle, with degrading avidity, the sins of the second-rate, and with the conscientiousness of the illiterate give us accurate and prosaic details ... — Oscar Wilde

I had a brief theater background and loved the backstage world there's more backstage work in television, so I saw a job advertised and applied, and got it. That was back in 1977, when getting jobs was easy. — Lee Child