Old School Love Song Quotes & Sayings

There is joint action, but no joint thinking. There is only tradition which preserves thoughts and communicates them to others as a stimulus to their thinking. — Ludwig Von Mises

Whenever I love you, I find myself more loving. — Debasish Mridha

Yet, it's our emotions and imperfections that makes us human. — Clyde DeSouza

A soul,
a spark of the never-dying flame that separates man from all the other beings of earth. — James F. Cooper

He didn't kill himself because of a single overwhelming problem; he died from a thousand tiny wounds. — Shaun David Hutchinson

He [Alan Lomax] started right off trying to find people who could introduce folk songs to city people. He found a young actor named Burl Ives and said, "Burl, you know a lot of great country songs learned from your grandmother, don't you know people would love to hear them?" He put on radio programs. He persuaded CBS to dedicate "The School of the Air" for one year to American folk music. He'd get some old sailor to sing an old sea shanty with a cracked voice. Then he'd get me to sing it with my banjo. — Pete Seeger

It was as if I was in a picture, a flat canvas, and everything around me was flat, me painted on like everything else: no colour, nothing in front and nothing behind me, not even earlier today or tomorrow, nothing to look back or forward to, just this moment. — Tim Relf

You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday — Jonathan Swift

A cancer cell is an astonishing perversion of the normal cell. Cancer is a phenomenally successful invader and colonizer in part because it exploits the very features that make us successful as a species or as an organism. — Siddhartha Mukherjee

Any life partner whom I choose must be willing to choose me in return, above all others, to hold fast in the face of any opposition, and to suffer no barrier to come between us. — Elaine Owen

Humility is one of the most repulsive virtues, nearly always false. — George Mikes

I was getting to bed about 10 P.M. so wound up and not getting to sleep by 11, and because I was putting the prosthetics on for five hours, I had to be up at 3 in the morning. — Gerard Butler

My childhood was marked by the great fear of nuclear holocaust. We practiced our Civil Defense Drills, lining up in hallways, curled to the floor, but we knew we'd die or, worse, survive only to suffer radiation and slow death. — Julianna Baggott

The human race, for all our facets and our institutional stupidity, is something I believe in. I admire our diversity, our stubbornness. The dynamic of conflict is one of our greatest traits. — Peter F. Hamilton

You don't need to be for or against the war to provide morale and support to the men and women who are fighting over seas. These are human beings who are doing a service. — Mike Thompson

All I ever wanted to be was president of the American League. — A. Bartlett Giamatti