Silver Lining Playlist Quotes & Sayings

Everything that anyone respects is what men naturally excel at: fighting, accruing wealth, playing at power ... — Janet Morris

There is nothing selfish about enjoying yourself. In fact, as wise people have long said and psychologists have since discovered, happiness makes people less self-focused and more altruistic. — Roger N. Walsh

I don't think you can learn to be a complete musician. That has to come from within, and it entails a lot of sacrifice. — Yngwie Malmsteen

I don't know the taxpayer has perhaps much of an understanding of just how much wealth has been and is being and can be created that flows through the economy and just how many jobs depend upon it. — John Anderson

And always remember how much your crazy sister loves you. — Sarah Dessen

It makes me angry sometimes, it's a visceral thing
how you come to despise your own words in your ears not because they aren't genuine, but because they are; because you've said them so many times, your 'principles,' your 'ideals'
and so damned little in the world has changed because of them. — Joyce Carol Oates

Human beings may hate a distant enemy in theory, but they generally prefer to kill their neighbors. — Ralph Peters

All beings by nature are Buddhas, as ice by nature is water. Apart from water there is no ice; apart from beings, no Buddhas. — Hakuin Ekaku

[The English] find ill-health not only interesting but respectable and often experience death in the effort to avoid a fuss. — Pamela Frankau

It's made me more expectant of the imminent return of Jesus, and also more sensitive to the people around me. Knowing Jesus will return soon makes me want all the more to tell people about him and all that he offers. — Jerry B. Jenkins

There are times when you want to stop working at faith and just be washed in a blowing wind that tells you everything. — Don DeLillo

Only a few arrive at nothing, because the way is long. — Antonio Porchia

Where's my life gone? Where's it going? Looking across the grassy marshland to Flint and up the coast to Point Of Air, I start to wonder what all those poor fuckers in Wales are doing with their lives. Screwing? Sleeping in? Debating whether to take breakfast in bed to their broken fathers? Unlikely. They're probably doing what the gilded folk of Hollywood are doing, or Kowloon or Port Elizabeth. Worrying. Worrying about getting old, or about work, or about money, or about their boyfriend, mistress, lover, house, health, future. Life is shit. There is no fucking point to any of it. Not now that we've evolved past the survival stage. Maybe we used to live to hunt to kill to eat to live another day. Now we just kill time in as many sophisticated ways as possible. Pointless jobs. Pointless lives. Work. Television. Football. — Kevin Sampson

Most inherent beauties are hidden, as are precious stones in the rocks — Soke Behzad Ahmadi

I think a great artist should be able to create any style, any form, anything from rock to pop to gospel to spiritual, just wonderful music where everybody can sing it ... — Michael Jackson