"That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget."
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"You know you're in trouble, when the bartender cries."
"Suffering pulls us farther away from other human beings. It builds a wall made of cries and contempt to separate us."
"Part of my family were ranchers. So you were expected to be quite macho. You weren't expected to cry. I was the exact opposite of that."
"There are glances of hatred that stab, and raise no cry of murder."
"Men perish with whispering sins-nay, with silent sins, sins that never tell the conscience that they are sins, as often with crying sins; and in hell there shall meet as many men that never thought what was sin, as that spent all their thoughts in the compassing of sin."
"Perhaps your own reiterated cries deafen you to the voice you hoped to hear"
"The hawk's cry is as sharp as its beak."
"I just wanted to be in show biz. I wanted to make music and sing and dance, tell jokes and stories, make ya smile, make ya cry - and charge you $ 8.50"
"The Scots are poor, cries surly English pride; True is the charge, nor by themselves denied. Are they not then in strictest reason clear, Who wisely come to mend their fortunes here?"
"Only that which does not teach, which does not cry out, which does not condescend, which does not explain, is irresistible."
"I have full cause of weeping, but this heart shall break into a hundred thousand flaws or ere I'll weep."
"Cry later, but for now, let's enjoy the laughter."
"There is a certain pleasure in weeping."
"It's not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying."
"When I listen to 'Nevermind,' I hate the production, but there's something about it that almost makes me cry at times."
"Laugh now, cry later."
"It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry 'I could have thought of that' is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn't, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too."
"[American family court] is a system that is corrupt on his best day. It is like being tied to the back of a pickup truck and dragged down a gravel late at night. No one can hear your cries and complaints and it is not over until they say it's over."
"I had rather be a kitten and cry mew Than one of these same metre ballet-mongers."