“I know it aches, how your heart it breaks. You can only take so much. Walk on.”
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Inspired Quotes — page 217 of 313
“Speaking as a New Yorker, I found [September 11] a shocking and terrifying event, particularly the scale of it.”
“Oh, how portentous is prosperity! How comet-like, it threatens while it shines.”
“Woes cluster. Rare are solitary woes; They love a train, they tread each other's heel.”
“Ah, how unjust to Nature and himself Is thoughtless, thankless, inconsistent man!”
“Death! great proprietor of all! 'tis thine To tread out empire, and to quench the stars.”
“Groan under gold, yet weep for want of bread.”
“In youth, what disappointments of our own making: in age, what disappointments from the nature of things.”
“I want to show you that you can leap tall buildings, walk through walls, and change reality.”
“I get inspired by the notion of transforming people into extraordinary versions of themselves.”
“Of all the nations in the Western world, the United States, with the most money and the most time, has the fewest readers of books per capita. This is an incalculable loss. This, too, is one of the few civilized nations in the world which is unable to support a single magazine devoted solely to books.”
“Losing money is a big loss, losing friends is greater than the loss, also lost all faith is lost”
“To most teenagers, life is a strange uncharted land filled with a mixture of new joys, intensely felt, and painful confusions for which they know no anodyne.”
“Because they have so little, children must rely on imagination rather than experience.”
“I saw Alien when I was 8 years old. To me, it was like a combination of Jaws and Star Wars and that's the movie that made me want to be a director.”
“We cannot indefinitely avoid depressing subject matter, particularly it it is true, and in the subsequent quarter century the world has had to hear a story it would have preferred not to hear - the story of how a cultured people turned to genocide, and how the rest of the world, also composed of cultured people, remained silent in the face of genocide. (v)”
“I've worked with five Presidents in America, all of them I ask the same question always: Why didn't the American allies bomb the railways going to Auschwitz?”
“If there is one person on the planet who still is suffering from loneliness and from pain or despair, and we don't know about it, or we don't want to know about it, then something is wrong with the world.”
“It is obvious that the war which Hitler and his accomplices waged was a war not only against Jewish men, women, and children, but also against Jewish religion, Jewish culture, Jewish tradition, therefore Jewish memory.”
“I was inspired by the marvelous example of Giacometti, the great sculptor. He always said that his dream was to do a bust so small that it could enter a matchbook, but so heavy that no one could lift it. That's what a good book should be.”