“When nature gave us tears, She gave us leave to weep.”
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Inspired Quotes — page 224 of 313
“For over 1,700 years, the Jews have been bewailing their sad fate in that they have been exiled from their homeland, as they call Palestine. But gentlemen, did the world give it to them in fee simple, they would at once find some reason for not returning. Why? Because they are vampires, and vampires do not live on vampires. They cannot live only among themselves. They must subsist on Christians and other people not of their race.”
“I think that humanity brings much misery on itself by the false value they put on things.”
“Men's minds do not die with their bodies but are made more happy or miserable after this life according to their actions.”
“The grand leap of the whale up the Fall of Niagara is esteemed, by all who have seen it, as one of the finest spectacles in nature.”
“In America we have only the present tense. I am in danger. You are in danger.”
“War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political.”
“Despair, when not the response to absolute physical and moral defeat is, like war, the failure of imagination.”
“God planteth in mortal men the cause of sin whensoever he wills utterly to destroy a house.”
“When the black and mortal blood of man has fallen to the ground ... who then can sing spells to call it back again?”
“I think one artist to another artist, the best compliment you can pay one another, because the part of you that is inspired or creates something, to write a joke or a song, that's like the God-like part of a person.”
“At the time, I was reading this Miles Davis book, and he was talking about coming to New York right after he was in high school. It kind of made me feel like, "Yeah." I didn't want to go to college; I wanted to do stand-up. And I figured, "What's the point of doing stand-up around DC? I'm always going to be under-appreciated there because I started there." I felt like I was strong enough and unique enough that I should give it a big leash to shine. New York was the best thing that ever happened to me as a comedian.”
“I think hip-hop is actually one of the most challenging things that's happened in music in a long time.”
“In this country we're unprecedentedly safe, comfortable, and well fed, with more and better venues for stimulation. And yet if you were asked, 'Is this a happy or unhappy country?' you'd check the 'unhappy' box. We're living in an era of emotional poverty, which is something that serious drug addicts feel most keenly.”
“Probably the most dangerous thing about college education, at least in my own case, is that it enables my tendency to over-intellectualize stuff, to get lost in abstract arguments inside my head instead of simply paying attention to what's going on right in front of me. TC mark”
“I felt despair. The word’s overused and banalified now, despair, but it’s a serious word, and I’m using it seriously. For me it denotes a simple admixture — a weird yearning for death combined with a crushing sense of my own smallness and futility that presents as a fear of death. It’s maybe close to what people call dread or angst. But it’s not these things, quite. It’s more like wanting to die in order to escape the unbearable feeling of becoming aware that I’m small and weak and selfish and going without any doubt at all to die. It’s wanting to jump overboard.”
“And when he came to, he was flat on his back on the beach in the freezing sand, and it was raining out of a low sky, and the tide was way out.”
“All actors think every job will be their last.”
“[Barack Obama] is aware of the criticism back home [from Cuba] that this embargo still exists.”
“As someone who grew up in tough circumstances, I know that being on public assistance is not a spot that anyone wants to be in.”