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- In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.
- When things get really bad, just raise your glass and stamp your feet and do a little jig. That's about all you can do.
- I speak of a clinical depression that is the background of your entire life, a background of anguish and anxiety, a sense that nothing goes…
- Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.
- Take one step to the side and it's all absurd.
- I'm writing all the time. And as the songs begin to coalesce, I'm not doing anything else but writing. I wish I were one of…
- I listen to the radio and I like all kinds of music, you know, but I like to hear from people who have been there.…
- So the great affair is over but whoever would have guessed, It would leave us all so vacant and so deeply unimpressed, It's like our…
- I think what we like about music - and what we like about art in general....is that enterprise that stops our minds from spinning. Because…
- I’ve seen the nations rise and fall. I’ve heard their stories, heard them all, but love’s the only engine of survival.
- When you stop thinking about yourself all the time, a certain sense of repose overtakes you.
- This civil action is another case of a tragedy that has become all too familiar in the music industry: a business manager and professional advisers…
- I wish I could say everything in one word. I hate all the things that can happen between the beginning of a sentence and the…
- I know that there is an eye that watches all of us. There is a judgment that weighs everything we do. And before this great…
- All the lousy little poets coming around trying to sound like Charles Manson.
- I swear by this song and by all that I have done wrong, I will make it all up to thee.
- Israel, and you who call yourself Israel, the Church that calls itself Israel, and the revolt that calls itself Israel, and every nation chosen to…
- In streams of light I clearly saw The dust you seldom see, Out of which the Nameless makes A Name for one like me... All…
- In our rags of light, all dressed to kill.
- first of all nothing will happen and a little later nothing will happen again
- It's time that we began to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.
- They ended every speech with the word hiro, which means: like I said. Thus each man took responsibility for intruding into the inarticulate murmur of…
- Maybe there's a God above, As for me, all I've ever seemed to learn from love Is how to shoot at someone who outdrew you.…
- How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?
- Dream after dream we all lie in each other's arms
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle