Alan Bleasdale famous quotes

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To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.
-- Alan Bleasdale

#Love #Heart #Exercise
There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.
-- Alan Bleasdale

#Anger #Men #Beastly
It's easy to be generous with money. Far harder to be generous with your time.
-- Alan Bleasdale

#Generosity #Easy #Harder
I've got a group who can't play music, one bad comedian plus boyfriend, a nervous breakdown calling himself a magician, two coachloads of 70-year-old religious maniacs looking for a fight and a fancy-dress contest that nobody knew about.
-- Alan Bleasdale

#Religious #Fighting #Years

But if you ever come to a road where danger; Or guilt or anguish or shame's to share. Be good to the lad who loves you true, And the soul that was born to die for you; And whistle and I'll be there.
If this world affords true happiness, it is to be found in a home where love and confidence increase with the years, where the necessities of life come without severe strain, where luxuries enter only after their cost has been carefully considered.
I'd walked too close to heaven and gotten a glimpse. The hell I'd lived before her no longer appealed to me.
Only those who love with the heart can animate the love of others.
Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.
Sometimes,' said Pooh, 'the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.
Temptation exercises our faith and teaches us to pray.
Genius is a sovereign power; it forms schools; it lays hold on the spirits of men, with irresistible might; and it exercises an immeasurable influence on the whole condition of human life. This sovereignty of genius is a gift of God, possessed only by his grace. It is subject to no one and is responsible to him alone who has granted it this ascendancy.
The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are perhaps always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding or to exercise his invention in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become.
I did a real boot camp once which with The Thin Red Line which was learning military exercises and this was far less strenuous. I really had a blast. We were all kind of thrown into the woods and we didn't have any of the modern conveniences that we take for granted. Learned how to survive without anything.

Alan Bleasdale famous quotes

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