"The sorrow which calls for help and comfort is not the greatest, nor does it come from the depths of the heart."

-- Wilhelm von Humboldt

#Heart Quotes #Sorrow Quotes #Comfort Quotes

“Chefs work with food, artists with oil paint, programmers with code.”
“Better to cry wolf over and over than never to cry wolf at all.”
“I stayed under the moon too long.I am silvered with lust.Dreams flick like minnows through my eyes.My voice is trees tossing in the wind.I loose myself like a flock of blackbirdsstorming into your face.My lightest touch leaves blue prints,bruises on your mind.Desire sandpapers your skinso thin I read the veins and arteriesmaps of routes I will traveltill I lodge in your spine.The night is our fur.We curl inside it licking.”
“If you carry around anger and ugly emotions it will show on your face.”
“We need to be politically engaged, but peculiar in how we engage. Jesus and the early Christians had a marvelous political imagination. They turned all the presumptions and ideas of power and blessing upside down.”
“I actually had a movie green lit at Disney the same week 'Burlesque' was green lit - a movie for Disney called 'Mash-Up', about a high school marching band.”
“Our ancestors derived less from life than we do, but they also expected much less and were less intent on controlling the future. We are of the arrogant generations who believe a lasting happiness was promised to us at birth. Promised? By whom?”

Source : Amin Maalouf (2008). “Origins: A Memoir”, p.342, Macmillan
“The Wire' is very realistic and based on real events.”

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