"Just because you've written a song doesn't mean that you have pulled through. There are definitely songs where I embodied someone else's pain and that was purely to serve the listener because I knew they needed to hear something. But most of the good stuff comes from my life."

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Source : Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

#Song Quotes #Pain Quotes #Mean Quotes

“Everybody who served in John Kerry's boat under his command, save one, has stood with him.”

Source : "Shields and Kristol Discuss Kerry’s War Record". "PBS NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. August 20, 2004.
“Listen to others as if they are telling you the truth, ask questions when you aren't clear, and allow others the room to have different feelings than you. No more assigning hidden motives, prejudging and cutting people off before separating fact from fiction.”
“If Christ has risen the Bible is true from Genesis to Revelation. The kingdom of darkness has been overthrown. Satan has fallen like lightning from heaven; and the triumph of truth over error, of good over evil, of happiness over misery, is forever secured.”

Source : Charles Hodge (1872). “Systematic Theology”, p.627
“Being always overavid, I demand from those I love a love equal to mine, which, being balanced people, they cannot supply.”
“The more I reflect on the graces I have received, the more they astonish me and make me tremble.”
“The theory of undirected evolution is already dead, but the work of science continues.”
“Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist is to take these handfuls of confusion and disparate things, things that seem to be irreconcilable, and put them together in a frame to give them some kind of shape and meaning.”

Source : Katherine Anne Porter, Joan Givner (1987). “Katherine Anne Porter: Conversations”, p.88, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“It is good for society to have this introspection.”

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