"A saint is someone who has achieved a remote human possibility. It is impossible to say what that possibility is. I think it has something to do with the energy of love..."

-- Leonard Cohen

#Thinking Quotes #Energy Quotes #Saint Quotes

“A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said wouldn't be a great moral teacher. He'd be either a lunatic on a level with a man who says he's a poached egg or else he'd be the devil of hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse.”
“I am not a nurse escorting six lunatics to the ice cream parlor.”
“The perfect war is started for obscure reasons, is hopelessly murderous, and accomplishes nothing.”
“Gradually, they learned that politics is fundamentally a great business, a struggling and a haggling for advantages, over whose lap collects the most rewards cast by the legislation-machine.”
“All people end up somewhere in life, but few end up there on purpose.”
“If it's illegal to rock and roll, throw my ***** in jail!”
“I'm not attracted to naturalism, I'm not attracted to behavior, I'm attracted to dance. I'm attracted to gesture, I'm attracted to singing with your voice, as opposed to having a natural manner. I'm a theater actor first, so that probably influences a lot of my approach. And I think in many ways, naturalism has ruined movies.”

Source : "Sculpting Away". Interview with Simon Abrams, www.indiewire.com. March 19, 2012.
“In politics people build whole reputations off of getting one thing right.”

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