"I don't think I could've carried the weight that Murrow carried."

-- David Strathairn

#Thinking Quotes #Weight Quotes

“The idea that religion and politics don't mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country.”

Source : "Jerry Falwell: An Unauthorized Profile". Book by William R. Goodman Jr.; James J. H. Price, 1981.
“Ever since the Christmas of 1953, I have felt that the yuletide is a special hell for those families who have suffered any loss or who must admit to any imperfection; the so-called spirit of giving can be as greedy as receiving-Christmas is our time to be aware of what we lack, of who's not home.”
“Unlike religious people, I look at all religions equally.”
“If you can't look after something in your care, you have no right to keep it.”

Source : Enid Blyton (1987). “The goblin hat and other stories”
“The thing you've got to watch for is going broke when you're old. Look at all the people that go down and out at the finish. The man who built my country place is blind now and penniless. That's terrible!”
“I write in order to understand the images. Being what my agent . . . somewhat ruefully calls a language playwright, is problematic because in production, you have to make the language lift off the page. But a good actor can turn it into human speech. I err sometimes toward having such a compound of images that if an actor lands heavily on each one, you never pull through to a larger idea. That's a problem for the audience. But I come to playwriting from the visual world - I used to be a painter. I also really love novels and that use of language. But it's tricky to ask that of the theatre.”
“What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty.”

Source : Dr. Shinichi Suzuki, Waltraud Suzuki (1983). “Nurtured by Love: The Classic Approach to Talent Education”, p.5, Alfred Music
“You're the key barrier to your organization's innovation, because you are serious and you believe you know what your customers want.”

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