"It is a difficult matter to keep love imprisoned."

-- Apuleius

#Matter Quotes #Difficult Quotes

“I'm everything I'm made of. So a part of me is made of classical music. I'm grateful for it.”

Source : "Ledisi: A Singer's Second Life". "All Things Considered" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. July 9, 2011.
“[I]n every part of this eastern world, from Pekin to Damascus, the popular teachers of moral wisdom have immemorially been poets.”

Source : Sir William Jones (1875). “Eleven Discourses: Containing His Anniversary Addresses on History, Civil and Natural, the Antiquities, Arts, Sciences and Literature of Asia”, p.129
“Most people do not go to the dentist until they have a toothache; most societies do not reform abuses until the victims begin to make life uncomfortable for others.”

Source : Charles Philip Issawi (1991). “Issawi's laws of social motion”, Darwin Pr
“I think the best war photos I have taken have always been made when a battle was actually taking place - when people were confused and scared and courageous and stupid and showed all these things. When you look at people right at the very moment of truth, everything is quite human. You take a picture at this moment with all the mistakes in it, with everything that might be confusing to the reader, but that's the right combat photo.”
“I lived in Alabama and Georgia, and the people in the south are wonderful. It's God, faith, family, country.”
“I was born a singer. I need to do that.”
“The fact that Saigyo composed a poem that begins, "I shall be unhappy without loneliness," shows that he made loneliness his master.”
“Feel the Fear. Do it anyway!”

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