"Your going to be fine.I promise you."- with my finger I made an X sign on my chest-"cross my heart and hope to die,you have my word.You don't deserve to live like that,and we're going to turn things around."

-- Dave Pelzer

#Heart Quotes #Promise Quotes #Crosses Quotes

“I do not take things to the heart. I calculate and I do what needs to be done. If I were to start acting emotionally, it would destroy my work.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“the house protects the dreamer; the houses that are important to us are the ones that allow us to dream in peace. Guests we've had stop in for a night or two all come down the first morning, ready to tell their dreams.”

Source : Gaston Bachelard (2014). “The Poetics of Space”, p.34, Penguin
“I'm more Jewish than you think I am...I read the part of the Bible that said the Jews are God's chosen people.”
“I still lack a political, religious and philosophical world view - I change it every month - and so I'll have to limit myself to descriptions of how my heroes love, marry, give birth, die, and how they speak.”
“I think I have a tendency to overwork things. I have a hard time finding that sweet spot that most actors seem to be able to hit where they're doing the exact right amount of work, not overthinking, not underdoing it. I seem to either overdo it or underdo it.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“He was a man who wrote, who interpreted the world. Wisdom grew out of being handed just the smallest sliver of emotion. A glance could lead to paragraphs of theory.”
“No painting can exist without the tension of what it figures and what it concretely consists of. The pleasure of what it could mean and the pain of what it's not.”
“When I see a paragraph shrinking under my eyes like a strip of bacon in a skillet, I know I'm on the right track.”

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