"So I cradle this average violin that knows Only forgotten showtunes, but argues The possibility of free declamation anchored To a dull refrain...."

-- John Ashbery

#Music Quotes #Musician Quotes #Arguing Quotes

“It's critical - that the people that are benefiting today from Medicare and Social Security that they not see benefit reductions. It's awfully hard to tell someone who might be 82, that they've gotta go back to work, because their benefits are gonna be chopped. That's not gonna happen.”

Source : "Super Congress Deficit Committee Member Fred Upton: No Cuts To Social Security Benefits" by Elise Foley, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 18, 2011.
“Don't make anyone ask for love.”
“"A guy who knows how to dance knows how to fight. A guy who knows how to fight knows how to love. A person who knows how to fight will break bones yet a person who knows how to love will break hearts".”
“An intimate relationship is one in which neither party silences, sacrifices, or betrays the self and each party expresses strength and vulnerability, weakness and competence in a balanced way.”

Source : Harriet Lerner (2009). “The Dance of Intimacy: A Woman's Guide to Courageous Acts of Change in Key Relationships”, p.3, Harper Collins
“What woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heel print upon another woman's face?”
“The Jews always complained, kvetching about false gods, and erected the biggest false God, Jehovah, in middle of western civilization.”
“Your work speaks for you.”
“Once in a while, when everything is just right, there is a moment of magic. People can live on moments of magic.”

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