"Lucian [of Samosata; 120-190 CE] was trying to make his audience laugh, rather than start a revolution"

-- Jennifer Michael Hecht

#Laughing Quotes #Trying Quotes #Revolution Quotes

“Dear Lord, I pray that my place will never be with the cold, timid souls who do not compete yet criticize, for they never know or feel success or failure.”

Source : "Bob Stoops: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. September 15, 2011.
“Lust is what keeps you wanting to do it even when you have no desire to be with each other. Love is what makes you want to be with each other even when you have no desire to do it.”
“I said peace is sometimes narrowly interpreted; it's the absence of conflict between nations or something. But peace is more inherent, more basic to human life, human beings, what we feel about each other, what we feel about life around us and what we see in our future.”
“I always tell people that religious institutions and political institutions should be separate. So while I'm telling people this, I myself continue with them combined. Hypocrisy!”
“Don't bother looking at the view - I have already composed it.”
“To put your hands in a river is to feel the chords that bind the earth together.”
“You give up your dream, you give up.”
“You want me to act like we've never kissed, you want to forget; pretend we've never met , and I've tried and I've tried, but I haven't yet... You walk by, and I fall to pieces.”

Source : Song: I Fall to Pieces

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