"It is so important for me to try, and having tried I look back on failure and success as if it were all the same."

-- Tom T. Hall

#Trying Quotes #Important Quotes #Looks Quotes

“I need to start honing in on projects that I want to devote my time to and not put my energies into the unattainable ones.”

Source : Interview with Chris Martins, www.avclub.com. April 22, 2009.
“When some one reminded him that the people of Sinope had sentenced him to exile , he said, "And I sentenced them to stay at home .”
“Nobody thinks identically on Syria. But we share the same view with Russia that the future of the personalities in Syria will be determined by the people of Syria and not by people outside Syria.”

Source : "Iran's Javad Zarif on Syria, Russia, and Donald Trump". Interview with Robin Wright, www.newyorker.com. December 18, 2015.
“All the things that girls feel they are not when they fear that if they become, if they are, they will no longer be loved by the sisters whose hearts they have not meant to break. And besides, if the sisters are gone and only the beloved remains with his dense curls and his lips, how safe are you then? You have to have him or you will die if the sisters are gone with their listening ears and their feet to rub and their bodies to dress and their shared loneliness.”
“But how,â€ said Charles, who was close to tears, â€œhow can you possibly justify cold-blooded murder?â€™ Henry lit a cigarette. â€œI prefer to think of it,â€ he had said, â€œas redistribution of matter.”
“A poem needs understanding through the senses. The point of diving in a lake is not immediately to swim to the shore; itâ€™s to be in the lake, to luxuriate in the sensation of water. You do not work the lake out. It is an experience beyond thought. Poetry soothes and emboldens the soul to accept mystery.”
“In committing to artistic growth, you have to refine your skills to support your instincts.”
“It's a matter of balance of power. If the Supreme Court could just make a ruling and everybody has to bow down and fall on their faces and worship that law, it isn't a law because it hasn't been yet passed.”

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