"It is an ill thing to be the first to bring news of ill."

-- Aeschylus

#News Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Ill Quotes

“You see that in the news constantly; done both the right way and the wrong way. The most recent example I can think of, obviously, is Lance Armstrong, who got it all wrong. Who wanted to apologize strategically, instead of abjectly. What got me interested was the repetitive nature of it. There's something so ritualized about it. Then the ritual needs to be reenacted very carefully and pretty frequently - Tiger Woods, and now Manti Te'o and Lance Armstrong, and a little earlier Anthony Weiner or Eliot Spitzer.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Come, thou long expected Jesus, born to set thy people free; from our fears and sins release us; let us find our rest in thee. Israel's strength and consolation, hope of all the earth thou art, dear desire of every nation, joy of every longing heart.”

Source : Charles Wesley, Frederic M. BIRD (1867). “Charles Wesley seen in his finer and less familiar poems. [A collection of his poems edited by F. M. Bird.]”, p.59
“Once a vampire drinks another vampires blood they are connected to them forever”
“If a symbolic language dies, it tortures us like a nightmare, like a thousand piece orchestra grating on our nerves and tearing our mind to pieces... It is a corpse with no symbolic power or strength.”

Source : "Asger Jorn" by Arken Museum of Modern Art, (p. 166), 2002.
“There was nothing else to do but call upon the Creator, praying, begging, pleading, bargainingâ€”anything to make him protect Xavier. I couldnâ€™t have him ripped away from me like that. I could survive emotional turmoil; I could survive the most intense physical torture. I could survive Armageddon and holy fire raining down upon the earth, but I could not survive without him.”

Source : Alexandra Adornetto (2011). “Hades”, p.63, Macmillan
“Ronnie Spector's hair was taller and meaner and scarier than all four Shangri-La's combined, plus the drummer from the Honeycombs. You just know her rat-tail comb was a switchblade.”
“I know what I believe. I will continue to articulate what I believe and what I believe - I believe what I believe is right.”
“The less there is of fear, the less there is of danger.”

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