"I speak my own sins; I cannot judge another. I have no tongue for it."

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Source : Arthur Miller (2015). “The Crucible”, p.155, Bloomsbury Publishing

Arthur Miller

#Judging Quotes #Tongue Quotes #Speak Quotes

“I'm writing a novel about the Syrian war. It will be completely different from my short stories. I have to address my feelings directly because I cannot avoid the war. It's something in my soul, in my blood.”
“The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof. What I want is so simple I almost canâ€™t say it: elementary kindness. Enough to eat, enough to go around. The possibility that kids might one day grow up to be neither the destroyers nor the destroyed. Thatâ€™s about it. Right now I'm living in that hope, running down its hallway and touching the walls on both sides.”
“It is our own mental attitude which makes the world what it is for us. Our thought make things beautiful, our thoughts make things ugly. The whole world is in our own minds. Learn to see things in the proper light.”
“Music always sounds better on Friday.”

Source : FaceBook post by Lou Brutus from May 10, 2013
“How can you go wrong with two people in love? If a good boy loves a good girl, good. If a good boy loves another good boy, good. And if a good girl loves the goodness in good boys and good girls, then all you have is more goodness, and goodness has nothing to do with sexual orientation.”
“He died right after he retired, and seeing that made me feel more conscious of a man needing a motive to live. If I ever got out of coaching, I would have to get a job somewhere, or I'm afraid I'd wilt on the vine, too.”
“Now there is no taboo; everything is allowed. But one cannot simply go back to tonality, itâ€™s not the way. We must find a way of neither going back nor continuing the avant-garde. I am in a prison: one wall is the avant-garde, the other wall is the past, and I want to escape.”

Source : "Ligeti" by Alex Ross, www.therestisnoise.com. June 12, 2000.
“We are who we are, and when you accept people instead of trying to change them to fit your needs, your relationships can fully blossom.”

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