"This creature softened my heart of stone. She died and with her died my last warm feelings for humanity."

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Source : "Young Stalin" by Simon Sebag Montefiore, (p. 193), 2007.

Joseph Stalin

#Heart Quotes #Feelings Quotes #Humanity Quotes

“You have a lot of ups and downs in coaching, especially, but I can't remember any bad times at this point. I mean, they're all good. A lot of tears when you lose, a lot of down times, but I can't remember any of them. They're all positive now. Even the bad times were good.”
“There's no such thing as information overload-only filter failure.”
“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.”
“We'll be able to have very intelligent, little robots with computers going inside our bloodstream, keeping us healthy from inside, destroying cancer at the level of one cell.”
“I like the word 'artist,' but I don't like the word 'artist' inside my house.”

Source : "How Psy taught me Gangnam Style". Interview with Jay Rayner, www.theguardian.com. November 17, 2012.
“I had a hole in my voice. It's an area in the voice where it's air. It's just - there's no - it's just very airy. And my classical teachers were just so frustrated with me because I would have these deep, low notes that were really strong, and the higher register was strong, but right in that middle area, it was really hard. It was like a passage. And many singers go through this and work it out. But I realized in jazz, I could just take advantage of that and take advantage of having a voice that was very different in different areas.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org
“We learn by teaching.”

Source : James Howell (1660). “Lexicon Tetraglotton, an English-French-Italian-Spanish Dictionary: Whereunto is Adjoined a Large Nomenclature of the Proper Terms (in All the Four) Belonging to Several Arts and Sciences, to Recreations, to Professions Both Liberal and Mechanick, &c. Divided Into Fiftie Two Sections; with Another Volume of the Choicest Proverbs in All the Said Toungs, (consisting of Divers Compleat Tomes)”
“Omissions are not accidents.”

Source : Marianne Moore (1994). “Complete Poems”, p.5, Penguin

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