"I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing - not just a waiting."

-- Susan Sontag

#Waiting Quotes #Solitude Quotes #Able Quotes

“I sometimes cry in the moments that are not necessarily dramatic or tragic in the films, often because of the music. I wonder whether it's the music that has that effect on you in this film.”
“The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.”
“I went to Princeton from Amherst, where I split my interests between mathematics and philosophy.”
“Every act of every man is a moral act, to be tested by moral, and not by economic criteria.”
“The only way the corporate Body of Christ will fulfill the mission Christ has given it is for individual Christians to have a vision for fulfilling that mission personally.”
“I feel really blessed to first of all have the opportunity to do music, and second of all to have it be going well.”
“I'm surprised that the fight was kind of easy.”
“We do not seek an agreement with the [Palestinian] Arabs in order to secure the peace. Of course we regard peace as an essential thing. It is impossible to build up the country in a state of permanent warfare. But peace for us is a mean, and not an end. The end is the fulfillment of Zionism in its maximum scope. Only for this reason do we need peace, and do we need an agreement.”

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