"One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder."

-- W. E. B. Du Bois

#Dark Quotes #Two Quotes #Soul Quotes

“It's harder and harder to make a well-done romantic comedy these days because the conventions have been so played out.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Perhaps the individual is so viable a god because he can actually understand the ceremonial significance of the way he is treated, and quite on his own can respond dramatically to what is proffered him. In contacts between such deities there is no need for middlemen; each of these gods is able to serve as his own priest.”

Source : Erving Goffman (2005). “Interaction Ritual: Essays in Face to Face Behavior”, p.95, AldineTransaction
“Once I'm already in my room, I still have to open a door to get into my bed. It's like a giant box. It's like the boy in a bubble.”
“Here's what I didn't know when I was starting out that I now knowâ€¦I thought when you were starting out it was really hard to write because you hadn't broken in yet, you hadn't really hit your stride yet. What I found out paradoxically is that the next script you write doesn't get easier because you wrote one beforeâ€¦each one gets harder by a factor of 10.”
“When you review the Central American wars or other Latin American wars, you find that there were dictators and there were insurgents.”
“Any profession of faith…entrusts the mind and heart to a truth that cannot be proven but can be lived.”

Source : Luke Timothy Johnson (2007). “The Creed: What Christians Believe and Why it Matters”, p.66, Image
“I not only weaken the opposition, Iâ€™m going to make them dead ... and if anyone is strong enough to try to hold a demonstration, I will beat all those dogs and put them in a cage.”
“I kept telling everyone I wasn't going to Washington to stay. I go to visit.”

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