Jack Gilbert Quotes

The heart lies to itself because it must.

Jack Gilbert

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• I have to experience all the ghastly, bottomless depths for life for myself; it's for that reason that I went to war, and for that reason I volunteered.

  

  Otto Dix
  • Life
  • Experience
  • War

• If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • People
  • Kids
  • Light

• The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • World
  • Find
  • Difficult

• There's a lot more to me than just power.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Power
  • Me
  • More

• The first time I thought I should be an actor was in school. I thought, 'At least this is something for which I won't have to study.' But I've realised that an actor needs to be constantly unsure about what he's doing and about what's going on around him. The moment you think you've nailed it, you're dead.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Time
  • School
  • Study

• I kept my babies fed. I could have dumped them, but I didn't. I decided that whatever trip I was on, they were going with me. You're looking at a real daddy.

  

  Barry White
  • Looking
  • Babies
  • Trip

• I have friends who say, 'You just can't understand what it's like to be a mother until you're a mother.'

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • Friends
  • Mother
  • Understand

• There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.

  

  Quico Canseco
  • Up
  • Giving
  • Liberty

• It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again.

  

  A. E. van Vogt
  • Beginning
  • Years
  • Beginnings

• I started to realize I wasn't like every other boy.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Like
  • Boy
  • Realize

• You have to open up on stage.

  

  Karen O
  • Up
  • You
  • Stage

• Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators.

  

  Olin Miller
  • Writing
  • Living
  • Wrestling

• I know what it feels like to be a victim of domestic violence.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Know
  • Like
  • Violence

• Of course, in the United States, which at the time was a very young country, there were also class distinctions. They weren't as pronounced, but they quickly evolved as well.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Time
  • Country
  • Young

• I was born in Nizhny Novgorod to a very poor family and unfortunately my father and mother separated when I was very little.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
  • Family
  • Mother
  • Father

• The idea is a straightforward one. We provide an account for every newborn in America, a $500 account.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • America
  • Idea
  • Newborn

• What is classical music if not the epitome of sensuality, passion, and understated erotica that popular music, even with all of its energy and life, cannot even begin to touch?

  

  Lara St. John
  • Life
  • Music
  • Energy

• I would love to tell you that it's been absolutely perfect, that I've been a man that's been super Christian. But I've had mistakes, dumb things I've regretted, so it's not a perfect life. But it's one that has helped me make better decisions.

  

  A.J. Styles
  • Life
  • Perfect
  • Mistakes

• Fascism was an explosion against intolerable conditions, against remediable wrongs which the old world failed to remedy. It was a movement to secure national renaissance by people who felt themselves threatened with decline into decadence and death and were determined to live, and live greatly.

  

  Oswald Mosley
  • People
  • World
  • Live

• Admitting he never had any religion, he calls a friend his 'god' and the love of other people, God's spirit.

  

  Patch Adams
  • People
  • God
  • Friend

• If a person is fearful, it is a fearful time. If a person is hopeful, it's a hopeful time. If you look at world events one way, fear is reasonable. If you look at the world another way, hope is justified.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Time
  • World
  • Hope

• Bach is like an astronomer who, with the help of ciphers, finds the most wonderful stars . . . Beethoven embraced the universe with the power of his spirit . . . I do not climb so high. A long time ago I decided that my universe will be the soul and heart of man.

  

  Frederic Chopin
  • Heart
  • Help
  • Universe

• I never thought I wanted to direct. I love the control of it. I love to dream of scenes.

  

  Salli Richardson
  • Dream
  • Control
  • Scenes

• The heart lies to itself because it must.

  

  Jack Gilbert
  • Heart
  • Lies