James Tate Quotes

Quotes to Explore

• In China, because Chinese is a tonal language, it can be kind of hard to follow people's emotional tracks. There was one moment where a woman I was interviewing just sort of burst into tears, and I can usually sort of tell when things are coming on, and in that moment, it was very unexpected.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • People
  • Woman
  • Emotional

• They're not willing to admit that I've also shed blood and tears and often paid dearly for my success. This makes me feel extremely sad.

  

  Zhang Ziyi
  • Success
  • Me
  • Sad

• I think this is really a defining moment for the Arab world. The problem is, it is all going to be about blood, sweat and tears. In certain countries it may be just sweat, and in some countries sweat and tears, and in some countries, as you can see, a lot of blood. I think initial instability is something that we are all extremely nervous of.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • World
  • May
  • Problem

• Life would be very dreary if there were no magic. If the real world were only that veil of tears, I just don't think could get up in the morning.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • Life
  • Up
  • World

• When one tears away the veils and shows them naked, people's souls give off such a pungent smell of decay.

  

  Octave Mirbeau
  • People
  • Tears
  • Smell

• Tears at times have the weight of speech.

  

  Ovid
  • Tears
  • Speech
  • Weight

• A lot of my childhood memories involve walking home in floods of tears. At that age, feeling unpopular is difficult to handle.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Home
  • Age
  • Feeling

• My grandmother, grandfather, my mom - we've always been driven by laughter. It's what held us together. Thanksgivings, any kind of family get-together, we usually end up in tears.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Up
  • Family
  • Together

• There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Grief

• We should make it so that young people pay their fair share for health care, and nothing more. And instead of Washington telling us what to buy, let's get back to letting every American choose the plan that's best for them and their family.

  

  Aaron Schock
  • People
  • Family
  • American

• 'Winner' is a commercial family entertainer with a strong emotional core. Teju couldn't hold back his tears after watching the movie. The horse race portions were mostly shot in Turkey.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Family
  • Movie
  • Strong

• I will never forget my beautiful days with you in Shanklin, they are certainly the most pleasant ones of my life. Look, I have tears in my eyes just to think about it. I am furious to be here, it is the end of happiness for a whole year.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Life
  • Beautiful
  • Eyes

• The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Words
  • Tears
  • Forgiveness

• In any really good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears.

  

  Edith Wharton
  • Good
  • Deep
  • Tears

• Gold medals are made out of your sweat, blood and tears, and effort in the gym every day, and sacrificing a lot.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Day
  • Effort
  • Gold

• People miss those who they love. It brings tears to my eyes to see the longing for me. But it's my decision to do fewer films and more protagonist-based roles. For me to take up something, it has to make a lot of sense to me.

  

  Rani Mukerji
  • People
  • Love
  • Decision

• Like the women in my family, I've found the women in my lab a hard-nosed, ambitious lot who have gone on to be faculty members at top universities. In my own family, it is my father who is prone to bursting into tears.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Women
  • Family
  • Father

• When women and men can shed an equal quantity of tears in public, that's when we'll have equal power.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Men
  • Women
  • Power

• Colors pursue me like a constant worry. They even worry me in my sleep.

  

  Claude Monet
  • Sleep
  • Worry
  • Colors

• If you ask any police officer what the worst part of the job is, they will always say breaking bad news to relatives, but this is not the truth. The worst part is staying in the room after you've broken the news, so that you're forced to be there when someone's life disintegrates around them. Some people say it doesn't bother them - such people are not to be trusted.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • Job
  • Truth
  • Trusted

• When I'm feeling frustrated with a story, I have faith that it's going to come. Also, when I first started writing, I wanted to write the stories that were not in my childhood, to represent people who hadn't historically been represented in literature.

  

  Jacqueline Woodson
  • People
  • Writing
  • Feeling

• 'There have been women I have loved ... A lot, as discreetly as possible.'''Affair' story will continue to rumble' Christian Fraser, BBC News, 14 January 2014

  

  Jacques Chirac
  • Women
  • Christian

• My father was more than apprehensive. He didn't think I stood a chance in hell. He had no confidence in me whatsoever and was convinced that I was going to be coming to him for money when I was 40. We argued about it constantly.

  

  George Michael
  • Money
  • Confidence
  • My Father

• If you laughed earlier in the poem, and I bring you close to tears in the end, that's the best.

  James Tate
  • Tears