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The wailing of broken hearts is the doorway to God.

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• I was raised by very traditional Southern parents with Southern manners. You don't air your dirty laundry to people that aren't your family or your friends. Why would I ever want to portray myself as anything other than together?

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • People
  • Family
  • Why

• Put variety into your mental bill of fare as well as into your physical. It will pay you rich returns.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • You
  • Rich
  • Will

• My father was interested in bringing reggae music to the entire world.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • World
  • Music
  • Father

• What do I want in a good fantasy book? Court politics and social interactions based around houses and cities. Powerful women and devious men. Drama and action with emotional ramifications. Frocks. Kissing. Swords. An intense impression of history in the world-building.

  

  Tansy Rayner Roberts
  • World
  • Good
  • Men

• I would like to be a terrorist for music education - to make a complete reform, all over the world.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • World
  • Music
  • Education

• Definitely they write themselves. It's an amazing experience. It's like the characters have come alive and are sitting on my shoulder talking to me, telling me their tales.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • Experience
  • Me
  • Amazing

• 'South Pacific' - I really learned a lot. I swear I like to say that during 'South Pacific,' I went from being a girl to being a woman.

  

  Laura Osnes
  • Girl
  • Woman
  • South

• I have invented an invaluable permanent invalid called Bunbury, in order that I may be able to go down into the country whenever I choose.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Country
  • Permanent
  • Invented

• Truth is slippery, not because it is difficult to grasp, but because we prefer our preconceptions, our beliefs, our myths.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Truth

• Philosophy rests on a proposition that whatever is is right. Preaching begins by assuming that whatever is is wrong.

  

  Elbert Hubbard

• I'm the Imelda Marcos of sunglasses.... Very sensitive eyes to light. If somebody takes my photograph, I will see the flash for the rest of the day. My right eye swells up. I've a blockage there, so that my eyes go red a lot. So it's part vanity, it's part privacy and part sensitivity.

  

  Bono U2
  • Up
  • Light
  • Eyes

• I'm not trying to take over the world, but I find it really rewarding to write, and I thrive on learning.

  

  Bryce Dessner The National
  • World
  • Trying
  • Learning

• I have to be a teacher to my daughters.

  

  Carnie Wilson Wilson Phillips
  • Teacher

• There is no method by which an average citizen can effectively fight the White House in the media.

  

  Linda Tripp
  • House

• We drive into the future using only our rearview mirror.

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • Future
  • Mirror

• I don't want to go back to WWE and burn out within four or five months, and having another run as TNA world champion would feel just as good.

  

  Jeff Hardy
  • World
  • Good
  • Champion

• It is difficult to take in that your idols are in the same place as you are.

  

  Neymar

• I've abused myself a lot over the years. But my voice is still intact - really, it's better.

  

  Jimmy Cliff

• Quotes of Calder (1932), from Abstraction-Création, Art Non Figuratif, no. 1, 1932; Republished in: Alexander Calder, A. S. C. Rower, Ugo Mulas, Pier Giovanni Castagnoli, Palazzo delle esposizioni (Rome, Italy) Calder: Sculptor of Air, Motta, 2009. p. 111 & p. 222

  

  Alexander Calder
  • Art
  • Air

• I'm not one for conventional wisdom. I founded my label in 1998, but after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, my Japanese backers pulled out, and I couldn't afford to produce the line myself. I needed fresh ideas from someone who understood technology, since that was the direction the business was going.

  

  Maria Cornejo
  • Business
  • Technology
  • Wisdom

• Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us... While what we call 'our own life' remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make 'our own life' less agreeable to us, and take away the plausible sources of false happiness?

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Life
  • God
  • Happiness

• I think my music's more disturbing than Tupac's - or at least I thought some of the themes of 'The Downward Spiral' were more disturbing on a deeper level - you know, issues about suicide and hating yourself and God and people and everything else.

  

  Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails
  • People
  • Music
  • God

• You can't undo anything you've already done, but you can face up to it. You can tell the truth. You can seek forgiveness. And then let God do the rest.

  

  Tertullian
  • God
  • Truth
  • Face

• The wailing of broken hearts is the doorway to God.

  

  Rumi
  • God
  • Hearts
  • Wailing