Anthony Ray Hinton Quotes

Bitterness kills the soul.

Anthony Ray Hinton

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• I think we all feel geeky at times, don't we? Isn't that all a part of the wonderful tapestry of life?

  

  Kate Bush
  • Life
  • Think
  • Feel

• Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Me
  • Hell
  • Shine

• I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • People
  • Song
  • You

• There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Truth
  • Source
  • Pursuit

• You aren't going to leave me alone are you?

  

  Edie Adams
  • Me
  • Alone
  • Leave

• The most important thing is posture: when you get old, it's the way you walk, the way you stand, that shows it.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Important
  • Walk
  • Stand

• Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • War
  • Military
  • Cuba

• I haven't been hit since Leon Spinks hit me in '92.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Me
  • Hit
  • Leon

• I would put myself towards left of center.

  

  Yvette Clarke
  • Myself
  • Left
  • Center

• Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • World
  • Great
  • Men

• As a leader, you have to have the ability to assimilate new information and understand that there might be a different view.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Different
  • Understand
  • Leader

• I think there's a very clear recognition and understanding that the progress of women in business at the very highest decision-making levels is too slow. This is a discussion that's going on in every country around the world, actually.

  

  Quentin Bryce
  • World
  • Women
  • Country

• Coming from a middle class background, travel was always considered a luxury then, even if it meant going to a relative's place or a religious shrine.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Always
  • Religious
  • Travel

• All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings.

  

  Edmund Waller
  • Value
  • Things
  • Human

• In the face of Russian aggression, we’re not going to turn our back to our allies in Europe. We’re going to stay united in NATO, which is the world’s strongest alliance.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World

• I'm upset by the happiness of all these men who don't know they're unhappy. ... Because of that, though, I love them all. Dear vegetables!

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Men

• The position of woman has doubtless been elevated through the influence of Christianity, but... it is probably fair to say that most of the great Churches through their teaching and organization have exerted a conservative and retarding influence on the rise of woman to equality with man.

  

  Walter Rauschenbusch
  • Great
  • Organization
  • Equality

• Abandoned by philosophy, politics, and sociology, historical determinism continues to hold out in formalist art criticism.

  

  Harold Rosenberg
  • Art
  • Criticism

• It contains some - not all, but some - of the things I want my daughters to know. And the greatest of these is love. please know that you had mine, unconditional, and powerful and awesome. So strong that I can't believe it will die with me. I want to imagine it as a living thing that goes beyond my body and my death, as a vine that has grown and wound its way through the very core of you all, and cannot be uprooted or destroyed, but rather will hold you erect when everything else is crumbling and withering inside you.

  

  Elizabeth Noble
  • Believe
  • Death
  • Imagine

• I can enjoy her while she's kind;But when she dances in the wind,And shakes the wings and will not stay,I puff the prostitute away: The little or the much she gave is quietly resign'd: Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.

  

  John Dryden
  • She
  • Soul
  • Poverty

• The truth of love is the truth of the universe: it is the lamp of the soul that reveals the secrets of darkness

  

  Kabir
  • Truth
  • Soul
  • Universe

• Bitterness kills the soul.

  

  Anthony Ray Hinton
  • Soul
  • Bitterness