Edward Joseph Young Quotes

A tender smile, our sorrows' only balm.

Edward Joseph Young

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• Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the other side.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Fear
  • Light
  • Dark

• I don't try to sugarcoat things, but I also think my books make positive statements about the people and values in small-town America.

  

  Tawni O'Dell
  • People
  • America
  • Small

• What I want is to respond to the challenge posed by the mass media - to permit the novel to say what can only be said by narrative - to allow it to be itself.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Want
  • Challenge
  • Media

• I am inspired by anything beautiful. Sometime it's a pair of eyes or flowing gorgeous hair, other times it's the sky or a sunset. I've been inspired by supple skin or the texture of a soft shirt.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • Beautiful
  • Eyes
  • Hair

• I am not thinking about life after football, but I know it will be another life, another world.

  

  Francesco Totti
  • Life
  • World
  • Thinking

• Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach.

  

  Ted Koppel
  • Truth
  • Society
  • Strong

• It doesn't matter how precisely the onion is cut as long as the person chewing it is happy.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Long
  • Happy
  • Matter

• The producers and writers of dance music are becoming the stars, not so much the DJs.

  

  Kaskade
  • Music
  • Dance
  • Stars

• Mexico is the only country in the world that has a trade agreement with United States and Canada, and at the same time has one with Europe. These are the two largest markets in the world. By the same token, Mexico has one of the most open economies.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Time
  • World
  • Country

• I don't keep my secrets or my knowledge to myself.

  

  Natalia Makarova
  • Knowledge
  • Myself
  • Secrets

• Ali was a threat because he was a voice, and the people hated Ali when he was a voice, but once Ali could no longer speak and he wasn't a voice, they loved him. Love me now. I don't want to be loved if I could barely walk or barely talk. That's not cool.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • People
  • Cool
  • Voice

• My heart was a habitation large enough for many guests, but lonely and chill, and without a household fire. I longed to kindle one! It seemed not so wild a dream.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Heart
  • Dream
  • Fire

• O masters, lords and rulers in all lands How will the Future reckon with this Man? How answer his brute question in that hour When whirlwinds of rebellion shake all shores? How will it be with kingdoms and with kings - With those who shaped him to the thing he is - When this dumb Terror shall rise to judge the world. After the silence of the centuries?

  

  Edwin Markham
  • World
  • Future
  • Question

• To me the acid test was always the crew, and if the crew liked you, you're OK.

  

  Ann Rutherford

• There's nothing worse than sitting down to write a novel and saying, 'Well, okay, I'm going to do something of high artistic worth.'

  

  Douglas Adams
  • High

• You don't want to be a gimmick. You don't want to be a set piece, where people go, 'Hey, that's weird.'

  

  Ato Essandoh
  • People
  • Weird

• I love the Beatles, but I don't listen to them at all regularly. Most of my friends are bigger Beatles fans than I am. I respect them, and I love them - 'Abbey Road' is probably one of my favorite albums, but I don't think I've ever listened to the 'White Album' the whole way through.

  

  Kevin Parker Tame Impala
  • Friends
  • Respect
  • Road

• I don't have one polarizing message. It is just about being consistent over the years.

  

  Andre Ward

• I'm the middle man. I try to keep people happy. I go out of my way to get a smile. That's the way my mother raised me.

  

  Donald Dunn
  • People
  • Happy
  • Mother

• We've all met those who seem to radiate happiness. They seem to smile more than others; they laugh more than others - just being around them makes us happier as well.

  

  Joseph B. Wirthlin
  • Smile

• May I love you away from the evils of today to the dreams of tomorrow, you know heaven has no sorrow.

  

  Jimi Hendrix The Jimi Hendrix Experience
  • Love
  • Heaven
  • Dreams

• Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed, great as each may be, their highest comfort given to the sorrowful is a cordial introduction into another's woe. Sorrow's the great community in which all men born of woman are members at one time or another.

  

  Sean O'Casey
  • Men
  • Community
  • Jesus

• But then, life is a constant withering of possibilities. Some are stolen with the lives of people you love. Others are let go, with regret and reluctance and deep, deep sorrow. But there is compensation for lives unlived in the intoxicating joy of knowing that the life you have - right here, right now - if the one you have chosen. There is power in that, and hope.

  

  Emily Maguire
  • Love
  • Hope
  • Joy

• A tender smile, our sorrows' only balm.

  

  Edward Joseph Young
  • Smile
  • Sorrow