Gerald May Quotes

To be alive is to be addicted, and to be alive and addicted is to stand in need of grace.

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• Only twice have I really had a hard time leaving a character. The first was my character in 'Rome' and then in 'Homeland.'

  

  Zuleikha Robinson
  • Time
  • Character
  • Leaving

• Society in the English countryside is still strangely, quaintly divided. If black comedy and a certain type of social commentary are what you want, I think English rural communities offer quite a lot of material.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Think
  • Society
  • Black

• A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.

  

  Nadia Boulanger
  • Work
  • Great
  • Liberty

• Self-preservation is the first law of nature.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Nature
  • Law
  • First

• French men can be very tough too, you know... Real bad boys move in silence, as we know, so you don't have to be loud and muscular to be scary, actually.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Men
  • Real
  • Bad

• Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • People
  • Great
  • Small

• What I like about music is the songs you can remember the lines of in a single second.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Music
  • Remember
  • You

• 'Hard Times' does not romanticize the Depression, but at least a few of Mr. Terkel's subjects managed to find silver linings.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Find
  • Depression
  • Silver

• It's a very fascinating thing for an actor to play somebody who is suffering, and you have to express the suffering, but in an inarticulate way and sometimes a dysfunctional way, through violence.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Play
  • Violence
  • Suffering

• With social media, people share mostly their best moments. Don't feel like you're not doing enough when you see a mom posting about making applesauce after you bought it. Ha ha! It's fine! Just for raising a little human being, you should be commended.

  

  Vanessa Lachey
  • People
  • Mom
  • Best

• God is love. I have loved. Therefore, I will go to heaven.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • God
  • Heaven
  • Loved

• I was living an extremely burdensome life, because every time I prayed, I became more clearly aware of my faults. On the one hand, God was calling me. On the other, I was following the way of the world. Doing what God wanted made me happy; but I felt bound by the things of this world.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Life
  • Time
  • World

• I want to meet everybody on 'Disney Channel' and 'Disney XD' that are alive.

  

  Quvenzhane Wallis
  • Want
  • Alive
  • Disney

• All religions and all communities have the same rights, and it is my responsibility to ensure their complete and total protection. My government will not tolerate or accept any discrimination based on caste, creed and religion.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Government
  • Responsibility
  • Religion

• When you're on set, the crew are like your family because you see them every day, six days a week.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Family
  • Day
  • Week

• At the resurrection, there will be the return of spirits to their bodies, the revivification of the bodies, and the remaking of the bodies.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Will
  • Return
  • Resurrection

• I tell my wife she is only the third most important thing after my country and my parents, in that order.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • Important
  • Country
  • She

• And of course, pop music is all about memorability and simplicity and positive messages and a little dash of joy.

  

  Feist
  • Music
  • Joy
  • Positive

• At birth we begin to discover that shapes, sounds, lights, and textures have meaning. Long before we learn to talk, sounds and images form the world we live in. All our lives, that world is more immediate than words and difficult to articulate. Photography, reflecting those images with uncanny accuracy, evokes their associations and our instant conviction. The art of the photographer lies in using those connotations, as a poet uses the connotations of words and a musician the tonal connotations of sounds.

  

  Nancy Newhall
  • Photography
  • Meaning
  • Birth

• The most consistent characteristic of awakened teachers and people I have met is a childlike nature. They laugh, cry, twinkle, and joke, all with a spontaneity born of freedom. Their faces are fluid and reflect a timeless sweetness, even into old age.

  

  Catherine Ingram
  • People
  • Age
  • Teacher

• As long as I am alive, I am fully committed to amity between Tibetans and Chinese. Otherwise there's no use.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Chinese
  • Alive
  • Tibetans

• Grace finds us beggars but leaves us debtors.

  

  Augustus Toplady
  • Grace
  • Beggars
  • Debtors

• To be alive is to be addicted, and to be alive and addicted is to stand in need of grace.

  

  Gerald May
  • Grace
  • Alive
  • Addicted