Gerald May Quotes
To be alive is to be addicted, and to be alive and addicted is to stand in need of grace.
Quotes to Explore
-
Only twice have I really had a hard time leaving a character. The first was my character in 'Rome' and then in 'Homeland.'
-
A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.
-
Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
-
Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
-
What I like about music is the songs you can remember the lines of in a single second.
-
'Hard Times' does not romanticize the Depression, but at least a few of Mr. Terkel's subjects managed to find silver linings.
-
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.
-
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.
-
God is love. I have loved. Therefore, I will go to heaven.
-
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.
-
I want to meet everybody on 'Disney Channel' and 'Disney XD' that are alive.
-
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.
-
When you're on set, the crew are like your family because you see them every day, six days a 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.
-
I tell my wife she is only the third most important thing after my country and my parents, in that order.
-
And of course, pop music is all about memorability and simplicity and positive messages and a little dash of joy.
-
I don't get claustrophobic.
-
All I want to think about for a couple of months is art. The rest is a waste of time and emotion. So here’s the lovely Annunciation by Antonello de Messina I saw in Syracuse. Antonello was the first great Italian master of oil paints, because Sicily was too damp for fresco.
-
Only love can keep anyone alive...
-
There is so much good music in the U.S. and there is just a small section that gets recognised at the Grammys.
-
The moment we think we deserve mercy a little alarm bell should go off in our head because we are not talking about mercy anymore but justice.
-
To be alive is to be addicted, and to be alive and addicted is to stand in need of grace.
