Alan Paton Quotes
What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another? What broke when he could bring himself to thrust down the knife into the warm flesh, to bring down the axe on the living head, to cleave down between the seeing eyes, to shoot the gun that would drive death into the beating heart?Alan Paton
Quotes to Explore
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I want you to feel happy and enjoy the theatre of my life the way that I do. No matter what happens with my music and wherever I go - that heart of that glamorous girl in New York will never be gone.
Lady Gaga -
I love doing impressions of politicians because the task is always to imagine the private lives of these people whose job it is to project an image of staunch, unflinching leadership and grace, and that's just not how human beings, in their heart of hearts, work.
Kate McKinnon -
I'm a registered, vetted gun owner, but that's because I live way out in the country, like way out in the middle of nowhere.
Naomi Judd -
My heart reaches out to those whose loved ones were lost on MH17.
Najib Razak -
Death in its natural state can be very beautiful. When you think about a body that's died of natural causes - family taking care of it - all of that is very beautiful.
Caitlin Doughty -
What makes life worth living? Better surely, to yield to the stain of suicide blood in me and seek forgetfulness in the embrace of cold dark death.
Zane Grey
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Honor wears different coats to different eyes.
Barbara Tuchman -
Have an earnestness for death and you will have life.
Abu Bakr -
If I like something, I will pick it up from anywhere and wear it. I don't believe that only branded stuff looks good on you. If it doesn't look good in my eyes, I'll never wear it.
Kajol -
I still have not given up the idea of becoming a journalist, but at 17 I decided to follow my heart and stay in Los Angeles with my girlfriend as opposed to going to Johns Hopkins.
Mackenzie Astin -
People say, 'How does having kids change your writing? Do you see the world through their eyes?' No - you just become a faster songwriter... In the old days, you'd be like, 'Oh I'm gonna work on this song for a few days.'
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam -
Death and I are head to head in a total collision, pure and mutual distaste.
Harold Brodkey
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Freedom is not empowerment. Empowerment is what the Serbs have in Bosnia. Anybody can grab a gun and be empowered.
P. J. O'Rourke -
We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes.
Malcolm de Chazal -
There's stuff I don't like to rehearse, really emotional things, I don't like to rehearse. You just beat it to death.
Kat Dennings -
Pastoral ministry is about an ongoing confrontation with the god of this world, with blindness, hardness of heart, remaining sin.
C. J. Mahaney -
In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.
Damien Hirst -
To measure the man, measure his heart.
Malcolm Forbes
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It is very common for people to come up to the cast members and say, 'Our family is OK now because of 'Transparent.''
Jay Duplass -
Let's be very honest about what this is about. It's not about bashing Democrats, it's not about taxes, they have no idea what the Boston tea party was about, they don't know their history at all. This is about hating a black man in the White House. This is racism straight up.
Janeane Garofalo -
While rising delinquencies and foreclosures will continue to weigh heavily on the housing market this year, it will not cripple the U.S.
Ben Bernanke -
The existence of forgetting has never been proved: We only know that some things don't come to mind when we want them.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another? What broke when he could bring himself to thrust down the knife into the warm flesh, to bring down the axe on the living head, to cleave down between the seeing eyes, to shoot the gun that would drive death into the beating heart?
Alan Paton