Tears Quotes
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She is a brittle, relentless manipulator with few stable core values who shuffles through useful personalities like a card shark ('Cue the tears!'). Forget all her little gold crosses: Hillary's real god is political expediency. Do Americans truly want this hard-bitten Machiavellian back in the White House? Day one will just be more of the same.
Camille Paglia
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When I have had enough of tears and love, I turn to some poet, and set out again for a new world.
Xavier de Maistre
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It's been a while since I checked in with Malcolm Gladwell's 'Revisionist History' podcast. The episode 'The King of Tears' suggests the author is raising the bar. His argument is that country music is the genre that makes us cry because, unlike rock, it's not afraid of specifics.
David Hepworth
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I knew I had a remarkable voice, but I was embarrassed because it was so high. But when I sang at my bar mitzvah, the rabbi was in tears. He said to my parents, 'He must become a cantor in the synagogue,' but my mother said, 'No, he's going to be a concert pianist.'
Neil Sedaka
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A game one of my sisters will play with me in my first year of being alive is called Good Baby, Bad Baby. This consists of being told I am a good baby until I smile and laugh, then being told I am a bad baby until I burst into tears. This training will stand me in good stead all through my life.
Ali Smith
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Grief embraced him and welcomed him back, showering tears upon his arrival.
Faraaz Kazi
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First deal with your own tears; tomorrow do something about acid rain.
Betty Jane Wylie
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Tears are not arguments.
Machado de Assis
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We have come over a way that with tears has been watered,We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered.
James Weldon Johnson
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You have a lot of ups and downs in coaching, especially, but I can't remember any bad times at this point. I mean, they're all good. A lot of tears when you lose, a lot of down times, but I can't remember any of them. They're all positive now. Even the bad times were good.
Don Nelson
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The liquid drops of tears that you have shed
Shall come again, transform'd to orient pearl,
Advantaging their loan with interest
Of ten times double gain of happiness.
William Shakespeare
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If you say, 'I listen to pop,' you picture this kind of perfect, colorful, polished song. I want to have that, but when you open it, you see this gritty dark - kind of like dancing your tears away. Disguise the sadness in a pop beat.
Tove Lo
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Jake was close to tears. In that moment he saw the world in its true light, as a place where nothing had ever been any good and nothing of significance done: no art worth a second look, no philosophy of the slightest appositeness, no law but served the state, no history that gave an inkling of how it had been and what had happened. And no love, only egotism, infatuation and lust.
Kingsley Amis
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A couple of girls I've signed autographs for have just cried or broken out into tears.
Chaske Spencer
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From the Sun I learned this: when he goes down, overrich; he pours gold into the sea out of inexhaustible riches, so that even the poorest fisherman still rows with golden oars. For this I once saw and I did not tire of my tears as I watched it.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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When we come upon beautiful things they act like small tears in the surface of the world that pull us through to some vaster space.
Elaine Scarry
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Yiddish, the language which will ever bear witness to the violence and murder inflicted on us, bear the marks of our expulsions from land to land, the language which absorbed the wails of the fathers, the laments of the generations, the poison and bitterness of history, the language whose precious jewels are the undried, uncongealed Jewish tears.
I. L. Peretz
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Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.
Christian Nestell Bovee
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When someone would come up to me in the street, I would either run away or burst into tears. I didn't know what to do. I don't think you're ever prepared for this.
Marion Cotillard
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There are in woman's eyes two sorts of tears,--the one of grief, the other of deceit.
Pythagoras
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If a man, for private profit, tears at the public news, does so with the impatience of one who thinks he actually owns the news you get, it is against the national interest.
Jimmy Breslin
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I do have body-image issues, just like everyone else. I mean, I wish I had bigger boobs. And I hate my butt. I want an onion butt - you know, a butt that'll bring tears to your eyes?
Leslie Bibb
