Into Quotes

It's no secret that in New York during the last 30 years there has been a tragic exodus from the churches into materialism, secularism and humanism.

Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.

We campaigned on the fact that we were going to have to take difficult decisions because of the state of the public finances. When we got into government we discovered that actually the public finances were in an even worse state than we thought.

I'll keep evolving and put that into my songs.

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.

Recast your current problems into proactive goals.

I have seen what a laugh can do. It can transform almost unbearable tears into something bearable, even hopeful.

If I cry, it's because I'm very angry and I can't do anything about it because I've run into a dead end. That's when the tears would come down.

Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.

You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent.

Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.

Feminism is dated? Yes, for privileged women like my daughter and all of us here today, but not for most of our sisters in the rest of the world who are still forced into premature marriage, prostitution, forced labor - they have children that they don't want or they cannot feed.

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Lately, I'm spending more and more time working with non-rock musicians and leaving the mainstream - almost dissolving into another world, musically.

'Bombing Afghanistan back into the Stone Age' was quite a favourite headline for some wobbly liberals. The slogan does all the work. But an instant's thought shows that Afghanistan is being, if anything, bombed out of the Stone Age.

Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not... We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.

I think the Enlightenment is leading us into a dark hole, really.

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.

While fools shun one set of faults they run into the opposite one.

A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That's where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It's having backbone.

I like to think of sales as the ability to gracefully persuade, not manipulate, a person or persons into a win-win situation.

An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.

When you first come into Parliament, it's a daunting place because you feel you've so much to learn. Once you've been re-elected, you feel much more confident. It just gives you a bit of a boost.

I was taught from a young age that I had to serve, so that turned into me thinking I had to save the planet.

Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.

Sporadic thoughts will pop into my head and I'll have to go write something down, and the next thing you know I've written a whole song in an hour.

All diseases run into one, old age.

You cannot make a sinner into a saint by killing him. He who does not live as a saint here will never live as a saint hereafter.

This life is like a swimming pool. You dive into the water, but you can't see how deep it is.