Those Quotes

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.

The fact is there is forgiveness for those who seek God. And I believe in the power of redemption.

Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.

Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!

I love the fact that there are also women out there that don't have a choice and they must go to work and they still have to raise the kids. Thank goodness that we value those people too.

I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies - thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us.

Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.

Unless there is meaningful change in Syria and an end to the crackdown, President Assad and those around him will find themselves isolated internationally and discredited within Syria.

I'm one of those people who thinks that changing one's hair is the only part of the body that you can change at will.

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.

Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.

Those who speak ill of the spiritual life, although they come and go by day, are like the smith's bellows: they take breath but are not alive.

The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.

A lot of the music that you listen to now is because of the things that the Meters did, the Neville Brothers did, and they're there, the guys who invented those beats that the guys sample today. Such an enormous opportunity.

Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.

No, only disappointment in myself on those occasions I didn't manage to rise to the occasion as I felt I should've done. I can always see how to do it, and then the challenge is, Can I manage that each and every day?

There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.

A pleasant voice, which has to include clear enunciation, is not only attractive to those who hear it... its appeal is permanent.

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.

I believe that my children, who are young, will look back on the early years of the 21st century in rather the same way I look back on the middle of the 20th: as a time when seemingly respectable people supported discrimination against Americans simply because those Americans were different from themselves.

Hush! Check those words. Do not cure ill with ill and make your pain still heavier than it is.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

One in six people suffer depression or a chronic anxiety disorder. These are not the worried well but those in severe mental pain with conditions crippling enough to prevent them living normal lives.

You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.

I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.

As for goals, I don't set myself those anymore. I'm not one of these 'I must have achieved this and that by next year' kind of writers. I take things as they come and find that patience and persistence tend to win out in the end.

The little things, I can obey. But the big things - how we think, what we value - those you must choose yourself. You can't let anyone - or any society - determine those for you.

I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.

Obviously a Conservative government will always leave taxes lower than they have been under Labour. Those things go with the territory of the Conservative Party.