Age Quotes - Page 128

There's a dishonest tyranny in the liberal/progressive/socialist agenda that comes down and says 'we are here because we care about you; we want what's best for you'. But really what they want is the control of your life.

The Gospel is not a mere message of deliverance, but a canon of conduct; it is not a theology to be accepted, but it is ethics to be lived. It is not to be believed only, but it is to be taken into life as a guide.

If you want to read about love and marriage, you've got to buy two separate books.

As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.

The words are purposes./The words are maps./I came to see the damage that was done/and the treasures that prevail.

They don't gotta burn the books they just remove 'em.

The Alexander Technique has helped me to undo knots, unblock energy and deal with almost paralysing stage fright

English people don't have very good diction. In France you have to pronounce very particularly and clearly, and learning French at an early age helped me enormously.

Identify your problems but give your power and energy to solutions

If I were a dictator I should make it compulsory for every member of the population between the ages of four and eighty to listen to Mozart for at least a quarter of an hour daily for the coming five years.

Well, I really want to encourage a kind of fantasy, a kind of magic. I love the term magic realism, whoever invented it – I do actually like it because it says certain things. It's about expanding how you see the world. I think we live in an age where we're just hammered, hammered to think this is what the world is. Television's saying, everything's saying 'That's the world.' And it's not the world. The world is a million possible things.

There is no liberation to compare with freeing oneself from the illusions and delusions of the age in which one lives.

I am gay. I am a Jew. My mother lost over a dozen of her family to Hitler's anti-Semitism. Every time in Russia (and it is constantly) a gay teenager is forced into suicide, a lesbian 'correctively' raped, gay men and women beaten to death by neo-Nazi thugs while the Russian police stand idly by, the world is diminished and I for one, weep anew at seeing history repeat itself.

We are free to choose our actions, . . . but we are not free to choose the consequences of these actions.

...Every moment is the right moment.

It's one of the great tragedies of our contemporary life in America, that families fall apart. Almost everybody has that in common.

The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead.

In deep pain, people don't need logic, advice, encouragement, or even Scripture. They just need you to show up and shut up.

It takes strength and courage to admit the truth.

Actions themselves form no bondage. Bondage is only the false belief,"I am the do-er."

In the silence of the Cross, the uproar of weapons ceases and the language of reconciliation, forgiveness, dialogue and peace is spoken.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

One of the poets, whose name I cannot recall, has a passage, which I am unable at the moment to remember, in one of his works, which for the time being has slipped my mind, which hits off admirably this age-old situation.

It is just the little touches after the average man would quit that make the master's fame.

I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.