Ed Wood Quotes
They think virtues are man-made, only exist because they exist, but if no human had ever existed, The Virtues would persist for they hold their being from the very Presence of the Adversary Himself.
We’ve spent centuries moving them away from that word virtue and especially The Virtues and that’s precisely how we did it —by making it lower case.
Virtue became less the harsh and martial self-sacrifice of antiquity and more the modern willingness to get along with others for the sake of peace and prosperity.
Shame was one of those things that had to be excised like a cancer, but it was a hard thing to remove when it was wrapped around your heart.
My mother describes me as 'a real hero . . . just like your grandfather'. But I do not know what to do with this accolade for her son, other than let her have moment, or it helps her back here.
Once upon a time, you dragged a part of me into the world of the dead, and now Naoko has dragged another pat of me into that world.
Too many memories of her were crammed inside of me, and as soon as one of them found the slightest opening, the rest would force their way out in an endless stream, an unstoppable flood.
I had thought about it so often - too often, to the point where it had distorted my sense of time.
You want to know why you felt that way about me even though you didn't love me.
There was much about him that was fine and beautiful, but he could never find the confidence he needed.
I went on loving him just the same, and I could never be interested in anyone else.
No, it's not sick. I wish I could be the one to hold you, though, I said. So hold me. Now. Right here.
It's hard not being able to see you, but my life in Tokyo would be a lot worse if it weren't for you.
If you think about it, an unfair society that makes it possible for you to exploit your abilities to the limit.
Maybe so, but I'm not just looking up at the sky and waiting for the fruit to drop. In my own way, I'm working hard. I'm working ten times harder than you are.
In any case, though, I believe that I have not been fair to you and that, as a result, I must have led you around in circles and hurt you deeply.
It was that kind of kiss. But as with all kisses, it was not without a certain element of danger
Because sometimes I have a need for human warmth, I answered honestly. Sometimes, if I can't feel something like the warmth of a woman's skin, I get so lonely I can't stand it.
I could never tell what was going on inside the pretty heads of the girls that Naoko brought along, and they probably couldn't understand me, either.
I loved Midori. And I had probably known as much for a while. I had just been avoiding the conclusion for a very long time.
I still loved Naoko. Bent and twisted as that love might be, I did love her. Somewhere inside me, there was still preserved a broad, open space, untouched, for Naoko and no one else.
I have always loved Naoko, and I still loved her. But there is a decisive finality to what exists between Midori and me.
Waiting for your answer is one of the most painful things I have ever been through. At least let me know whether or not I hurt you
No truth can cure the sorrow we feel from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, no kindness can cure that sorrow.
If there is one thing I have learned, from loving Jessamine and even from the evil tasks you have made me do, it is that all forms of life are worthy of compassion.
Leadership is the influence of a person(s) on another person(s) which guides their efforts in a specific direction, with more purpose, clarity, and unity than they would have held on their own.
When you fall in love, the natural thing to do is give yourself to it. That's what I think. It's just a form of sincerity.
Stress level: extreme. It's like she was a jar with the lid screwed on too tight, and inside the jar were pickles, angry pickles, and they were fermenting, and about to explode.
They forget that for a Creator to create, He must be greater than His creation, thus He must be by definition not less than emotional.
(...)no one can take the place of a perfect mother who gives you the world as you know it and makes you believe that it is yours to take.
Truth, with a capital T, was swapped for Fact with a capital F, then both lower-cased —facts the new trues.
Remember, this type doesn’t really believe He’ll forgive them, by repenting they are trying to earn what they do not think, in any case, He will pay.
Sqwaak!" from Fletcher, the environmental crime fighting parrot in The Big Belch graphic novel by Kay Wood.
Civilizations die from philosophical calm irony and the sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery.
Education today more than ever before must see clearly the dual objectives: education for living and educating for making a living.
When a man wantonly destroys a work of man we call him a vandal when a man destroys one of the works of God we call him a sportsman.
Though many have tried no one has ever yet explained away the decisive fact that science which can do so much cannot decide what it ought to do.
Security depends not so much upon how much you have as upon how much you can do without.
Oh no. I split my time between Paris and New York. They're the only places to really live.
Sometimes, you can hold a grudge for so long you forget why you were holding onto it. And before you know it, half a lifetime has gone by and all you’ve got is a empty fist and a lot of regret.
I definitely don't look my age. So I actively look for roles that will help people change their perception of me.
He who leaves nothing to chance will do few things poorly, but he will do few things.