And Quotes

The tackles are coming in thick and thin now.

My own approach has always been to push intense emotions down and attempt to deal with them later.

I have a nightmare about Tony [Blair] and Gordon [Brown] killing each other. Not every month, but now and then. I also have a recurring dream about losing.

I love and respect women. I work mostly with women.

At times I feel myself overtaken by an immense tenderness for these people around me who live in the same century.

When love ceases to be tragic it is something else and the individual again throws himself in search of tragedy.

Betrayal answers betrayal, the mask of love is answered by the disappearance of love.

I have not stopped loving that which is sacred in this world.

For me, physical love has always been bound to an irresistible feeling of innocence and joy. Thus, I cannot love in tears but in exaltation.

The end of their passion consists of loving uselessly at the moment when it is pointless.

Every day, man is making bigger and better fool-proof things, and every day, nature is making bigger and better fools. So far, I think nature is winning.

Money does not pay for anything, never has, never will. It is an economic axiom as old as the hills that goods and services can be paid for only with goods and services.

Usually, it is not my habit to address religious issues on the floor. I strongly believe in a person's right to religious freedom, as well as the separation of church and state.

I was too young to live on campus. I just went back and forth on the bus. Eventually I got my own car and thought I was Mr. Man, so I started hot wheelin' it.

All history consists of successive excursions from a single starting-point, to which man returns again and again to organize yet another search for a durable scale of values.

In Bosnian, there's no distinction in literature between fiction and nonfiction; there's no word describing that.

I try to make that tension almost stupidly overt in my projects, almost ridiculously so. I keep coming back to the same obvious points again and again.

Jose understands winning and losing are twins in a way. When you win you don't gloat and when you lose you don't go bananas.

A poem's life and death dependeth still Not on the poet's wits, but reader's will.

Thus God and nature linked the gen'ral frame, And bade self-love and social be the same.

It is the sternest philosophy, but on the whole the truest, that, in the wide arena of the world, failure and success are not accidents, as we so frequently suppose, but the strictest justice.

And then, what is grace? Grace is love. But grace is not love simply, and purely, and alone. Grace and love are, in their innermost essence, one and the same thing.

In him I saw my furture In him I saw my friend In him I saw my destiny Both my beginning and end

If I want my daughter to try something, I eat it in front of her repeatedly without forcing the issue and, with some trial and error, the world is our oyster!

If only' repeated again and again in her head like a battering ram...'if only' could break your heart.

Maurice has been a revelation, on and off the field.

Starting out, I remember being on the same bill with other bands, and I always thought they were so much better because they were rehearsed and had all their moves down and they sounded really tight.

Greece is a pillar of peace and security in a region where stabilization is on the growth.

Who trusted God was love indeed And love Creation's final law Though Nature, red in tooth and claw With ravine, shrieked against his creed.

God gives us love. Something to love He lends us; but when love is grown To ripeness, that on which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone.

It is impossible to meditate on time and the mystery of nature without an overwhelming emotion at the limitations of human intelligence.

Our way is where God knows And Love knows where: We are in Love's hand to-day.

Bush has said something new. He said, "If I will be president again, I will be a man of peace and serenity." May the Lord curse the liars, wherever they may be.

The universe holds enough happiness and success for everyone.

I go into work and get my hair and makeup done, go into wardrobe. I have to do three hours of school a day.

If you get earaches, I'd turn my volume down a notch or two for you. Cause I will do anything for you.

He lies right at you, you know you hate this game. He slaps you once in a while and you live and love in pain.

They make other nations seem pale and flighty, But they do think England is God almighty, And you must remind them now and then That other countries breed other men.

Seeing you lights up my day, to hear your voice makes me smile all cheesy, to see you smile makes my heart all warm and fuzzy, when you say I love you makes my body weak.

My mother, Abra, had taught me that all people are made from the same dust. When our days here are gone, all men and women enter the same garden.

Maybe some love was guaranteed. Maybe it fit inside you and around you like skin and bones.

That is the joy of reading fiction: when all is said and done, the novel belongs to the reader and his or her imagination.

One of my favorites is "Time and Again" by Jack Finney. It takes place in Manhattan and goes back and forth between 1882 and the 1950s. It's really a cult book.

Without explaining why, and, most of all, without naming other authors or books, I can only say my novels are influenced by love and death.

The damage can fester under layers of time and change, and an ignorant, thoughtless remark can easily reopen the wound.

I'm very blessed to have a phenomenal husband, son, and beautiful family and friends around me.

And then like thunder broke the frost, The chill wall fell, and morrowless Immortal maid and man embraced, Their light and shadow mingling.

Being surrounded by nature and animals always kept me grounded and happy.

Other wars end eventually in victory, defeat or exhaustion, but the war between men and women goes on forever.

Seeking the kingdom of God leads to joy and happiness.