#said

We know darned well that in Bosnia, certain governments and the secretary had said tens of thousands are needed in Srebrenica and those people were never provided. ↗

— Alex Morrison

#certain #darned #governments #had #know

There has to reach a point where you've said enough. ↗

— Steven Patrick Morrissey

#point #reach #said #where #you

You don't love him. You only love that he loves you. ↗

— Tiffany Reisz

#well-said #love

Man’s guilt in history and in the tides of his own blood has been complicated by technology, the daily seeping falsehearted death. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#existence #inevitable-progress #inverse-tower-of-babel #death

Mary, my little girl, was confirmed in a Buddhist temple. She saw the Life write up on Buddhism, with pictures of the ceremony, and she said she wanted to be confirmed there because she only liked Jesus as a kid. She was a little disappointed in him when he grew up. ↗

— Kenneth Rexroth

#buddhism #buddhist #ceremony #confirmed #disappointed

I had not particularly liked the way in which he wrote about literature in Beginnings, and I was always on my guard if not outright hostile when any tincture of 'deconstruction' or 'postmodernism' was applied to my beloved canon of English writing, but when Edward talked about English literature and quoted from it, he passed the test that I always privately apply: Do you truly love this subject and could you bear to live for one moment if it was obliterated? ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#edward-said #literary-criticism #literature #postmodernism #love

I remember seeing Bill Hurt in New York once. I talked to him on the phone around 1988 and that's about it. I was shooting in New York and somebody said Glenn Close came by the set. ↗

— Tom Berenger

#around #bill #came #close #glenn

It's said in Hollywood that you should always forgive your enemies - because you never know when you'll have to work with them. ↗

— Lana Turner

#always #because #forgive #hollywood #know

I don't know what I was trying to get out of a tenor - but it never really satisfied me until one day I picked up my alto and I said, "Where have you been?" and I said right here for now on! ↗

— Jerome Richardson

#been #day #get #here #i

Again, it may be said, that to love justice and equality the people need no great effort of virtue; it is sufficient that they love themselves. ↗

— Maximilien Robespierre

#effort #equality #great #justice #love