#tears

The busy have no time for tears. ↗

— Lord Byron

#tears #time

If a man, for private profit, tears at the public news, does so with the impatience of one who thinks he actually owns the news you get, it is against the national interest. ↗

— Jimmy Breslin

#against #does #get #impatience #interest

Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death. ↗

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#better #choose #death #god #i

Why not provoke some thought and get people talking about things? I like characters that are flawed because we all are. When people break up in a script, you think, Oh, right, there must be tears shed here. But maybe the fact of the matter is that they're both laughing. ↗

— Michael Fassbender

#because #both #break #break up #characters

I try to bring the audience's own drama - tears and laughter they know about - to them. ↗

— Judy Garland

#audience #bring #drama #i #know

When Alexander of Macedon was 33, he cried salt tears because there were no more worlds to conquer. Eric Bristow is only 27. ↗

— Sid Waddell

#because #conquer #cried #eric #more

And the smile that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears. ↗

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#earth #praises #shines #tears #through

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away. ↗

— Kim Wilde

#i #love #tears #time #turn

They're not willing to admit that I've also shed blood and tears and often paid dearly for my success. This makes me feel extremely sad. ↗

— Zhang Ziyi

#also #blood #dearly #extremely #feel

What is it, she asks me, why do people cry? Why do we cry when we're happy and when we're sad or hurt? I tell her what I know or think I know: that the body does not distinguish between emotional and physical pain; the muscles around the lachrymal glands receive a message from the brain, then tighten and squeeze out tears. Tears contain high levels of the hormone ACTH and prolactin, endorphins (which we know are mood-altering and pain-killing), as well as thirty times more manganese than is found in blood, suggesting that human tears can concentrate and remove harmful substances from the body. Prolactin in humans controls fluid balance; by the age of eighteen women have 60 percent more prolactin than men, which may explain why women seem to cry more often. I tell her that sadness--like happiness--is an intense feeling of being alive, of having essence. I try to explain to her my own nonscientific theory: that crying is about weight or heft, that we cry when our bodies feel too light or too heavy to bear or hold on to language. ↗

— Liza Wieland

#tears #age