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“One has the impression that something is stirring inside [photographs] - it is as if one can hear little cries of despair, gémissements de désespoir... as if the photographs themselves had a memory and were remembering us and how we, the surviving, and those who preceded us, once were.”

Ifs Littles Remember Memories Cry Despair Photograph Impression Surviving Stirring

Author:W. G. Sebald

“I want to leave the world as I entered it: naked and crying in a room full of strangers.”

World Want Rooms Cry Stranger Naked

Author:Dana Gould

“Approached literally, there's but a hair's difference between You'd better not pout, you'd better not cry, and Don't scream.”

Differences Cry Hair Scream

Author:Dana Gould

“My dad was one of those dads that would make me stop crying by threatening to beat me.”

Cry Dad Beats My Dad Threatening

Author:Felipe Esparza

“Just a tip if you have a big event to go to or an important meeting, if you cry enough your face swells up giving you a temporary lift.”

Ifs Giving Important Enough Bigs Faces Events Cry Meetings Lifts Temporary Your Face Big Events

Author:Bonnie McFarlane

“I had serious performance stage fright. I kept my singing to the confines of my shower and car, while doing the dishes, and in my basement, but I would burst out crying if anyone asked me to sing.”

Ifs Stage Car Cry Serious Singing Performances Dishes Showers Basements Fright Stage Fright

Author:Michelle Chamuel

“I have seen many things in my life, many things in war and I have cried may times in my life. But when the runner carries the flame into the stadium, and the birds are freed and all the flags in the world are flying, I cry. I must cry.”

World May War Cry Bird Flying Flames Carrie Flags Cried Runners Stadiums

Author:Jules Ladoumegue

“Pressing the shutter has remained a moment of joyful recognition, comparable to the delight of a child balancing on tiptoe and suddenly, with a small cry of delight, stretching out a hand toward a desired object.”

Children Moments Hands Cry Objects Delight Recognition Joyful Stretching Shutters Tiptoes

Author:Inge Morath

“So forgive me, love, if I cry in your shower. So forgive me, love, for the salt in your bed. So forgive me, love, if I cry all afternoon.”

Ifs Cry Bed Forgiving Afternoon Salt Showers Forgive Me

Author:Alanis Morissette

“I commend you, however, for passing the time in as merry a manner as you possibly could; it is assuredly better to go laughing than crying thro' the rough journey of life.”

Laughing Journey Cry Passing Passings Rough Merry Life Journey

Book:The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources, 1745-1799

Source: The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources, 1745-1799

“When the church finds its members falling into gross and scandalous sins, then it is time for the church to awake and cry to God for a Revival of Religion.”

Fall Church Sin Cry Members Awake Gross Revival Scandalous

Book:Lectures on Revivals of Religion

Source: Lectures on Revivals of Religion

“We all go about longing for love: it is the first need of our natures, the loudest cry of our hearts.”

Needs Firsts Heart Cry Longing

Book:The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion

Source: The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion

“Whatever the label on the parties, or the war cries issuing from the demagogues who lead them, the practical choice is between the plutocracy on the one side and a rabble of preposterous impossibilists on the other.”

War Choices Sides Party Cry Practicals Labels Plutocracy War Cry

Book:Mencken Chrestomathy

Source: Mencken Chrestomathy

“One time I was doing a speech to a group of kids, and just before I get there, I see this little kid crying. I found out they just lost a game, and he was the losing pitcher. I went over there, put my arm around him, and said, 'What are you crying for? When major league players lose, they don't cry.'”

Littles Said Kids Found Games Lost Loses Player Groups Cry Arms Speech Majors Losing League One Time Little Kid Pitcher Major League

Author:Tommy Lasorda

“My mind's cries tell me that everything on earth is tragic. My heart's smiles tell me that everything on earth is magic.”

Mind Heart Earth Magic Cry My Heart Tragic

Author:Sri Chinmoy

“My mother told me, 'Son, nobody else but God knows.' And that's what I'm about - reaching out to the people, crying with them, giving them hope. Visiting the hospital, visiting the kids with cancer, visiting the adults, and stuff like that. That's what I do.”

People Knows Giving Kids Mother Stuff Cry Son Adults Cancer Reaching Hospitals Reach Out God Knows Visiting

Author:Mr. T

“If we are to access the resources of life, we must listen with our common heart to the cries of the world.”

Ifs World Heart Common Cry Resources Access

Author:Mark Nepo

“I get homesick a lot. That can make me so emotional that I sometimes feel like crying- but never in front of anyone. No way!”

Way Feels Sometimes Fronts Cry Emotional Homesick

Author:Nick Carter

“You know what else that settles then tonight. This hue and cry and controversy that has been spawned by the devil to try and bring dissention within the body of Christ that we are gods. I am a little god.”

Knows Trying Littles Has Beens Body Christ Cry Devil Settling Tonight Controversy Hue Body Of Christ

Author:Paul Crouch

“My parents were in the studio when we cut 'Let Me Try' and every time I sang it they started crying, ... I finally had to ask them to leave because I couldn't sing it while they were crying.”

Trying Asks Parent Cutting Cry Let Me Studios

Author:Hope Partlow

“The foolish took their lamps, but took no oil (pursued ministry as their priority over getting oil). The wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps (pursued oil as their priority before ministry). At the dark midnight hour of history, the Spirit will raise up forerunners who cry out that Jesus is coming as a Bridegroom God and that we must go out to meet Him (make the necessary effort to encounter Him). They all slept which speaks of living in context to the natural processes of life.”

Spirit Jesus Speak Process Hours Natural Dark Effort Wise Cry Raises Oil Foolish Priorities Encounters Ministry Midnight Lamps Vessel Pursued Raise Up Forerunners Bridegroom Process Of Life

Author:Mike Bickle

“I own records that have the power to make me cry. Records to be by or with - truly precious possessions. It is the ambition of the Midnight Runners to make records of this value.”

Values Records Cry Ambition Possession Runners Midnight Precious Possessions

Author:Kevin Rowland

“Holy men of old were moved upon by the Holy Spirit and the revelation given to them is God's Word in the Holy Scriptures. Is God speaking any less today through holy men called of God to bring a message through revelation to this generation? ... We wave our Bibles and cry, 'This is the Word of' God.' Indeed it is God's Word, but the Holy Spirit yet brings revelation to this generation today that is no less God's Word... The prophet is not a method that God uses; but in fact is the only method he uses to speak to this generation.”

“I was really crying the morning after the indication. However I am over that now. Nevertheless, I am proud for it to be in the Rock and Roll hall of fame. But I've got two copies of the guitar now, to remind of the original Teardrop.”

Two Morning Rocks Cry Proud Fame Originals Guitar Copies Halls Nevertheless Rock And Roll Indication Hall Of Fame Morning After Teardrop Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame

Author:Dave Wakeling

“A lot of blues music seems like it's moving away from God, or the center, and Gospel music is moving towards it. It's embracing a higher reality. When you look a little closer, the way that I define it or explain it, is that the blues is the naked cry of the human heart, apart from God. People are searching for union with God. They're searching to be home. There's something in people that seeks this union with their creator. Why am I here? Where am I going? What's it all about? Who am I? All this kind of stuff.”

People Way Humans Looks Heart Kind Littles Home Reality Seems Moving Stuff Cry Higher Music Is Unions Creator Naked Human Heart Moving Away Blues Music Gospel Music

Author:Dion DiMucci

“One of the hardest things in the world is to perform on record and get someone to enjoy and feel what you're doing. It's unlike, like TV you can, you can fake it with the face and the crying and the bits. Recording is completely different.”

World Feels Different Faces Bits Enjoy Records Cry Tvs Hardest Fake Hardest Thing

Author:Ben E. King

“The areas in which I teach are working-class history and African-American Studies and at its best the critical study of whiteness often grows out of those areas. The critical examination of whiteness, academic and not, simply involves the effort to break through the illusion that whiteness is natural, biological, normal, and not crying out for explanation.”

Grows Natural Effort Class Teach Break Study Cry Normal Illusion Areas Critical African American Explanation Academic Working Class Examination Break Through Whiteness

Author:David Roediger

“I started making movies in my late 20s, that time in an artist's career that often sees artists just imitating things that he or she loves. I just wanted to be great like L'Age d'Or vintage Buñuel. I wanted to be Busby Berkeley, for crying out loud! I wanted to have chorus girls stomping their heels in my casting office. I wanted to be Erich Von Stroheim monogramming underwear for extras. So I started off my career doing that, and that was fun, but I realised I wasn't very good at it.”

Age Wanted Artist Girl Fun Careers Cry Office Late Very Good Loud Extras Heels Casting Realised Underwear Chorus Vintage Imitating Berkeley Stomping

Author:Guy Maddin

“If I feel like crying, I'll just cry in a dream. Something I really try not to do in my waking hours. I like good melodrama because it's just an undumping of all these compulsions we feel that we work so hard to master during our waking hours. No wonder we crash to sleep in bed at night. We have to, otherwise we'd just spend our waking hours shredding the feelings from everybody else.”

Ifs Feels Trying Hard Feelings Dream Night Hours Sleep Wonder Cry Masters Bed Waking Crash Compulsion Melodrama Shredding

Author:Guy Maddin

“There's nothing that makes me laugh more than being in the situation where you're not supposed to laugh. Funerals. People crying. Breaking down. Telling you their life. I'm the worst. I'm the worst at that.”

People Situation Laughing Worst Cry Funeral Breaking Down Make Me Laugh

Author:Tom Waits

“I love romantic comedies. I love romantic movies. I'm kind of a sucker for them, and, sort of end up crying at the end of them all, like a child.”

Kind Children Ends Comedy Cry Romantic Love Sucker

Author:Elijah Wood

“That softness around your eyes, a softness in your face. Almost the way you feel when you’re about to start crying. That, to me, is love. It can be romantic love, it can be friendship love, it can be family love, it can be love for a chipmunk. It can be love for anything.”

Way Feels Eye Faces Cry Your Face Romantic Love Family Love Friendship Love Softness Chipmunks

Author:Moby

“My mother went to demonstrations. I remember her going to a big demonstration for Earl Brower and she came home crying and said the Communists were very mean and booed their people. I remember feeling sad at her feeling sad.”

People Mean Said Feelings Home Bigs Remember Mother Cry Communist Demonstration Very Mean Feeling Sad

Author:Grace Paley

“I could be really sad and I start to cry; I feel alive then. I could be at a concert and I throw my hands up in the air and I feel elation; I feel alive then.”

Feels Hands Alive Air Cry Concerts Really Sad Hands Up Elation Up In The Air

Author:Michael Franti

“When you make a film, you're creating the illusion of a natural experience. But everything is created on purpose. If I want you to be scared, I'm trying to scare you. If I want you to cry, I'm trying to make you sad. If I want you to laugh, I'm trying make you laugh. So, how I get you there is what makes it interesting, because I also want it to feel seamless, and not forced. That kind of constant experimentation is just fun to explore, and I love it.”

Ifs Want Feels Trying Kind Film Purpose Fun Natural Interesting Laughing Cry Creating Illusion Constant Scared Scare I Want You Experimentation Make You Laugh Seamless

Author:Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs

“It's easier to keep your stuff then it is to expose it, because some people don't get it. At the cross, at the feet of Jesus, there were some people who said, "Good! I'm glad that you're dead." Then there were some that were crying and saying, "Why are you doing this to this innocent man?" It is not easy to do.”

People Men Said Jesus Easy Stuff Feet Cry Easier Crosses Glad Innocent Innocent Man

Author:Fred Hammond

“I love truthful songs that tell a story and talk about people and their lives. If a song calls for a tear, then we will cry. If a song calls for a smile, then we will laugh. That is what I like to do.”

People Ifs Stories Song Laughing Cry Tears Truthful Truth Love

Author:Gene Watson

“It's better to make people laugh than cry.”

People Laughing Cry Making People Laugh

Author:Ronnie Barker

“It only takes about 50 contact hours to transmit basic literacy and math skills well enough that kids can be self-teachers from then on. The cry for 'basic skills' practice is a smokescreen behind which schools pre-empt the time of children for twelve years and teach them the six lessons I've just taught you.”

Years Wells Children Self Enough Kids School Hours Behinds Teach Practice Teacher Cry Taught Lessons Skills Six Math Contact Twelve Literacy Transmit Math Skills

Author:John Taylor Gatto

“Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!”

Ifs Cry Baby Useless Savagery Cry Baby

Book:Lord of the Flies

Source: Lord of the Flies

“I worked for 20 directors as a production designer, most male. I was on the set to witness firsthand a range of sometimes atrocious emotions - well-documented firings, yellings, fights between directors and actors, hookers, abusive things, budget overages, lack of preparation. A man gets a standing ovation for crying because he's so sensitive, but a woman is shamed.”

Men Wells Sometimes Fighting Actors Emotion Cry Directors Standing Males Productions Witness Preparation Range Budgets Sensitive Designer Yelling Abusive Firing Ovation

Author:Catherine Hardwicke

“If I could have three wishes, one would be to take an '88 and shove that barrel up Hitler's ass so that cocksucker can cry like the little god-damned girl he is. And hell, after that, I wouldn't need two more wishes.”

Ifs Needs Littles Two Would Be Girl Three Wish Hell Cry Ass If I Could Barrels Three Wishes

Author:George S. Patton

“Humanism is not wrong in its cry for sociological healing, but humanism is not producing it.”

Healing Cry Humanism Sociological

Book:The Complete Works of Francis A. Schaeffer: A Christian view of the west

Source: The Complete Works of Francis A. Schaeffer: A Christian view of the west

“Crying out to the lord is the only eternal reality within this temporary world.”

World Reality Lord Cry Eternal Temporary

Author:Radhanath Swami

“When I finished [writing it], I was crying. I knew at long last, after ten years of trying, I had written something good.”

Writing Trying Years Long Lasts Written Cry Ten Finished

Author:Ray Bradbury

“Crying is one of the highest devotional songs. One who knows crying, knows spiritual practice”

Knows Spiritual Song Practice Cry Highest Yoga Spiritual Practice Devotional Yoga Inspiration Yoga Practice Inspirational Yoga

Author:Kripalvananda

“Do not keep crying when your love has been gone. You only need Smile because he had been given you the opportunity to meet someone who is better.”

Needs Has Beens Opportunity Given Gone Cry Smile Because

Author:Khalil Gibran

“[T]here's a good reason to stay pessimistic about deficits as far as the eye can see. It's called the 'news' media. Legislators who want to get re-elected will clearly want to avoid any spending decision that will create bad national publicity, and our news media, the manufacturers of bad national publicity, will send crying victims down the assembly line at the slightest thought of a social spending cut or freeze. Exhibit A is Sen. Jim Bunning.”

“We need less travelling by jet plaes from congress to congress... but more kneeling and praying and pleading to God to have mercy on us, more crying to God to arise and scatter his enemies and make himself known.”

Needs Known Enemy Cry Praying Mercy Congress Arise Jet Pleading Kneeling

Author:Martyn Lloyd-Jones

“The boarded-up homes, the decaying storefronts, the aging church rolls, kids from unknown families who swaggered down the streets - loud congregations of teenage boys, teenage girls feeding potato chips to crying toddlers, the discarded wrappers tumbling down the block - all of it whispered painful truths.”

Source: Dreams From My Father