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“Usually I'm trying to get away from my discography. I don't think I could tear down everything I've done, the structures I've created - you know, like what Miles Davis did eight times in a row, which was destroy every kind of crutch or system he had for making music. That's very, very difficult. When I reflect on my catalog, I'm very proud of it, and I love it, but what I want to do now is completely different. When I don't do something different, I feel like I'm cheating - consciously or unconsciously stealing from myself.”

Thinking Trying Kind Different Done Difficult Tears Proud Stealing Cheating Get Away

Author:John Vanderslice

“I hate sentiment when it's inappropriate. I saw someone who went and saw an exhibition and came out in tears. If an exhibition drives you to tears you need to see a psychiatrist immediately. That's what I think.”

Thinking Hate Tears I Hate Sentiments Psychiatrist Inappropriate

Author:Pierre Berge

“I think that all journalists, specifically print journalists, have a responsibility to educate the public. When you handle a culture's intellectual property, like journalists do, you have a responsibility not to tear it down, but to raise it up. The depiction of rap and of hip-hop culture in the media is one that needs more of a responsible approach from journalists. We need more 30-year-old journalists. We need more journalists who have children, who have families and wives or husbands, those kinds of journalists. And then you'll get a different depiction of hip-hop and rap music.”

Thinking Kind Children Different Culture Responsibility Wife Tears Husband Intellectual Responsible Property Rap Journalist Print Educate Intellectual Property Rap Music

Author:KRS-One

“I think music moves me more than other people. I can hear a song and it can bring me to tears. It doesn't happen the whole time, but I find songwriting - songs - very, very moving. I always have and I don't think it's fading.”

People Thinking Moving Song Tears Songwriting

Author:Tom Odell

“New York is such a competitive place; it tears people apart. People come here and, if they can't make it in the first month, they get torn apart and they have to go back to where they came from. I don't think that's terribly healthy.”

People Ifs Thinking Firsts New York Tears Months Healthy Torn Torn Apart

Author:Moby

“I think you have to pay for love with bitter tears.”

Thinking Life Pay Tears Bitter Bitterness Keep Moving

Author:Edith Piaf

“D'ye think I don't know?" he asked softly. "It's me that has the easy part now. For if ye feel for me as I do for you-then I'm asking you to tear out your heart and live without it.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Feels Heart Easy Tears Asking

Book:Dragonfly In Amber: (Outlander 2)

Source: Dragonfly In Amber: (Outlander 2)

“I really don't know why it is that all of us are so committed to the sea, except I think it is because in addition to the fact that the sea changes and the light changes, and ships change, it is because we all came from the sea. And it is an interesting biological fact that all of us have, in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and, therefore, we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears. We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch it we are going back from whence we came.”

“Laughter isn't even the other side of tears. It is tears turned inside out. Truly the suffering is great, here on earth. We blunder along, shredded by our mistakes, bludgeoned by our faults. Not having a clue where the dark path leads us. But on the whole, we stumble along bravely, don't you think?”

Thinking Whole Earth Suffering Sides Dark Mistake Path Tears Laughter Faults Clue Blunders

Book:By the Light of My Father's Smile

Source: By the Light of My Father's Smile

“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.”

Ifs Thinking Men Doe Interest Tears News Profit Impatience National Interests

Author:Jimmy Breslin

“And truly it little matters what I say, this or that or any other thing. Saying is inventing. Wrong, very rightly wrong. You invent nothing, you think you are inventing, you think you are escaping, and all you do is stammer out your lesson, the remnants of a pensum one day got by heart and long forgotten, life without tears, as it is wept.”

Thinking Heart Littles Long Matter Tears Lessons One Day Forgotten Inventing Escaping Remnants

Book:Molloy

Source: Molloy

“So you think that money is the root of all evil? [...] Have you ever asked what is the root of money? Money is a tool of exchange, which can't exist unless there are goods produced and men able to produce them. Money is the material shape of the principle that men who wish to deal with one another must deal by trade and give value for value. Money is not the tool of the moochers, who claim your product by tears, or of the looters, who take it from you by force. Money is made possible only by the men who produce. Is this what you consider evil?”

Source: For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)

“Well, most women are full to the brim, that's all...We are, most of us, ready to explode, especially when our children are small and we are so weary with the demands for love and attention and the kind of service that makes you feel you should be wearing a uniform with "Mommy" embroidered over the left breast, over the heart...If a stranger had come up to me and said, "Do you want to talk about it? I have time to listen," I think I might have burst into tears at the relief of it.”

Ifs Thinking Want Feels Should Wells Heart Kind Children Said Might Left Attention Tears Ready Demand Our Children Come Up Stranger Relief Breasts Uniforms Weary

Author:Elizabeth Berg

“For the rest of my life I'll be thinking about that hamburger. I'll be sitting there at the counter, holding it in my hands with tears streaming down my cheeks. The waitress will be looking away because she doesn't like to see kids crying when they are eating hamburgers.”

Thinking Hands Kids Cry Tears Eating Sitting Cheeks Hamburgers Waitress Streaming Looking Away

Book:So The Wind Won't Blow It All Away

Source: So The Wind Won't Blow It All Away

“Lines I die but when the grave shall press The heart so long endeared to thee When earthy cares no more distress And earthy joys are nought to me. Weep not, but think that I have past Before thee o'er the sea of gloom. Have anchored safe and rest at last Where tears and mouring can not come. 'Tis I should weep to leave thee here On that dark ocean sailing drear With storms around and fears before And no kind light to point the shore. But long or short though life may be 'Tis nothing to eternity. We part below to meet on high Where blissful ages never die.”

Thinking Love Should Heart Kind May Long Light Care Age Lasts Past Joy Dies Lines Dark Sea Tears Safe Ocean Eternity Presses Storm Graves Thee Shore Distress Can Not Sailing Gloom

Author:Emily Bronte

“It was all so very businesslike that one watched it fascinated. It was pork-making by machinery, pork-making by applied mathematics. And yet somehow the most matter-of-fact person could not help thinking of the hogs; they were so innocent, they came so very trustingly; and they were so very human in their protests - and so perfectly within their rights! They had done nothing to deserve it; and it was adding insult to injury, as the thing was done here, swinging them up in this cold-blooded, impersonal way, without pretence at apology, without the homage of a tear.”

“Just deleting vandalism on the Chuck Norris page," Radar said. "For instance, while I do think that Chuck Norris specializes in the roundhouse kick, I don't think it's accurate to say, 'Chuck Norris's tears can cure cancer, but unfortunately he has never cried.”

Thinking Said Tears Pages Cancer Cures Instance Kicks Accurate Cried Chuck Radar Vandalism Deleting

Author:John Green

“Look at them. There are your true philosophers. I think that Mack and the boys know everything that has ever happened in the world and possibly everything that will happen. I think they survive in this particular world better than other people. In a time when people tear themselves to pieces with ambition and nervousness and covetousness, they are relaxed. All of our so-called successful men are sick men, with bad stomachs, and bad souls, but Mack and the boys are healthy and curiously clean. They can do what they want. They can satisfy their appetites without calling them something else.”

“Think how you love me,' she whispered. 'I don't ask you to love me always like this, but I ask you to remember.' You'll always be like this to me.' Oh no; but promise me you'll remember.' Her tears were falling. 'I'll be different, but somewhere lost inside me there'll always be the person I am tonight.”

Thinking Persons Different Remember Fall Asks Lost Tears Promise Tonight Remember You Remembers You Promise Me

Book:The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

“I was oppressed with a sense of vague discontent and dissatisfaction with my own life, which was passing so quickly and uninterestingly, and I kept thinking it would be a good thing if I could tear my heart out of my breast, that heart which had grown so weary of life.”

Ifs Thinking Heart Would Be My Own Tears My Heart Good Things Passing Passings If I Could Breasts Oppressed Weary Vague Discontent My Own Life Dissatisfaction

Book:Forty Stories

Source: Forty Stories

“Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depths of some devine despair Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes, In looking on the happy autumn fields, And thinking of the days that are no more.”

Thinking Knows Heart Mean Eye Fields Tears Despair Depth Autumn Idle Autumn Days

Author:Alfred Lord Tennyson

“That’s how a scary story works. It echoes some ancient fear. It re-creates some forgotten terror. Something we’d like to think we’ve grown beyond. But it can still scare us to tears. It’s something you’d hoped was healed.”

Thinking Stills Stories Tears Forgotten Ancient Terror Scary Working It Scare Echoes Healed Scary Stories

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“She threw up her hands. "All right. Why not?" Why not?" Sure." His arms fell to his sides. "That's it? I pour my heart out. I love you so much I've got freakin' tears in my eyes. And all I get in return is 'Why not'?" What did you expect? Am I supposed to fall all over you just because you've finally come to your senses?" Would it be too much to ask?"...He'd begun to glare at her again, his eyes growing stormier by the minute."When do you think you might be ready? To fall all over me, that is.”

“Pippa's laugh is bitter, tinged with tears. 'Ha! Why do girls think being beautiful will solve every problem? Being beautiful just creates problems. It's a misery. I wish I were someone else.”

Thinking Problem Beautiful Girl Wish Laughing Tears Misery Solve Bitter Being Beautiful

Author:Libba Bray

“I know it. I know I shall make beastly mistakes, Father-" "The world does not forgive mistakes so quickly, my girl." He sounds bitter and sad. "If the world will not forgive me," I say softly, "I shall have to learn to forgive myself." He nods in understanding. "And how will you marry? Or do you intend to marry?" I think of Kartik, and tears threaten. "I shall meet someone one day, as Mother found you.”

Ifs Thinking Knows World Doe Mother Girl Found Father Understanding Sound Mistake Tears One Day Forgiving Bitter Forgive Me My Girl Found You Beastly Learn To Forgive

Author:Libba Bray

“I'm thinking of being a professional mourner. How hard can it be? Tear at your hair, sing a dirge or two, take the rest of the week off.”

Thinking Two Hard Week Tears Hair

Book:Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal

Source: Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal

“I feel helpless, hopeless, too low to call out, too weak to think. Impotent tears dribble down.”

Thinking Feels Tears Lows Weak Hopeless Helpless Dribble

Book:On the Side of the Angels: The Second Volume of the Journals of Elizabeth Smart

Source: On the Side of the Angels: The Second Volume of the Journals of Elizabeth Smart

“What are you thinking?" he asks. I know Gage hates it when I cry - he is completely undone by the sight of tears - so I blink hard against the sting. "I'm thinking how thankful I am for everything," I say, "even the bad stuff. Every sleepless night, every second of being lonely, every time the car broke down, every wad of gum on my shoe, every late bill and losing lottery ticket and bruise and broken dish and piece of burnt toast." His voice is soft. "Why, darlin'?" "Because it all led me here to you.”

Source: Sugar Daddy: A Novel

“"Well, it's no use your talking about waking him," said Tweedledum, "when you're only one of the things in his dream. You know very well you're not real."”

Ifs Thinking Knows Wells Said Real Use Dream Able Bits Half Talking Laughing Cry Tears Ridiculous Tone Contempt Waking Interrupted

Author:Lewis Carroll

“Think neither fear nor courage saves us. Unnatural vices are fathered by our heroism. Virtues are forced upon us by our impudent crimes. These tears are shaken from the wrath-bearing tree.”

Thinking Fear Virtue Tree Crime Tears Vices Heroism Wrath Unnatural

Author:T. S. Eliot

“On Waterloo Bridge where we said our goodbyes, the weather conditions bring tears to my eyes. I wipe them away with a black woolly glove And try not to notice I've fallen in love On Waterloo Bridge I am trying to think: This is nothing. you're high on the charm and the drink. But the juke-box inside me is playing a song That says something different. And when was it wrong? On Waterloo Bridge with the wind in my hair I am tempted to skip. You're a fool. I don't care. the head does its best but the heart is the boss- I admit it before I am halfway across”

Source: Two Cures for Love: Selected Poems 1979-2006

“One does not really feel much grief at other people's sorrows; one tries, and puts on a melancholy face, thinking oneself brutal for not caring more; but one cannot and it is better, for if one grieved too deeply at other people's tears, life would be unendurable; and every man has sufficient sorrows of his own without taking to heart his neighbour's.”

People Ifs Thinking Men Feels Trying Heart Doe Would Be Faces Grief Tears Sorrow Oneself Caring Every Man Sufficient Melancholy Brutal Neighbour Not Caring Unendurable Caring More

Author:W. Somerset Maugham

“It's meant to be pretty," whispers Octavia, and I can see the tears threatening to spill over her lashes. Posy considers this and says matter-of-factly, "I think you'd be pretty in any color." The tiniest of smiles forms on Octavia's lips. "Thank you.”

Thinking I Can Matter Form Tears Color Lips Meant To Be Threatening Spills Lashes Posies

Book:Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)

Source: Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)

“Your problem is you don't understand what that word means. People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that's holding you back, the person who brings you to your attention so you can change your life. A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake. But to live with a soul mate forever? Nah. Too painful. Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then they leave.”

“I gave examples from my clinical practice of how love was not wholly a thought or feeling. I told of how that very evening there would be some man sitting at a bar in the local village, crying into his beer and sputtering to the bartender how much he loved his wife and children while at the same time he was wasting his family's money and depriving them of his attention. We recounted how this man was thinking love and feeling love--were they not real tears in his eyes?--but he was not in truth behaving with love.”

Source: Glimpses of the Devil: A Psychiatrist's Personal Accounts of Possession, Exorcism, and Redemption

“I think this is really a defining moment for the Arab world. The problem is, it is all going to be about blood, sweat and tears. In certain countries it may be just sweat, and in some countries sweat and tears, and in some countries, as you can see, a lot of blood. I think initial instability is something that we are all extremely nervous of.”

Thinking World May Country Moments Problem Certain Blood Tears Nervous Sweat Initials Defining Instability Arab World Sweat And Tears Defining Moments Blood Sweat And Tears

Author:Abdallah II

“I remember asking myself one night, while I was curled up in the same old corner of my same old couch in tears yet again over the same old repetition of sorrowful thoughts, 'Is there ANYTHING about this scene you can change, Liz?' And all I could think to do was stand up, whle still sobbing, and try to balance on one foot in the middle of the living room. Just to prove that - while I couldn't stop the tears or change my dismal interior dialogue - I was not yet totally out of control: at least I could cry hysterically while balanced on one foot.”

Source: Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything

“Think of it like the best mac and cheese you've ever had. No neon yellow Velveeta and bread crumbs. I'm talking gourmet cheddar, the expensive stuff from Vermont that crackles as it melts into the crust on top. Imagine if right before you were about to tear into it, the mac and cheese starts talking to you?”

Ifs Thinking Stuff Talking Imagine Tears Bread Expensive Yellow Cheese Macs Crumbs Neon Vermont Gourmet Cheddar Bread Crumbs

Author:Alaya Dawn Johnson

“I am always amazed that so many people are concerned with wanting to be what they are not;What is the point of making yourself look ridiculous? You don't always have to pretend to be strong,there is no need to prove all the time that everything is going well,you shouldn't be concerned about what other people are thinking. Cry if you need to,it's good to cry out all your tears,because only then you will be able to smile again.”

People Ifs Thinking Needs Wells Looks Able Strong Cry Tears Prove Concerned Ridiculous Amazed

Author:Paulo Coelho

“Don't cry." "How can I not?" I asked him. "You just said you loved me." "Well, why else did you think all of this was happening?" He set the book aside to wrap his arms around me. "The Furies wouldn't be trying to kill you if I didn't love you." "I didn't know," I said. Tears were trickling down my cheeks, but I did nothing to try to stop them. His shirt was absorving most of them. "You never said anything about it. Every time I saw you, you just acted so... wild." "How was I supposed to act?" he asked. "You kept doing things like throwing tea in my face.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Trying Wells Said Book Faces Saws Love You Cry Tears Arms Happenings Tea Shirts Abandon Throwing Cheeks Wraps Fury

Book:Abandon

Source: Abandon

“Does a soldier go to war in order to kill the enemy? no, he goes in order to die for his country. Does a wife want to show her husband how happy she is? no, she wants him to see how she suffers in order to make him happy Does the husband go to work thinking he will find personal fulfillment there? no, he is giving his sweat and tears for the good of the family And so it goes on: sons give up their dreams to please their parents, parents give up their lives in order to please their children; pain and suffering are used to justify the one thing that should bring only LOVE.”

“Aunt Petunia burst into tears. Hestia Jones gave her an approving look that changed to outrage as Aunt Petunia ran forward and embraced Dudley rather than Harry. 'S-so sweet, Dudders...' she sobbed into his massive chest. 'S-such a lovely b-boy...s-saying thank you...' 'But he hadn't said thank you at all!' said Hestia indignantly. 'He only said he didn't think Harry was a waste of space!' 'Yeah, but coming from Dudley that's like "I love you.”

Thinking Looks Said Space Boys Love You Changed Tears Sweet Waste Yeah Lovely Ran Massive Chests Aunt Outrage Saying Thank You Approving Petunias Waste Of Space Hestia

Author:J. K. Rowling

“I've had your tears with mine, and you've had mine with yours. I think that's more intimate even than a kiss.”

Thinking Tears Mines Kissing Intimate

Book:The Ender Quintet

Source: The Ender Quintet

“Everyone comes here for pleasure. Even if they think they don't. Embracing it is harder for some and they go mad before they truly accept it. Most of the places they cme from are founded on guilt and rules. The Ripers want us to break away from that - some wish to tear it from us while others are more subtle.”

Ifs Thinking Want Wish Pleasure Accepting Break Tears Harder Mad Guilt Subtle

Author:Marianne de Pierres

“And now I may dismiss my heroine to the sleepless couch, which is the true heroine's portion - to a pillow strewed with thorns and wet with tears. And lucky may she think herself, if she get another good night's rest in the course of the next three months.”

Ifs Thinking May Night Three Courses Next Tears Months Lucky Portions Wet Couches Pillow Thorns Heroines Three Months Good Night

Book:The Novels of Jane Austen

Source: The Novels of Jane Austen

“Andrius turned. His eyes found mine. I'll see you he said. My face didn't wrinkle. I didn't utter a sound. But for the first time in months I cried. Tears popped from their dry sockets and sailed down my cheeks in one quick stream. I looked away. The NKVD called the bald man's name. Look at me wispered Andrius moving close. I'll see you he said. Just think about that. Just think about me bringing you your drawings. Picture it because I'll be there.”

Thinking Men Firsts Looks Said Eye Faces Moving Found Names Sound Tears Mines Months First Time Drawing Streams His Eyes Dry Cheeks Cried Look At Me Wrinkles Bald Man Drawing Pictures

Book:Between Shades of Gray

Source: Between Shades of Gray

“So we don't believe that life is beautiful because we don't recall it but if we get a whiff of a long-forgotten smell we are suddenly intoxicated and similarly we think we no longer love the dead because we don't remember them but if by chance we come across an old glove we burst into tears.”

Ifs Thinking Believe Long Beautiful Remember Life Is Chance Tears Don't Believe Forgotten Smell Recalls Gloves Life Is Beautiful Intoxicated

Book:Marcel Proust, Selected Letters: 1910-1917

Source: Marcel Proust, Selected Letters: 1910-1917

“You've got to think of the fine times you had with your mate, not the moment of his perishin'. Every tear you shed now only wets his windin' sheet and disturbs his rest”

Thinking Moments Tears Fine Mates Shed Sheets Sailor

Book:Bloody Jack: Being an Account of the Curious Adventures of Mary

Source: Bloody Jack: Being an Account of the Curious Adventures of Mary

“People talk sometimes of a bestial cruelty, but that's a great injustice and insult to the beasts; a beast can never be so cruel as a man, so artistically cruel. The tiger only tears and gnaws, that's all he can do. He would never think of nailing people by the ears, even if he were able to do it.”

People Ifs Thinking Men Sometimes Able Can Do Tears Ears Injustice Cruelty Beast Insult Tigers Brothers Karamazov

Book:The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)

Source: The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)

“I think what is British about me is my feelings and awareness of others and their situations. English people are always known to be well mannered and cold but we are not cold - we don't interfere in your situation. If we are heartbroken, we don't scream in your face with tears - we go home and cry on our own.”

People Ifs Thinking Wells Feelings Home Faces Situation Known Awareness Cry Tears Cold British Your Face Scream Interfere Heartbroken Well Mannered Awareness Of Others

Author:Michael Caine