Wells Quotes - Page 39

• Well we're waiting here in Allentown For the Pennsylvania we never found For the promises our teachers gave If we worked hard If we behaved So the graduations hang on the wall But they never really helped us at all No they never taught us what was real

  Billy Joel

  Teacher, Wall, Real

  Song: Allentown, Album: The Nylon Curtain, 1982

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• But above everything, drink wines with love. They are like women - different, mysterious, fickle. And each wine has to be taken like a woman. This always begins with a rejection, done gracefully or rudely according to the woman's disposition, and in the end she will grant herself only to someone, who aspires her soul as well as her body. She will belong to the one, who knows how to uncover her with the utmost delicacy.

  Luigi Veronelli

  Taken, Wine, Rejection

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• If you stop searching, you stop living, because then you're dwelling in the past. If you're not reaching forward to any growth or future, you might as well be dead.

  Wynn Bullock

  Life, Philosophy, Future

  Wynn Bullock, Barbara Bullock-Wilson (1984). “Wynn Bullock, photographing the nude: the beginnings of a quest for meaning”, Gibbs Smith

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• The human body represents to me the same universal innocence, timelessness and purity of all seed pods, suggesting the mother as well as the child, the parental as well as the descendant, conceived according to nature's longings.

  Ruth Bernhard

  Mother, Children, Body

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• If you want to join the ranks of the people who changed the game, change yourself and the people around you as well.

  Bebe

  Games, People, Dancer

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• You hear about bands who say, "We did one show where only 20 people showed up", well that was our average gig for five years.

  Dexter Holland

  Average, Years, People

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• You have a teacher talking about his gayness. (The elementary school student) goes home then and says "Mom! What's gayness? We had a teacher talking about this today." The mother says "Well, that's when a man likes other men, and they don't like girls." The boy's eight. He's thinking, "Hmm. I don't like girls. I like boys. Maybe I'm gay." And you think, "Oh, that's, that's way out there. The kid isn't gonna think that." Are you kidding? That happens all the time. You don't think that this is intentional, the message that's being given to these kids? That's child abuse.

  Michele Bachmann

  Girl, Mom, Mother

  "Can Michele Bachmann Save Me?" by Michael Kimmel, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 18, 2011.

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• Representatives of the American intelligence agencies - and I hope they won't be angry - but they could have been more professional, and the diplomats as well. After they found out that he was flying to us, and that he was flying as a transit passenger, there was pressure from all sides - from the Americans, from the Europeans - instead of just letting him go to a country where they could operate easily.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, Gay, Agency

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• Human beings thrive on action. Stagnation does not wear well with us. We are said to have our origins as hunter-gatherers. We run and we chase. We are problem-solvers. We must be continuously tested and we continuously test ourselves. And it will not end until our lives end because of life itself.

  Art Buchwald

  Running, Tests, Doe

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• If we believe that murder is wrong and not admissible in our society, then it has to be wrong for everyone, not just individuals but governments as well.

  Helen Prejean

  Believe, Government, Punishment

  Helen Prejean (2011). “Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States”, p.130, Vintage

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• It is well-nigh obvious that those who are in favor of the death penalty have more affinities with murderers than those who oppose it.

  Remy de Gourmont

  Favors, Death Penalty, Affinity

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• Humankind has to get out of violence only through non-violence. Hatred can be overcome only by love. Counter - hatred only increases the surface as well as the depth of hatred.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Hatred, Violence, Overcoming

  Mahatma Gandhi (2007). “Gandhi on Non-Violence”, p.46, New Directions Publishing

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• Well has it been said that man is the only animal that naturally looks upwards; every other animal naturally looks down. That looking upward and going upward and seeking perfection are what is called salvation; and the sooner a man begins to go higher, the sooner he raises himself towards this idea of truth as salvation.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Men, Animal, Ideas

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.938, Manonmani Publishers

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• People who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Punishment, People, Trials

  "10 Ways to Blow a Death Penalty Case" by Marc Bookman, www.motherjones.com. April 22, 2014.

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• If statistics are any indication, the system may well be allowing some innocent defendants to be executed.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  May, Statistics, Death Penalty

  "O'Connor, in Speech, Blasts Death Penalty, Lawyer Fees and Zero Tolerance". Sandra Day O'Connor's speech to a group of women lawyers in Minnesota, www.foxnews.com. July 2, 2001.

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• And because I love this life
  I know I shall love death as well
  The child cries out when
  From the right breast the mother
  Takes it away, in the very next moment
  To find in the left one
  Its consolation.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Mother, Rest In Peace, Children

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.47, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• My beloved soul,
  having awakened at last into My Peace,
  you can return consciously and
  completely to your own Original Source.
  As this homecoming fills you
  with in expressible joy
  it pervades Allah Most High
  with profound delight as well
  (You will) experience the perfect union
  with Love that is My highest Paradise.

  Lex Hixon

  Rest In Peace, Profound, Perfect

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• The natural inclination of man is to rely solely upon himself and to ignore the purpose of his existence as well as his relationship to God who is his spiritual father. If man will recognize his divine origin, he will then realize his Heavenly Father will not leave him alone to grope in darkness of mind and spirit, but will make available a power to influence him in right paths and into standards of good behavior. The Holy Ghost is that power.

  Delbert L. Stapley

  Spiritual, Father, Men

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• Debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust and wide-open and that...may well include vehement, caustic, and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks on government and public officials.

  William J. Brennan

  Issues, Government, Freedom Of Speech

  New York Times Co. v. Sullivan (1964)

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• Let me tell you another place to look for some savings. We are currently spending $10 billion a month in Iraq when they have a $79 billion surplus. It seems to me that if we're going to be strong at home as well as strong abroad, that we have to look at bringing that war to a close.

  Barack Obama

  Strong, Money, War

  "The First Presidential Debate". "NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer, www.nytimes.com. September 26, 2008.

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• Is this money well spent? This is taxpayer money, it is going to be adding to the deficit short term and if we can't justify it, then we're not going to spend tens or hundreds of billions of dollars, just to make somebody happy, if it's not good for the economy.

  Barack Obama

  Money, Dollars, Economy

  Interview with John Harwood, www.nbcnews.com. January 7, 2012.

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• One opens the inner doors of one's heart to the infinite silences of the Spirit, out of whose abysses love wells up without fail and gives itself to all.

  Thomas Merton

  Heart, Doors, Giving

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• Have I not walked without an upward look Of caution under stars that very well Might not have missed me when they shot and fell? It was a risk I had to take-and took.

  Robert Frost

  Stars, Risk, Looks

  Robert Frost (1975). “The poetry of Robert Frost”

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• I could well imagine that I might have lived in former centuries and there encountered questions I was not yet able to answer; that I had been born again because I had not fulfilled the task given to me.

  Carl Jung

  Tasks, Answers, Might

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• Well I work up Sunday morning,
  With no way to hold my head that didn't hurt,
  And the beer I had for breakfast wasn't bad,
  So I had one more for dessert.
  Then I fumbled through my closet for my clothes,
  And found my cleanest dirty shirt.
  An' I shaved my face and combed my hair,
  An' stumbled down the stairs to meet the day.

  Kris Kristofferson

  Hurt, Morning, Dirty

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