The trauma said. Don't write these poems. Nobody wants to hear you cry about the grief inside your bones. ~Andrea Gibson
#quotes #andrea-gibson #sorrow

Translation is not a matter of words only, it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture. ~Anthony Burgess
#quotes #anthony-burgess #language #translation #design #culture

Health care is not about insurance! Health care is about getting treatment. ~P. J. O'Rourke
#quotes #p-j-o-rourke #health #insurance #medicine

We need better neighbors, neighbors that care about the schools in their neighborhood, whether they have kids in them or not, because they know that the health and vitality of that neighborhood depends on it. ~Thomas Friedman
#quotes #thomas-friedman #caring #community

Everything is negotiable. Whether or not the negotiation is easy is another thing. ~Carrie Fisher
#quotes #carrie-fisher #negotiation

Love is the capacity to take care, to protect, to nourish. ~Nhat Hanh
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Whenever you can, act as a liberator. Freedom, dignity, wealth; these three together constitute the greatest happiness of humanity. If you bequeath all three to your people, their love for you will never die. ~Cyrus the Great
#quotes #cyrus-the-great #humanity #freedom

The real difference between telling what happened and telling a story about what happened is that instead of being a victim of our past, we become master of it. ~Donald Davis
#quotes #donald-davis #reality #stories

There are times when I don't take roles because I don't want to be perceived a certain way. ~Harvey Fierstein
#quotes #harvey-fierstein

A thousand men can't undress a naked man. ~Greek Proverb
#proverbs #greek-proverbs #philosophical

A man can not sit down alone to plan for prosperity. ~Nigerian Proverb
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A golden ring can tie a man as tight as any chain. ~Irish Proverb
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The most dangerous food a man can eat is a wedding cake. ~American Proverb
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Better a thousand times careful than once dead. ~Proverb
#proverbs #death

No man drowns if he perseveres in praying to God, and can swim. ~Russian Proverb
#proverbs #russian-proverbs

May you get to Heaven half an hour before the Devil knows you're dead. ~Irish Proverb
#proverbs #irish-proverbs #prayer

Man is a masterpiece of creation, if only because no amount of determinism can prevent him from believing that he acts as a free being. ~Georg C. Lichtenberg
#quotes #georg-c-lichtenberg #freedom #free-will

People believe that if you can shut your Tourette's off for a period of time, then you can always shut it off. I try to explain to people that if I spent my whole life trying to control my tics, that's all I would have time for. ~Dash Mihok
#quotes #dash-mihok #tourette-s #control

Art is good for my soul precisely because it reminds me that we have souls in the first place. ~Tilda Swinton
#quotes #tilda-swinton #art #soul

I think that what went wrong with religion is the same thing that went wrong with politics. Is that it became too money based and too controlling. It is just a weakness that we human beings have for control, we want one thing and then we want more and then we want more. ~Dave Davies
#quotes #dave-davies #politics #religion

Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends. ~Czech Proverb
#proverbs #czech-proverbs #friendship

I see it as my duty in some way is to be out in the world as an Australian putting forward what I consider to be authentic Australian music. ~Nick Cave
#quotes #nick-cave #music #australia

You will always be lucky if you know how to make friends with strange cats. ~Proverb
#proverbs #friendship #cat

It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope. ~Ursula K. Le Guin
#quotes #ursula-k-le-guin #imagination #hope #compassion

The mare is not to be valued according to its housings and its ornaments in front. ~Arabic Proverb
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