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“It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry 'I could have thought of that' is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn't, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too.”
Douglas Adams
“In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms.”
Che Guevara
“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone elses opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
Oscar Wilde
“Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.”
Norman Vincent Peale
“My recipe for dealing with anger and frustration: set the kitchen timer for twenty minutes, cry, rant, and rave, and at the sound of the bell, simmer down and go about business as usual.”
Phyllis Diller
“My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.”
Arthur Conan Doyle
“There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?”
Sophocles
“When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.”
William Shakespeare
“When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.”
William Shakespeare
“The winds that sometimes take something we love, are the same that bring us something we learn to love. Therefore we should not cry about something that was taken from us, but, yes, love what we have been given. Because what is really ours is never gone forever.”
Bob Marley
“Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.”
Dr Seuss
“She’s crying now but she’ll laugh again.”
Drake
“So cry if you need to, but I can’t stay to watch you. That’s the wrong thing to do.”
Drake
“I remember watching the Grammys and looking at the performances and crying to my mom, saying how much I wanted to be there.”
Christina Aguilera
“People expect me to cry, but I always laugh when things go wrong.”
Christina Aguilera
“We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“I absolutely want to have a career where you make'em laugh and make'em cry. It's all theater.”
Jim Carrey
“When kids hit one year old, it's like hanging out with a miniature drunk. You have to hold onto them. They bump into things. They laugh and cry. They urinate. They vomit.”
Johnny Depp
“My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.”
Maya Angelou
“Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.”
Maya Angelou
“Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency.”
Douglas MacArthur
“Hosting the Oscars is much like making love to a woman. It's something I only get to do when Billy Crystal is out of town.”
Steve Martin
“If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.”
Anais Nin
“Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes,' he said, his voice rising as applause and cheers mounted. 'Shake it off. Stop complainin'. Stop grumblin'. Stop cryin'. We are going to press on. We have work to do.”
Barack Obama
“Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that's usually how you end up crying?”
Chuck Palahniuk
“So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system.”
Milton Friedman
“I'm worth more dead than alive. Don't cry for me after I'm gone; cry for me now.”
Marlene Dietrich
“For college seniors there should be a week of being allowed to cry. Just break down and cry because you are scared and don't know what's next.”
Bill Cosby
“I often try to tell kids to think about all the people who love you, don't cry over the one person who doesn't.”
Bill Cosby