Cried Quotes - Page 27

• If it is not totalitarian to arrest a man and detain him, when you cannot charge him with any offence against any written law – if that is not what we have always cried out against in Fascist states – then what is it?… If we are to survive as a free democracy, then we must be prepared, in principle, to concede to our enemies – even those who do not subscribe to our views – as much constitutional rights as you concede yourself.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Men, Law, Rights

  Legislative Assembly Debates, September 21, 1955.

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• Unless you have suffered and wept, you really don't understand what compassion is, nor can you give comfort to someone who is suffering. If you haven't cried, you can't dry another's eyes. Unless you've walked in darkness, you can't help wanderers find the way. Unless you've looked into the eyes of menacing death and felt its hot breath, you can't help another rise from the dead and taste anew the joy of being alive.

  Takashi Nagai

  Eye, Compassion, Giving

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• A man doesn't cry. In my life, I've never cried. I cannot do it. I am a man. How will I cry?

  Alejandro Jodorowsky

  Men, Cry

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• At the beauty of what she had stumbled onto, at the fear that something terrible would happen because she was not vigilant enough. She cried at the fear of something so good that she would not be brave enough to bear it.

  Rebecca Wells

  Fear, Brave, Bears

  Rebecca Wells (2004). “Divine secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood: a novel”

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• I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.

  Wally Lamb

  Men, Shoes, Feet

  Wally Lamb (2012). “She's Come Undone”, p.199, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm a thug, but I swear for three days I cried.

  The Notorious B.I.G.

  Sadness, Thug, Three

  Song: Miss U, Album: Life After Death

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• In modern consumer society, the attack on mother-child eroticism took its total form; breastfeeding was proscribed and the breasts reserved for the husband's fetishistic delectation. At the same time, babies were segregated, put into cold beds alone and not picked up if they cried.

  Germaine Greer

  Mother, Baby, Children

  Germaine Greer (1985). “Sex and destiny: the politics of human fertility”

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• I remember when I watched 'Hellraiser' with my mother. She cried when she saw my name in the opening credits, and I had to tell her that that was the happiest she was going to be for the next two hours.

  Clive Barker

  Mother, Names, Two

  FaceBook post by Clive Barker from Nov 05, 2012

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• Then Job fell to his knees and cried to the Lord, "Thine is the kingdom and the power and glory. Thou hast a good job. Don't blow it."

  Woody Allen

  Funny, God, Jobs

  Woody Allen (2007). “The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose”, Random House Incorporated

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• If I cried me a river of all my confessions, would I drown in my shallow regret?

  Sarah McLachlan

  Regret, Sadness, Rivers

  Song: Black, Album: Solace

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• Neither torch nor dagger," Annabeth said firmly. "There is a third test, which I will pass." "A third test?" the pater demanded. "Mithras was born from rock," Annabeth said, hoping she was right. "He emerged fully grown from the stone, holding his dagger and torch." The screaming and wailing told her she had guessed correctly. "The big mother knows all!" a ghost cried. "That is our most closely guarded secret!" Then maybe you shouldn't put a statue of it on your altar, Annabeth thought.

  Rick Riordan

  Mother, Rocks, Secret

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• 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.

  Jules Ladoumegue

  War, Flames, Bird

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• I met a bipolar bear. He laughed, cried, then wanted a threesome.

  Bo Burnham

  Bipolar, Bears, Mets

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• Regular maps have few surprises: their contour lines reveal where the Andes are, and are reasonably clear. More precious, though, are the unpublished maps we make ourselves, of our city, our place, our daily world, our life; those maps of our private world we use every day; here I was happy, in that place I left my coat behind after a party, that is where I met my love; I cried there once, I was heartsore; but felt better round the corner..., things of that sort, our personal memories, that make the private tapestry of our lives.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Memories, Party, Cities

  Alexander McCall Smith (2007). “Love Over Scotland”, p.356, Anchor

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• It's not your fate to be well treated," Ignatius cried. "You're an overt masochist. Nice treatment will confuse and destroy you.

  John Kennedy Toole

  Nice, Fate, Treatment

  John Kennedy Toole (2004). “A Confederacy of Dunces”, p.558, LSU Press

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• Talked my head off Worked my tail off Cried my eyes out Walked my feet off Sang my heat out So you see, There's really not much left of me.

  Shel Silverstein

  Eye, Feet, Tails

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• Still it cried ‘Sleep no more!’ to all the house: ‘Glamis hath murder’d sleep, and therefore Cawdor shall sleep no more,—Macbeth shall sleep no more!

  William Shakespeare

  Sleep, House, Murder

  1606 Macbeth. Macbeth, act 2, sc.2, l.39-41.

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• Eragon cried out, and in his desperation he reached for Saphira and the Eldunarí... and without meaning to, he drew from their stories of energy. And with that energy he cast a spell. It was a spell without words... His was a spell of instinct and emotion; language could not contain it.

  Christopher Paolini

  Energy, Stories, Emotion

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• More than anything, I felt the unfairness of it, the inarguable injustice of loving someone who might have loved you back but can't due to deadness, and then I leaned forward, my forehead against the back of Takumi's headrest, and I cried, whimpering, and I didn't even feel sadness so much as pain.

  John Green

  Pain, Sadness, Loving Someone

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.113, Penguin

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• May my tears run just as far, that my love might never know that one day I cried for him.

  Paulo Coelho

  Running, Tears, One Day

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• We learn in the past, but we are not the result of that. We suffered in the past, loved in the past, cried and laughed in the past, but that's of no use to the present. The present has its challenges, its good and bad side. We can neither blame nor be grateful to the past for what is happening now. Each new experience of love has nothing whatsoever to do with past experiences. It's always new.

  Paulo Coelho

  Grateful, Past, New Experiences

  "Aleph". Book by Paulo Coelho, 2011.

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• I cried a river of tears but he was too heavy to float on them. So I dragged him with me these years across an ocean.

  August Wilson

  Ocean, Years, Rivers

  August Wilson (1997). “Seven Guitars”, p.80, Penguin

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• I have cried even when the laugh did choke me. But no more think that I am all sorry when I cry, for the laugh he come just the same. Keep it always with you that laughter who knock at your door and say, ‘May I come in?’ is not true laughter. No! He is a king, and he come when and how he like. He ask no person, he choose no time of suitability. He say, ‘I am here.

  Bram Stoker

  Kings, Laughter, Sorry

  Bram Stoker, Colm Toibin (2012). “On Dracula: Including a free facsimile edition of Dracula”, p.121, Hachette UK

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• She put her head down on the table and cried all the tears that she knew she should have cried in the past year and a half. But they weren't ready then, they were now.

  Maeve Binchy

  Past, Should Have, Years

  FaceBook post by Maeve Binchy from Sep 13, 2012

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• I feel responsible for Johnny Ray's success. See many years ago I asked him to be on my show and he asked for a lot of money and I cried. And he stole that from me.

  Jack Benny

  Years, Rays, Responsible

  "The Jack Benny Program". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 1950-1965.

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