Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again.
If you want to gather honey, don't kick over the beehive.
We cannot have a world where everyone is a victim. "I'm this way because my father made me this way. I'm this way because my husband made me this way." Yes, we are indeed formed by traumas that happen to us. But you must take charge, you must take over, you are responsible.
How does one know if she has forgiven? You tend to feel sorrow over the circumstance instead of rage, you tend to feel sorry for the person rather than angry with him. You tend to have nothing left to say about it all.
You can't plan for the future, because some guy's going to land in a spaceship with three heads and a big beak and take over everything.
I can't understand why anyone would want nuclear warheads. If you shoot them off, it's not like you can take over that country - all you do is kill millions of people.
I believe in not over thinking things too much. When the right thing comes along, you really don't have a choice.
Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.
Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road.
You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.
Over a long period of time, living as if you were someone else is no fun.
And once you cross over into that world, no matter how strong you are, you have to pay the price.
In a way you can feel that the poet actually is looking over your shoulder, and you say to yourself, now, how would this go for him? Would this do or not?
There is no such thing as a lovers' oath.
If you look at Newcastle or Gateshead, even over twenty years, even with the previous administration, it has moved quite remarkably in transforming itself.
I started by looking at what others had done before me. You see, over the years there have been attempts by many different people to reconstruct the chariot.
What I do is draw but if you make an animated feature obviously it takes a whole team of people, and Zippy is my work. I felt that turning it over to a team of people would be wrong.
Here, you can walk into a bookstore and pick up a Bible or Christian literature and learn. Over there, they are lucky if they have one Bible for a whole village.
So you eat, you sleep, and then this wonderful child comes out, but you don't feel like you have any control over that process, over her, over her character and who she is.
And you would accept the seasons of your heart just as you have always accepted that seasons pass over your fields and you would watch with serenity through the winters of your grief.
You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times out of ten they're mean bastards at heart.
When you fall head over heels for someone, you're not falling in love with who they are as a person; you're falling in love with your idea of love.
That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture!
I've known Harvey for over 40 years and I worked with him on the Burnett show for 11 years. I guess you could say we're about as close as you can get to being a comedy team.
"Failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.
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