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Tears Quotes

The Obamas, especially Michelle, have radiated the sense that Americans do not appreciate what they sacrifice by living in a gilded cage. They've forgotten Rule No. 1 of politics: No one sheds tears for anyone lucky enough to live at the White House.

Live Politics Sacrifice Tears Enough

I first read 'The Scarlet Letter' when I was fifteen. In it, I found a familiar vision of religious intolerance to the one around me. I grew up in the 1980s, when televangelists, with their fluffed up hair and their tears, self-righteously denounced all kinds of sinners, reserving a special, full-throated enthusiasm for gay people.

David Ebershoff

Vision People Me Tears Hair Gay

Why not provoke some thought and get people talking about things? I like characters that are flawed because we all are. When people break up in a script, you think, Oh, right, there must be tears shed here. But maybe the fact of the matter is that they're both laughing.

Michael Fassbender

People Tears Think Thought Talking

I recorded the song live in front of an orchestra, and yes, I was very moved, I was in tears.

Live Tears Song Orchestra Yes Front

There's a reason that male golfers don't compete against female golfers. They're in a league of their own, and it would end in tears. It's time to apply this logic to the online world.

Time Tears World End Logic Reason

I always try to balance the light with the heavy - a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.

Light Balance Tears Human Spirit Try

Acting has always been a way for me to express the emotions I had buried. If I hadn't acted, I would have gone insane. In my acting class, I could let out my real tears and everyone thought it was the character. But no, it was me.

Tony Leung Chiu-Wai

Character Me Tears Thought Acting

Christians well know that the much-decorated statue of the Church, as it now stands, is not of pure chiseled marble, but of clay, cemented together by blood and tears and hardened in the fires of hatred and persecution.

Virchand Gandhi

Together Tears Church Know Blood

You couldn't pay me enough money to go back to being 20. So many tears; what a nightmare it was. It's much better being older.

Money Me Tears Better Enough You

I honestly believe life is a combination of laughter and tears, and it's almost always better to laugh than to cry.

Teresa Medeiros

Life Laughter Tears Believe Better

At 49, I find it a little bit difficult to run these days. I've got grade four tears in both Achilles, shin splints, I got no cartilage the toes in my right foot, I've got bone marrow edemas under both knees, I've got one degenerating hip - that's the problem you get.

Tears Problem You Find Run Right

But there are other things than dissipation that thicken the features. Tears, for example.

Tears Things Example Than Other

New York is such a competitive place; it tears people apart. People come here and, if they can't make it in the first month, they get torn apart and they have to go back to where they came from. I don't think that's terribly healthy.

New York People Tears Think Back Go

Once, I went speeding past an old couple and smiled as I imagined their conversation: him grumbling about me and her telling him not to be such an old grouch. Then, suddenly I was in tears, thinking, 'I'll never get to be a grumpy old grandpa!'

Past Me Tears Thinking Conversation

The busy have no time for tears.

Time Tears Busy No Time

The office of drama is to exercise, possibly to exhaust, human emotions. The purpose of comedy is to tickle those emotions into an expression of light relief; of tragedy, to wound them and bring the relief of tears. Disgust and terror are the other points of the compass.

Laurence Olivier

Light Purpose Tears Comedy Exercise

The Trail of Tears should teach all of us the importance of respect for others who are different from ourselves and compassion for those who have difficulties.

Respect Compassion Tears Trail Teach

There are the tears of rage when books get praised when they're so obviously garbage. But then there are so many more that continue to move me: the end of 'Paradise Lost,' 'The Ruined Cottage' by Wordsworth, Prospero's 'Our revels now are ended' speech near the end of 'The Tempest.'

Me Tears End Speech Paradise Lost

I defy anyone to finish Halldor Laxness's 'Independent People' without wetting the pages with tears.

Jonathan Franzen

People Tears Independent Finish Defy

When I was sixteen or seventeen, I wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a playwright. But everything I wrote, I thought, was weak. And I can remember falling asleep in tears because I had no talent the way I wanted to have.

Francis Ford Coppola

Talent Tears Thought Remember I Can

There isn't a single human being who hasn't plenty to cry over, and the trick is to make the laughs outweigh the tears.

Tears Cry Human Over Single Being

While therefore your tears flow, let a due proportion be tears of joy. Yet take the bitter cup with both hands and sit down to your repast. You will soon learn a secret: that there is sweetness at the bottom.

Adoniram Judson

Joy Tears Learn Hands You Down

I remember playing games and having tears roll down my face because it felt like it was never going to be good enough.

Good Tears Face Enough Remember

They're not willing to admit that I've also shed blood and tears and often paid dearly for my success. This makes me feel extremely sad.

Success Sad Me Tears Feel Admit

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