“The times I have tried to get close to someone resulted in me feeling threatened and weak.”
Henry Rollins (1961) American singer-songwriter
Source: Solipsist
Io devo prendermela con qualcuno per ottenere risultati.
From Marco Pastonesi e Giorgio Terruzzi, Palla lunga e pedalare, Dalai Editore, 1992, p. 46, ISBN 88-8598-826-2.
“The times I have tried to get close to someone resulted in me feeling threatened and weak.”
Henry Rollins (1961) American singer-songwriter
Source: Solipsist
“Sometimes the only thing to do is to take the thing that you must have. Even if someone gets hurt.”
Stephen King book Full Dark, No Stars
Source: Full Dark, No Stars
Kurt Vonnegut (1922–2007) American writer
Playboy interview (1973)
Context: It goes against the American storytelling grain to have someone in a situation he can't get out of, but I think this is very usual in life. There are people, particularly dumb people, who are in terrible trouble and never get out of it, because they're not intelligent enough. It strikes me as gruesome and comical that in our culture we have an expectation that man can always solve his problems. This is so untrue that it makes me want to cry — or laugh.
Bill Gates (1955) American business magnate and philanthropist
On being the world's richest man, in an online advertising conference in Redmond, Washington, as quoted in The Guardian (5 May 2006) http://technology.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1768129,00.html <br class="br">2000s
“I thought helping someone else might take me out of my own head for a while.”
Source: Say What You Will
“An Independent is someone who wants to take the politics out of politics.”
Adlai Stevenson (1900–1965) mid-20th-century Governor of Illinois and Ambassador to the UN
As quoted in The Quotable Politician (2003) by William B. Whitman, p. 36
Jesse Ventura (1951) American politician and former professional wrestler
I Ain't Got Time To Bleed (1999)
Jane Seymour (1951) English-American actress
On staying the course as a leading lady in “Jane Seymour: 'I try not to let anyone upstage me'” https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/jane-seymour-i-try-not-to-let-anyone-upstage-me/ in The Telegraph (2016 Apr 10)