“I don't think there's any point in being Irish if you don't know that the world is going to break your heart eventually. I guess that we thought he had a little more time.”
November 22, 1963; upon receiving news that President John F. Kennedy had died. (See A Thousand Days)
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Daniel Patrick Moynihan11
American politician 1927–2003Related quotes
Randa Abdel-Fattah (1979) contemporary Australian writer of novels for young adults
Source: Does My Head Look Big In This?
“I never thought about going up…I don't know, don't you think that must mean something?”
Edie Sedgwick (1943–1971) Socialite, actress, model
Describing a dream to Chuck Wein
Edie : Girl On Fire (2006)
Context: It's like my having to walk down thousands and thousands of white marble stairs... and nothing but a very very blue sky, very blue, like... Yes, and I'd have to walk down them forever. I never thought about going up... I don't know, don't you think that must mean something? It never occurred to me to turn it around, I mean, why didn't I think that way? This was after I had the car accident.
Cassandra Clare The Mortal Instruments
Jace Herondale and Alec Lightwood, pg. 437-438
The Mortal Instruments, City of Heavenly Fire (2014)
Curtis Mayfield (1942–1999) American singer, songwriter, and record producer
He Will Break Your Heart, written with Jerry Butler and Calvin Carter, originally performed by Jerry Butler (1960).
Song lyrics
Michael Moore (1954) American filmmaker, author, social critic, and liberal activist
About Osama bin Laden in an interview with Bob Costas on On the Record with Bob Costas HBO (Spring 2003)
2003
Arnold Sommerfeld (1868–1951) physicist
As quoted in: J.Muller, Physical Chemistry in Depth (Springer Science & Business Media, 1992), p. 1. No primary source is given in that book.
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