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“(We make the traffic stop) "Stop the traffic…let 'em through…"”
https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/5834782.Louis_Tomlinson
“We believe in each other, that's enough for me.”
On Mary Austin, a long time companion, and the inheritor of most of his estate, as quoted in "For A Song : The Mercury that's rising in rock is Freddie the satiny seductor of Queen" by Fred Hauptfuhrer, in People magazine (5 December 1977) http://www.queenarchives.com/index.php?title=Group_-_12-05-1977_-_People
Context: All my lovers asked me why they couldn't replace Mary, but it's simply impossible. The only friend I've got is Mary and I don't want anybody else. To me, she was my common-law wife. To me, it was a marriage. We believe in each other, that's enough for me.
“If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.”
Source: Conversations with Tennessee Williams
“Do not be afraid to fail exams, be afraid to always be a witness to other students success.”
Success
Source: https://www.yourquote.in/ahmed-omaar-crc7k/quotes
“Life ain't a rehearsal, the camera's always rolling”
"Miss Me", Thank Me Later, Lil Wayne (2010)
2010s
Io parlo parlo ... ma chi m'ascolta ritiene solo le parole che aspetta. ... Chi comanda al racconto non è la voce: è l'orecchio.
Marco Polo to Kublai Khan, in Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities (1974), ch. 9
In fiction
“But then of course everything always happens for a reason”
Mockingbird
2000s, Encore (2004)
Source: "Freedom to learn" (1969), p.236.
Source: A Way of Being
Reported in Janelle Rohr, Animal rights: opposing viewpoints (1989), p. 100; Jane Goodall and Jennifer Lindsey, Jane Goodall: 40 Years at Gombe (1999), p. 6. Occasionally misreported in truncated form, as "The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves", in, e.g., quote honored on XOEarth eco money http://xoearth.org/jane-goodall/
"Politics and the English Language" (1946)
Context: Political language — and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists — is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
“I came to see a king, not a row of corpses.”
After having visited the mausoleum of Alexander the Great in Alexandria, Augustus was asked if he also wanted to visit the mausoleum of the Ptolemies; in Suetonius, Divus Augustus, paragraph 16. Translation: Robert Graves, 1957.
“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”