Popular quotes
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“Are you saying it's too loud? It's got to be loud. You're supposed to feel it all over.”
Playboy, April 2001
“Deep down, the young are lonelier than the old.”
Source: The Diary of a Young Girl
“We lit the whole world up before we blew up/I still don’t know just how we screwed it up.”
about the relationship with Justin Bieber.
“Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse”
Source: A Tale of Love and Darkness
“You can't hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree.”
Interview: Alan Rickman on "Nobel Son" http://www.ifc.com/2008/12/alan-rickman-on-nobel-son by Aaron Hillis, IFC.com (4 December 2008)
Variant: Any moment might be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.
Source: The Iliad
“He had utter disdain for the Nazis and had no time for their racial purity agenda.”
Nuremberg Trial transcripts
“Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.”
“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.”
As quoted in Our Precarious Habitat (1973) by Melvin A. Benarde, p. v
Context: Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
“The moon has set,
And the Pleiades.
Midnight.
The hour has gone by.
I sleep alone.”
Stanley Lombardo translations, Frag. 72
Designing the Future (2007)
“Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in infomation?”
Choruses from The Rock (1934)
Variant: Where is the Life we have lost in living?
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
Context: O perpetual revolution of configured stars,
O perpetual recurrence of determined seasons,
O world of spring and autumn, birth and dying!
The endless cycle of idea and action,
Endless invention, endless experiment,
Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness;
Knowledge of speech, but not of silence;
Knowledge of words, and ignorance of The Word.
All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance,
All our ignorance brings us nearer to death,
But nearness to death no nearer to God.
Where is the Life we have lost in living?
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
The cycles of Heaven in twenty centuries
Brings us farther from God and nearer to the Dust.