Recommended quotes
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“If you show me how to get up off the ground”

Jon Bon Jovi (1962) American singer and musician

Lay Your Hands On Me
Music, New Jersey (1988)

“After All I've Done For you, you're lying. Wouldn't it be nice to tell the truth?”

Jon Bon Jovi (1962) American singer and musician

Shot Through The Heart
Music, Bon Jovi (1984)

“An Angel's smile is what you sell, You promise me heaven then put me through hell.”

Jon Bon Jovi (1962) American singer and musician

You Give Love A Bad Name
Music, Slippery When Wet (1986)

“No One said there'd be night like this, Risk your life for a stolen kiss.”

Jon Bon Jovi (1962) American singer and musician

The Price Of Love
Music, 7800° Fahrenheit (1985)

“Your love is like bad medicine”

Jon Bon Jovi (1962) American singer and musician

Bad Medicine
Music, New Jersey (1988)

“Take my hand, we'll make it i swear.”

Jon Bon Jovi (1962) American singer and musician

Music, Slippery When Wet (1986)

“Sometimes you tell the day”

Jon Bon Jovi (1962) American singer and musician

Wanted Dead Or Alive
Music, Slippery When Wet (1986)

“I wanna lay you down in a bed of roses”

Jon Bon Jovi (1962) American singer and musician

Music, Keep The Faith (1992)

“She says we've got to hold on to what we've got”

Jon Bon Jovi (1962) American singer and musician

Livin' On A Prayer
Music, Slippery When Wet (1986)

“You see I've always been a fighter”

Jon Bon Jovi (1962) American singer and musician

Music, Cross Road (1994)

“A devout and serious Christian, she was often bothered by what she read of socialists because she could not, instantly and absolutely, see where they were so wrong. To her horrified ear, they kept sounding as though they had ideas rather like Christ's.”

Claud Cockburn (1904–1981) Irish journalist

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A Discord of Trumpets (1956)

“It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.”
Confragosa in fastigium dignitatis via est.

Seneca the Younger (-4–65 BC) Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist

Source: Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter LXXXIV: On gathering ideas, Line 13

“Knowledge is finite. Wonder is infinite.”

Matt Haig (1975) British writer

Source: The Humans

“I'm here with the cause, I'm holding the torch
In the corner of your room- can you hear me?
And when you're dancing and laughing, and finally living,
Hear my voice in your head and think of me kindly.”

Morrissey (1959) English singer

From the song "Rubber Ring"
From songs

“(About Pop Idols) Obviously, it's designed by record company executives who want a cheap success, and they don't want to give money to anybody and they don't want to give contracts, so they've created this world of very bubbly teenagers who want to be "idols" and they think all they have to do is mime quite well and they've made it. … But it's not the problem of the kids, it's the problem of the record companies, because it's just an inexpensive way for them to have so-called, I won't say "artists", but erm…You're nodding, you know what I mean.”

Morrissey (1959) English singer

From a radio interview with Janice Long (2002)
In interviews etc., About pop culture

“GQ: “Were you in love with Johnny Marr?”
M: “Sexually? Absolutely not. There was a love and it was mutual and equal but it wasn’t physical or sexual. There are lots of people post-Smiths who would like to make some dramatic homosexual story. There never was one. It’s often said that Johnny rescued me but he was also bobbing about in his own lifeboat.””

Morrissey (1959) English singer

From an interview by Adrian Deevoy in GQ http://s15.photobucket.com/albums/a366/gqarrific/, October 2005, p. 278 <br class="br">In interviews etc., About The Smiths

“The reports of my death have been greatly understated.”

Morrissey (1959) English singer

from "Message from Morrissey," True To You http://true-to-you.net/morrissey_news_130131_01 (31 January 2013). Twist on a quote by Mark Twain. <br class="br">In interviews etc., About life and death

“Intellectuals are cynical and cynics have never built a cathedral.”

Henry Kissinger (1923–2023) United States Secretary of State

As quoted in Sketchbook 1966-1971 (1971) by Max Frisch, p. 230
1970s

“Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There is too much fraternizing with the enemy.”

Henry Kissinger (1923–2023) United States Secretary of State

“It is not often that nations learn from the past, even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it.”

Henry Kissinger (1923–2023) United States Secretary of State