“Dont speak of tomorrow. Let the music speak to us tonight, in a happier language than ours.”
Wilkie Collins book The Woman in White
Variant: Let the music speak to us of tonight, in a happier language than our own.
Source: The Woman in White
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Ernesto Che Guevara (1928–1967) Argentine Marxist revolutionary
Afro-Asian Conference (1965)
Context: For us there is no valid definition of socialism other than the abolition of the exploitation of one human being by another. As long as this has not been achieved, if we think we are in the stage of building socialism but instead of ending exploitation the work of suppressing it comes to a halt — or worse, is reversed — then we cannot even speak of building socialism.
“Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They're just braver 5 minutes longer.”
Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) American politician, 40th president of the United States (in office from 1981 to 1989)
Variant: Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They're just braver five minutes longer.
Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician
“You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
An abbreviated version of a quote by California politician Dianne Feinstein, from an interview with Cosmopolitan magazine in October 1985 https://books.google.com/books?id=zmxNAQAAIAAJ&dq=You+have+to+learn+the+rules+of+the+game+and+then+you+have+to+play+better+than+anyone+else&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=%22rules+of+the+game%22, on the topic of women running for public office. The original was: "... I really do have staying power. That's important for women who run for office. When you get in there and push for a lot of new things all at once and don't get them, you don't just leave. You have to commit, be a team player, learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play it better than anyone else." <br class="br">Misattributed
“She might be a great person, but life's so much bigger than just loving someone.”
Kazuo Ishiguro (1954) Japanese-born British author
Source: Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall
Irving Stone (1903–1989) American writer
Source: Clarence Darrow for the Defense
“Was there any human urge more pitiful-or more intense- than wanting another chance at something?”
Joe Hill (1879–1915) Swedish-American labor activist, songwriter, and member of the Industrial Workers of the World
Source: NOS4A2
“Let him think I am more man than I am and I will be so.”
Ernest Hemingway book The Old Man and the Sea
Source: The Old Man and the Sea (1952)
“Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.”
Anne Bradstreet (1612–1672) Anglo-American poet
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Meditations Divine and Moral (1664)
