“Dont speak of tomorrow. Let the music speak to us tonight, in a happier language than ours.”
Variant: Let the music speak to us of tonight, in a happier language than our own.
Source: The Woman in White
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.”
Variant: Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They're just braver five minutes longer.
“You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.”
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."
Misattributed
“She might be a great person, but life's so much bigger than just loving someone.”
Source: Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall
“Was there any human urge more pitiful-or more intense- than wanting another chance at something?”
Source: NOS4A2
“Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.”
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Meditations Divine and Moral (1664)
