quotes about Jeering

“And I have been able to give freedom and life which was acknowledged in the ecstasy of walking hand in hand across the most beautiful bridge of the world, the cables enclosing us and pulling us upward in such a dance as I have never walked and never can walk with another.”

Source : Brom Weber, Hart Crane (1970). “Hart Crane: a biographical and critical study”

“It seems to me that if you can't make a good solid case for your faith, you don't have a religion, you just have a habit.”

“The deep hurt is the mirror image of the deep joy that still awaits you.”

“There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.”

Source : 1990 Diary entry, 30 Nov.

“Give your kids time to dream.”

“I do love country music.”

“My point is there's a hidden Scotland in anyone who speaks the Northern Ireland speech. It's a terrific complicating factor, not just in Northern Ireland, but Ireland generally.”

“Love, like the opening of the heavens to the saints, shows for a moment, even to the dullest person, the possibilities of the human race. One has faith, hope, and charity for another being, perhaps but the creation of the imagination; still it is a great advance for a person to be profoundly loving, even in his or her imagination.”

“In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.”

“If we are going to find our way out of shame and back to each other, vulnerability is the path and courage is the light. To set down those lists of *what we're supposed to be* is brave. To love ourselves and support each other in the process of becoming real is perhaps the greatest single act of daring greatly.”