489 quotes found
Singer-songwriter · English · 1988
English singer-songwriter (born 1988)
“Sorry. I get attacks of quotitis every once in a while. It's a very rare disease with no cure. It usually attacks older people, and here i am afflicted with it at my tender age.”
“Love of music, of sunsets and sea; a liking for the same kind of people; political opinions that are not radically divergent; a similar stance as we look at the stars and think of the marvelous str...”
“I had never seen the end of day and the beginning of the night greet each other. We were caught in the loveliness between the two. A House Like a Lotus”
“Love does not judge.”
“We do learn and develop when we are exposed to those who are greater than we are. Perhaps this is the chief way we mature.”
“In my dreams, I never have an age.”
“When I start a new seminar I tell my students that I will undoubtedly contradict myself, and that I will mean both things. But an acceptance of contradiction is no excuse for fuzzy thinking. We do ...”
“Aeschylus writes, "In our sleep, pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grade of God.”
“What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.”
“Because it is the nature of love to create, a marriage itself is something which has to be created, so that, together we become a new creature. To marry is the biggest risk in human relations that ...”
“Growing up is a process that never ends. It isn't a point you attain so you can say, Hooray, I'm grown up. Some people never grow up. And nobody ever finishes growing. Or shouldn't. If you stop you...”
“If I do wrong, I may do it unwittingly, thinking I am doing something for the best; but if it turns out to be wrong, I have done it, and I must bear the responsibility. It is not somebody elses or ...”
“She knew that the freedom was in herself, just as the prison had been.”
“Freedom is a terrible gift, and the theory behind all dictatorships is that "the people" do no want freedom.”
“How long your closet held a whiff of you,Long after hangers hung austere and bare.I would walk in and suddenly the trueSharp sweet sweat scent controlled the airAnd life was in that small still liv...”
“You don't want him for a reason. You want him because he's your father.”
“Some things have to be believed to be seen.”
“If it can be verified, we don't need faith... Faith is for that which lies on the other side of reason. Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startli...”
“Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys.”
“As Emmanuel, Cardinal Suhard says, "To be a witness does not consist in engaging in propaganda, nor even in stirring people up, but in being a living mystery. It means to live in such a way that on...”