Sappho Quotes

We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.

I hate the word homophobia. It's not a phobia. You are not scared. You are an asshole.

Just because you read it in a magazine,
Or see it on a TV screen
Don't make it factual.

Before adolescence, memory is more interested in the future than the past...

The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.

Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. It is not fair. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of other people's mouths. I do not like him, and do not mean to like Waverley if I can help it, but fear I must.

African music, though very old, is always being rediscovered in the West.

This discipline and rough treatment are a furnace to extract the silver from the dross. This testing purifies the gold by boiling the scum away.

Put the dwarf within you to sleep.

Schultz: You must speak.
Jewish barber: I can't.
Schultz: It's our only hope.

去食、自古皆有死、民無信不立。

I try to keep it positive and play it cool
Shoot up the playground and tell the kids to stay in school

When people show you who they are, believe them, the first time. Not the 29th time!

It is possible and imperative that we discover
A brave and startling truth.

?It’ pretty hard for the Lord to guide you if you haven’t made up your mind which way to go.”

The Rose that Grew from Concrete (2000)