Particular Moments

More Stars than There are

Tag: Quotes

October 24, 2015

Paradoxical Itch

“Remarkable, most people blunder around the city and all they see are streets and shops and cars….you see the battlefield. You’ve seen it already, haven’t you?

You have an intermittent tremor in your left hand. Your therapist thinks it’s post-traumatic stress disorder. She thinks you’re haunted by memories of your military service…Fire her. She’s got it the wrong way around.

You’re under stress right now and your hand is perfectly steady. You’re not haunted by the war…you miss it (whispers). Welcome back.”

—M.H.

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September 27, 2015

Feel Less

“You are trying not

To look so Young

And Miserable.”

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September 13, 2015

Iron Lady

“In the end, more than freedom, they wanted security. They wanted a comfortable life, and they lost it all—security, comfort, and freedom. When the Athenians finally wanted not to give to society but for society to give to them, when the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.”

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“They are casting their problem on society. And, you know, there is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first…People have got the entitlements too much in mind, without the obligations. There’s no such thing as entitlement, unless someone has first met an obligation.”

—M.H.T

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September 1, 2015

Talk

“Soul searching…I think I may throw up.”

“Yes. I think I lost pieces of it to the shameless liars and voracious animals around here.”

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August 4, 2015

Quotes

“It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.”

—Winston Churchill.

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July 24, 2015

Rent-A-Spine

“I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life, the life of toil and effort, of labor and strife; to preach that the highest form of success which comes, not to the man who desires mere easy peace, but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship, or from bitter toil, and who out of these wins the splendid ultimate triumph.”

 —T.R.

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Having been very much of a slave lately, I couldn’t help but to have found some affirmation from this very true—albeit a little theatrical speech excerpt.

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July 16, 2015

The Undeniable

 

“However strong Dylan Lokensgard’s yearning to fit in, to win acceptance, to love and to be loved, he could not defeat the unseen forces which direct behavior.

In the struggle between our desire to determine who and what we will be, and the identity which biology defines for us, there can only be one outcome.

But even in victory, there are forces biology cannot defeat—the stirrings of the soul; the mysteries of desire; the simple truth that the heart wants, what the heart wants.”

— Scully’s Monologue, Lord of the Flies, X Files.

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July 13, 2015

Temporarily This Way

 

“Perhaps you thought you were in love—that was a long time ago.”

—Bond speaking to Severine.

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May 16, 2015

Past The Law

“You degrade the law you serve just to protect some woman who cast you aside like offal?”

“In a second.”

“And you think that I’m the monster. Love is supposed to dignify us, exalt us. How can it be love, John, if all it does is make you lonely and corrupt?”

—conversation between John Luther and Alice Morgan.

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May 8, 2015

Ideal in Prose

“If you don’t confirm in Britain, it’s always a struggle, but I’m not going to change the way I am…I just don’t lick asses, basically. I just do it the way I wanna do it.”

—Mark Powell.

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