Few revolutions succeed, and when they do, you often discover they did not gain what you hoped for, and you condemn yourself to perpetual fear, as the parties you defeated may always regain power and work for your ruin.
Francesco GuicciardiniRead
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Few revolutions succeed, and when they do, you often discover they did not gain what you hoped for, and you condemn yourself to perpetual fear, as the parties you defeated may always regain power and work for your ruin.
Maurice Sendak never - I remember he said something that was very striking because it's something I never thought about. I always loved his work, and he said, 'I don't really view myself as a children's book author. I just try and write about childhood as honestly as I can.'
I'll always love rap, no matter what's going on.
I have always marched to my own beat, and most frequently, it was inconsistent not only with my own immediate family, but with my culture as well.
You can't hear a word and just hear it as raw sound; it always evokes an associated meaning and emotion in the brain.
I am not a person who yells at all, but I realized that I have always felt so good after doing the Tarzan yell, after doing Charo, or screaming as Eunice.
I've learned you can always achieve more than you thought you could. There are moments when I've walked off the court, and I'm like, 'I don't know how I won that match.' It was actually impossible, but it happened, and then you realize that you can push yourself much further than you ever thought, and you can make the impossible happen.
I spend the entire 90 minutes looking for space on the pitch. I'm always between the opposition's two holding midfielders and thinking, 'The defence is here, so I get the ball and I go there to where the space is.'
Nobody sang better than my mom. That's why I've never even thought of singing for singing sake. I've always thought of a song as an acting piece, as a way to say something.
Fixity is always momentary. But how can it always be so? If it were, it would not be momentary - or would not be fixity.
Poetry, whatever the manifest content of the poem, is always a violation of the rationalism and morality of bourgeois society.
It's always the case that the minority has to navigate two different worlds. Women have to know how to live in a man's world. Gay people have to know how to live in a straight world. Black people gotta know how to live in a predominantly white world.
It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.
Artists - musicians, painters, writers, poets - always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.
When evil acts in the world it always manages to find instruments who believe that what they do is not evil but honorable.
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.
Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.
I always say that people should not rush to change religions. There is real value in finding the spiritual resources you need in your home religion.
Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.
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