Quotes of Richard Thompson

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Imagining playing the guitar is a slightly looser thing than playing it. You can hear more things sometimes. The fingers of your imagination aren't quite as hidebound as your real fingers.

- Richard Thompson

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“ If I had to live my life again, I’d make the same mistakes, only sooner. ”

- Tallulah Bankhead

“ I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is pressed Against the earth's sweet flowing breast; A tree that looks at God all day And lifts her leafy arms to pray; A tree that may in summer wear A nest of robins in her hair; Upon whose bosom snow has lain; Who intimately lives with rain. Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree. ”

- Joyce Kilmer

“ We accept some black people, receive some white people, embrace some Asian people, and welcome some mixed people, but God commands us to love all people. ”

- Matshona Dhliwayo

“ Do I care about pleasure? Yes. But I don't believe in happiness. ”

- Tatiana Vedenska

“ The only time a man can do the right thing is right now. ”

- John Verdon

“ That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Don’t marry him. Don’t be with him. Be with me. ”

- Jenny Han

“ Love all, trust a few. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ If you love me as you say you do,' she whispered, 'make it so that I am at peace. ”

- Leo Tolstoy

“ Education must not simply teach work – it must teach Life. ”

- W. E. B. Du Bois

“ If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present ”

- Lao tzu

“ A life lived in love will never be dull. ”

- Leo Buscaglia

“ A bad attitude is like a flat tire, you can’t get very far until you change it. ”

- Unknown

“ The human tendency is to resemble or imitate those we admire; the common result is the delusion, that to emulate another’s personality creates a pseudo persona, measurably dissimilar from our own. ”

- RJ Intindola

“ When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it's safe inside your mouth. ”

- Jodi Picoult

“ Until you step into the unknown, you don’t know what you’re made of. ”

- Roy T. Bennett

“ There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable. ”

- Chesterton

“ Your memory feels like home to me. So whenever my mind wanders, it always finds it’s way back to you. ”

- Ranata Suzuki

“ Many, many readers have written asking me wistfully about the nature of Sam and Grace's relationship, and I can assure you, that sort is absolutely real. Mutual, respectful, enduring love is completely attainable as long as you swear you won't settle for less. ”

- Maggie Stiefvater

“ Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back. ”

- Arthur Rubenstein

“ Our children will be counted, and justice will be served. Our babies deserve a fair chance at life. We are our children’s groundbreakers; therefore, we cannot give up. We might run out of breath but we must have the willpower when moving forward to fight for our children’s voices to be heard. Bullying is not accepted ”

- Charlena E. Jackson

“ A heart, once stolen, can never be taken back. ”

- Marissa Meyer

“ I felt overwhelmed. I didn’t expect a first kiss to be so…life altering. In a few brief moments, the rule book of my universe had been rewritten. Suddenly I was a brand new person. I was as fragile as a newborn, but instead of the doctor placing me in my mother’s arms, he’d put me in Ren’s. What would Ren do with me? Would he draw me near, soothe me, and teach me about this new world or would he reject me and tell the doctor there must be some mistake. There was no way to know. What a breakable and delicate thing a heart was, no wonder I’d kept mine locked away. ”

- Colleen Houck