R.R. Hood Quotes

No blessed leisure for love or hope, But only time for grief.

It was a childish ignorance, But now 'tis little joy To know I'm further off from heaven Than when I was a boy.

While the steeples are loud in their joy, To the tune of the bells' ring-a-ding, Let us chime in a peal, one and all, For we all should be able to sing Hullah baloo.

Life is a process of evolution and anyone who thinks the current world order is OK does not get what evolution is all about.

You can be for something and still be damaged by it.

I'm lucky enough that people tend to agree a lot with what I say. But really if anyone in the band has a really strong feeling, it carries a lot of weight.

It's so important that we say 'I can see his point of view and I can see his point of view'.

That feeling of hopelessness and racism has been looming over Detroit ever since I was a kid.

Some dreams we have are nothing else but dreams, Unnatural and full of contradictions; Yet others of our most romantic schemes, Are something more than fictions.

Oh! God! That bread should be so dear, and flesh and blood so cheap!

No mother should lose her child.

His leaving had been like snipping off the end of a rope - leaving two unraveling strands.

The only language she could speak was grief. How could he not know that? Instead, she said, "I love you." She did. She loved him. But even that didn't feel like anything anymore.

When heaven joins the battle against you, who could stand?

My favorite movie, one of 'em is [Notorious]. I love Scarface as well. I've got a lot of mob movies.

Time doesn't heal, I had learned, it just keeps moving. And it takes us with it.

A sibling is the lens through which you see your childhood.

Don't waste your one beautiful life.

Grief doesn't have a plot. It isn't smooth. There is no beginning and middle and end.

I'm more interested in writing about the personal stories of people. Sometimes I don't agree with them.

Christianity and the Holy Spirit is not just for a special group of people, it's for all of us. That's when I really began to seek God and his will for my life.

I resolved that, like the sun, as long as my day lasted, I would look on the bright side of everything.

Comfort and indolence are cronies.

Even now, there are still days so beautiful, I almost believe in God.

Their fate rested entirely on me. I could save them by telling the truth. I could destroy them by lying. No one should have that much power.

Makes sense, the earth is quick to consume the flesh of things that ain't natural.

I am the woman with the cool vintage glasses... I am the proud wife beside her husband... I am the writer who has written a new novel.

My fundamental philosophy is that you owe it to society to transfer to them any knowledge you have that might be useful.

I like to expand myself as far as watching movies.

I wanted "Champion" to accompany that whole growth situation, 'cause I feel like, if you go overtime, you will become a champion.

I had this one rock band I used to listen to, but I forgot the name of them.

No one can write like Cheryl Strayed.

In my adult life, I had spent a lot of time angry at God, mostly over the sudden deaths in my family - my brother at 30, my daughter at 5.

My cousins and I used to play Beatle wives. We all wanted to be married to Paul, but John was O.K. too. None of us wanted Ringo. Or even worse, George.

The eyes of a man are of no use without the observing power. Telescopes and microscopes are cunning contrivances, but they cannot see of themselves.

Having been in the military myself, there is an awful moment when you're in this moment of conflict.

Hany Abu-Assad was sitting next to me, and his film 'Paradise Now' had won the Golden Globe. He said to me at the Globes, 'Paradise now, talk to you later.' [laughs] I gave him a big hug for that.

One reads many scripts, and some of them are good and some of them are not, but every now and then, one really grabs you. You simply can't put it down.

I am a story-teller working with a craft. My job is to use my craft - which is a different thing to my race - and tell a story well.

In the end, what counts is what you do.

Changing the world is not easy, but its pursuit will change you profoundly.

Almost never does a single company have excellence in a multiplicity of disciplines.

For scientific researchers, charitable donations are enormous engines of new opportunities.

The major thing is to view biology as an information science.

New ideas require new structures.

The road does not always bring out the best in people.

I feel like, as a people, we're sort of stumbling in the dark right now.

Paste may be the last great American music magazine left.

I've always thought preaching to the converted is just kind of futile and silly.

Racism is a worldwide problem.