„I tried to manipulate and control people and I harbored resentment. I wanted to be forgiven but I wouldn't forgive others.“
Lauryn Hill2
Cantora, rapper, produtora musical e atriz americana 1975Citações relacionadas
„The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.“
— Philip K. Dick American author 1928 - 1982
"How To Build A Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later" (1978)
„How completely, how thoroughly he has stolen my child. I have never even tried to forgive him.“
— Octavia E. Butler, livro Parable of the Talents
Epilogue (p. 446)
Parable of the Talents (1998)
„I wouldn't want to stop making those gaffes, even if I could. People realise I am flesh and blood. I am not sensitive about it. It's just my enthusiasm. I want to say so much more than I have time for.“
— Murray Walker Motorsport commentator and journalist 1923
Byron Young (November 9, 1997) "Schu dirty rats! - Motor racing", News of the World, Section: Sport, p. 63.
Interviews
„I haven't consciously tried to develop [a style]. The only thing I've consciously tried to do was put myself in a position to hear the people I wanted to hear talk talk.“
— Nelson Algren American novelist, short story writer 1909 - 1981
"The Art of Fiction No. 11" (1955)
Contexto: Well, I haven't consciously tried to develop [a style]. The only thing I've consciously tried to do was put myself in a position to hear the people I wanted to hear talk talk. I used the police lineup for I don't know how many years. [... ] I was just over on the South Side and got rolled. But they gave me a card, you know, to look for the guys in the lineup, and I used that card for something like seven years.
„I want to continue being crazy; living my life the way I dream it, and not the way the other people want it to be.“
— Paulo Coelho Brazilian lyricist and novelist 1947
Fonte: Veronika Decides to Die
„I think people should be allowed to do anything they want. We haven't tried that for a while. Maybe this time it'll work.“
— George Carlin American stand-up comedian 1937 - 2008
Books, Napalm and Silly Putty (2001)
„I never think about what I want. It's about what you want to give to other people.“
— Oprah Winfrey American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist 1954
As quoted in The Money Adventure (1998) by Egbert Sukop, p. 128
„You pushed your greatest chance away
But still I really want to sayI forgive you.“
— Juliana Hatfield American guitarist/singer-songwriter and author 1967
"Noblesse Oblige"
Juliana's Pony: Total System Failure (2000)
Contexto: I showed you how to touch a star
I helped you forget who you are
Baby, you can drive my car
Over to the right side of the tracksYou pushed your greatest chance away
But still I really want to sayI forgive you.
„I think I'm a realist. Which people who don't like me consider to be pessimism. It isn't pessimism at all. If I was a pessimist I wouldn't get up, I wouldn't shave, I wouldn't watch Batman at 7:30 a. m. Pessimists just don't do that sort of thing.“
— Morrissey English singer 1959
from "Stop me if you've heard this one before", interview by Len Brown in NME (20 February 1988)
In interviews etc., About himself and his work
„There’s no reason to assume that my idea of what‘s better would really be better. I resent it when other people try to inflict their ideas of betterness on me.“
— Frank Zappa American musician, songwriter, composer, and record and film producer 1940 - 1993
Oui interview (1979)
Contexto: There’s no reason to assume that my idea of what‘s better would really be better. I resent it when other people try to inflict their ideas of betterness on me. I don’t think they know. And I can’t see any authority on the horizon that’s got any answers that seem worthwhile. Most of the things that are suggested are probably detrimental to your mental health.
„I do not believe in forgiveness as it is preached by the church. We do not need the forgiveness of God, but of each other and of ourselves.“
— Robert G. Ingersoll Union United States Army officer 1833 - 1899
"What Must We Do To Be Saved?" (1880) http://www.gutenberg.org/files/38801/38801-h/38801-h.htm Section XI, "What Do You Propose?"
Contexto: I do not believe in forgiveness as it is preached by the church. We do not need the forgiveness of God, but of each other and of ourselves. If I rob Mr. Smith and God forgives me, how does that help Smith? If I, by slander, cover some poor girl with the leprosy of some imputed crime, and she withers away like a blighted flower and afterward I get the forgiveness of God, how does that help her? If there is another world, we have got to settle with the people we have wronged in this. No bankrupt court there. Every cent must be paid.
„I have spoken all over the world and I have great respect for Muslims, I have great respect for the African people, I have respect for the other races. Even back home in Lousiana, I'm called a racist, but I have respect for the Black people of my country and I want them to have their own life, too, and I want them to be able to pursue their own destiny and not be controlled, and not be damaged.“
— David Duke American White nationalist, white supremacist, writer, right-wing politician, and a former Republican Louisiana State R… 1950
Podcast (25 August 2006)
„I, along with something like 5 million other people, insure to enable me to go into hospital on the day I want; at the time I want, and with a doctor I want.“
— Margaret Thatcher British stateswoman and politician 1925 - 2013
Answering questions at a general election news conference (4 June 1987) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/speeches/displaydocument.asp?docid=106866. Mrs Thatcher had been asked if she trusted the Health Service enough to put herself in its hands, a reference to her use of private health insurance.
Second term as Prime Minister
„In the photograph by my bed my mother is perpetually smiling on me. I guess I have forgiven us both, although sometimes in the night my dreams will take me back to the sadness, and I have to wake up and forgive us again.“
— Sue Monk Kidd, livro The Secret Life of Bees
Fonte: The Secret Life of Bees
„I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.“
— Simone Weil French philosopher, Christian mystic, and social activist 1909 - 1943
Fonte: Void and Compensation (1947), p. 200
„I cannot forgive, but I understand.“
— Christopher Paolini, livro Inheritance
Nasuada, on the actions of Murtagh
Inheritance (2011)
