#tag

Religious power, which, as I have already said, frequently identifies itself with political power, has always been a protagonist of this bitter struggle, even when it seemingly was neutral. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

#always #been #bitter #even #frequently

Here in Israel, we want the boys back home, we demand it from our government, who often pay a steep price to get hostages back. But we need a happy ending. We don't want to deal with those days after release, their post-trauma or reintroduction to society. Yet coming home is only the start of their journey. ↗

— Gideon Raff

#back #coming #coming home #days #deal

And it's a crime because the great plays of history, going all the way back to the Greeks, are part of everybody's heritage. It's just like in music, Beethoven or Mozart, that's everybody's heritage. ↗

— Tony Randall

#because #beethoven #crime #everybody #going

The odds against an adoptee ending up as the child of the President of the United States are staggering. But then, so are the odds against a movie star becoming president. ↗

— Michael Reagan

#becoming #child #ending #movie #movie star

It makes a difference what we choose to experience during sleep. Many of us think of sleep as a chance to get away from it all. But sleep is also a chance to return to the joys of our spiritual heritage - our universal awareness. ↗

— Henry Reed

#awareness #away #chance #choose #difference

I often want to cry. That is the only advantage women have over men - at least they can cry. ↗

— Jean Rhys

#cry #i #least #men #often

Performing on stage is what I've done since I was a kid and it's where the passion that has started from the very beginning for me, and that's what I'm going to enjoy. ↗

— Haley Reinhart

#done #enjoy #going #i #kid

Did you know I staged the first performance in America of At the Hawk's Well? ↗

— Kenneth Rexroth

#did #first #hawk #i #know

We live in the country, and I have a huge library there. When we go to London for the winter I never know which books to take. I never know what I am going to need. That's the only disadvantage. ↗

— Mordecai Richler

#books #country #disadvantage #go #going

They played Boston. They played at the Boston Tea Party and through an amazing chain of events I got to hang out with them backstage even though I was underage. ↗

— Jonathan Richman

#backstage #boston #chain #even #events