#tear

Well, we ought to be stirred, even to tears, by society's ills. ↗

— George McGovern

#ills #ought #society #stirred #tears

Christmas carols always brought tears to my eyes. I also cry at weddings. I should have cried at a couple of my own. ↗

— Ethel Merman

#also #always #brought #christmas #couple

I always try to balance the light with the heavy - a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes. ↗

— Bette Midler

#balance #few #fringes #heavy #human

Red Skelton... I broke into tears when I met him. ↗

— Rip Taylor

#him #i #into #met #red

It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury. ↗

— Thomas Moore

#luxury #only #tears

When one tears away the veils and shows them naked, people's souls give off such a pungent smell of decay. ↗

— Octave Mirbeau

#decay #give #naked #off #people

The most efficient water power in the world - women's tears. ↗

— Wilson Mizner

#most #power #tears #water #women

The office of drama is to exercise, possibly to exhaust, human emotions. The purpose of comedy is to tickle those emotions into an expression of light relief; of tragedy, to wound them and bring the relief of tears. Disgust and terror are the other points of the compass. ↗

— Laurence Olivier

#comedy #compass #disgust #drama #emotions

I believe in things that move people, if the audience isn't deeply caught up and moved to either laughter or tears then I don't think it is theater. ↗

— Estelle Parsons

#believe #caught #deeply #either #i

When I was flying to Rome, we flew over London; I felt like bursting into tears. It's part of me, so I can't leave London behind for good. ↗

— Robert Pattinson

#bursting #felt #flew #flying #good