#tears

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

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

— Rip Taylor

#him #i #into #met #red

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

I think you have to pay for love with bitter tears. ↗

— Edith Piaf

#i #i think #love #pay #tears

Before the reward there must be labor. You plant before you harvest. You sow in tears before you reap joy. ↗

— Ralph Ransom

#harvest #joy #labor #must #plant

The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#obtained #pleasures #poor #tears

Most blacks will argue that they excel because of hard work, because of intellect, determination, sweat, blood, tears and risk. ↗