#tears

Sidney Poitier, who is class personified, said: 'Lou, you're a leading man because you're a good actor.' Brought tears to my eyes. ↗

— Lou Diamond Phillips

#because #brought #class #eyes #good

If it were possible to cure evils by lamentation and to raise the dead with tears, then gold would be a less valuable thing than weeping. ↗

— Sophocles

#dead #evils #gold #lamentation #less

Tears may be dried up, but the heart - never. ↗

— Marguerite Gardiner

#heart #may #never #tears #up

Screaming at children over their grades, especially to the point of the child's tears, is child abuse, pure and simple. It's not funny and it's not good parenting. It is a crushing, scarring, disastrous experience for the child. It isn't the least bit funny. ↗

— Ben Stein

#bit #child #child abuse #children #crushing

Tears at times have the weight of speech. ↗

— Ovid

#tears #times #weight

If the world's a veil of tears, Smile till rainbows span it. ↗

— Lucy Larcom

#rainbows #span #tears #till #veil

He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music. ↗

— James Joyce

#music #tears #words #beauty

I don’t cry for humans. I cry for things that are so beautiful I just can’t stand it, like Bonnie in front of me, all crusty from rolling in the sand, with a mouthful of half-chewed hay and eyes that knew everything I’d ever thought or felt or been. ↗

— Judith Tarr

#tears #beauty

The night I started playing your CD out loud for you, instead of playing it through my headphones?" Now this made my eyebrows rise. "You listened to it before that night?" "Every night. I've listened to it every single night since you gave it to me. ↗

— Kimberly Lauren

#beauty

Man cries, his tears dry up and run out. So he becomes a devil, reduced to a monster. ↗

— Kohta Hirano

#desperation #good-and-bad #good-and-evil #grief #hopelessness