One writes a poem when one is so taken up by an emotional concept that one is unable to remain silent.
One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.
Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture....
We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are.
That's what they should teach us here. How girls' brains work... It would be more useful than divination, anyway...
For our Hogwarts is in danger from external, deadly foes And we must unite inside her or we'll crumble from within
All those poor elves I haven’t set free yet, having to stay over during Christmas because there aren’t enough hats!
Yeah, Quirrell was a great teacher. There was just that minor drawback of him having Lord Voldemort sticking out of the back of his head!
Harry, we saw Uranus up close!” said Ron, still giggling feebly. “Get it, Harry? We saw Uranus — ha ha ha —
Just because you’re allowed to use magic now you don’t have to whip your wands out for every tiny little thing!
There is no shame in what you are feeling, Harry,' said Dumbledore's voice. 'On the contrary... the fact that you can feel pain like this is your greatest strength.
Suffering is tossed by handfuls over the multitudes, with most of it falling on some people and little or none of it on others.
Gar taldin ni jaonyc; gar sa buir, ori'wadaasla. (Nobody cares who your father was, only the father you'll be.) - Mandalorian saying
Which is more valuable into showing how I think: the order I think of things, or the order in which I arrange them once I’ve thought of them?
And the more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
Once you stop being locked into viewing reality from just one perspective, you will start to be free from habitual reactivity.
I ordered a beer and then I ordered another beer, because why finish one when I can finish two? Having only one is great for love, but bad for beer.
I restrain myself from following orders—especially restraining orders. I’d like to remind my dad that my love is longer than 500 feet.
I do build my own backstory as an actor. It's important to know where your characters have come from in order to know where they're going - in order to exist in that state of being.
The Resistance is a moral certainty, not a poetic one. The true poet never uses words in order to punish someone. His judgment belongs to a creative order; it is not formulated as a prophetic scripture.
Not even a superpower can hold onto its economic sovereignty if it fails to get its fiscal house in order, and no one needs a well-regulated international economic order more than the United States.
