Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.
I don’t want to sound like you never feel anything – we’ve all loved and lost, all had a lot of pain, and we’re supposed to. We’re humans; it’s the way it works. But it’s how you manage it, how you manage those tears and that pain. How you are able to get yourself out of it.
Nothing but a miracle of sovereign mercy could have arrested and saved me from eternal perdition. How I could have so long resisted the entreaties, the prayers, and the tears of my dear parents, and the influences of the Holy Spirit, is, to me, a wonder entirely incomprehensible.
‘The Joy Luck Club’ is not a perfect film. But, I distinctly remember watching it with my mom – and bursting into tears after the screening!
Tears are the silent language of grief.
The price of championships will never change. It’s been set long before me. It will be the same long after me. That price is hard work, sweat, blood, tears, fatigue and exhaustion and doing so much more than what is required of you.
Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
I believe the National Park Service has demonstrated strong partnerships geared towards respecting the private property of citizens in its administering of the current Trail of Tears National Historic Trail and will continue to do so upon the addition of the routes.
I shine in tears like the sun in April.
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.
A movie can and should have some real dissonance throughout – rage, heartache, tears, conflict, catharsis and all the other elements Aristotle demanded of a good story – but the chord has to be resolved.
I am not unaware of the saying that more tears have been shed over wishes granted than wishes denied.
It literally brings me to tears when Sara Ramirez sings. She’s unbelievable.
I heard heart wrenching stories about fans who had tickets for the 1980 show in Montreal, the first concert that didn’t happen, when my dad died. They’d be in tears. It was hard to deal with sometimes.
The first real Cassini image that brought tears to my eyes was an image of Jupiter. I didn’t expect it to look so detailed.
The first time I had sat down to a meal I had grown on my own, along with a bottle of wine that we had made, I burst into tears. To be in touch and be in tune with that is an extraordinary gift.
‘Cover Me.’ ‘Take Time To Know Her.’ ‘Warm and Tender Love.’ ‘Out Of Left Field.’ ‘Dark End Of The Street.’ ‘Tears Me Up.’ ‘My Special Prayer.’ All points back to one song. ‘When A Man Loves A Woman.’ The Grand-daddy to all of my songs. The boss of all of my songs. I have great respect for that song. Always will.
The book of female logic is blotted all over with tears, and Justice in their courts is forever in a passion.
There is no word for feeling nostalgic about the future, but that’s what a parent’s tears often are, a nostalgia for something that has not yet occurred. They are the pain of hope, the helplessness of hope, and finally, the surrender to hope.
I’ve had to walk through a lot of my tears.
I adore art… when I am alone with my notes, my heart pounds and the tears stream from my eyes, and my emotion and my joys are too much to bear.
At 49, I find it a little bit difficult to run these days. I’ve got grade four tears in both Achilles, shin splints, I got no cartilage the toes in my right foot, I’ve got bone marrow edemas under both knees, I’ve got one degenerating hip – that’s the problem you get.
Dealing with wedding stuff is a bit of a double-edged sword – it seems that divorcees are expected to either burn it all on the front lawn, tears silently coursing down their faces, or keep the stuff, shrine-like, concealed somewhere in their homes.
I do not weep: I loathe tears, for they are a sign of slavery.
In general, I think people are worried about saying the wrong thing to any grieving person. On a very basic level, I think they’re frightened of touching off tears or sorrow, as though someone tearing up at the mention of unhappy news would be the mentioner’s fault.
I try to bring the audience’s own drama – tears and laughter they know about – to them.
Within a safe environment, the theater, you can have a big ride, big ups and downs, intensity, warmth, humanity, laughs, tears – you want that full range of emotion.
Don’t shed any tears for me. I got to live a dream most people don’t get to live.
Preventing liquidation of an unbalanced market will leave you in tears.
When I was very little, I insisted on getting my own pair of heels. And no, the screaming and tears didn’t help me get them until I was much older!
It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.
If a man, for private profit, tears at the public news, does so with the impatience of one who thinks he actually owns the news you get, it is against the national interest.
My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away.
I’ve had two platinum albums. I have worked with thousands of people. But the most rewarding feeling is to see people on Twitter say, ‘Do you see what Dawn and them are doing? They are number one.’ It’s the most rewarding feeling because of all the tears, all the bad stuff, and the people that said I couldn’t do it.
A song like ‘Tears Dry on Their Own’ is really sad, but it’s hopeful, too – that was my theme song for the first boy who broke my heart.
The Chinese seemed to be mourning Mao in a heartfelt fashion. But I wondered how many of their tears were genuine. People had practiced acting to such a degree that they confused it with their true feelings.
My tolerance for tears is very little when you’re beautiful and crying over nothing.
I really think you get the jobs you’re supposed to get. And don’t stress over the jobs that you don’t. That would have saved me so many tears and so much frustration.
My daughters prefer Tears for Fears songs as they’re more upbeat and generic. Dad’s songs are ‘a little too sad’ for them, which just means that they’re harder to understand.
Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.
The recipe to an unhappy life in Japan is to want to be Japanese if you are not. Anyone who wants to penetrate the country is setting themselves up for tears and disappointment.
I’m an American songbook guy, though I’ve got eclectic tastes. I really love the American songbook. I’ve taken up the ukulele, and so you can play ‘Five Foot Two’ and Hawaiian music, but you can also do some of the great tunes, like ‘You Go to My Head,’ ‘I Guess I’ll Hang My Tears Out to Dry,’ ‘Taking a Chance on Love.’
In Paris, everything’s for sale: wise virgins, foolish virgins, truth and lies, tears and smiles.
The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.
I’d drown in a sea of tears if I lived my life ruminating on the past. I would undoubtedly revise memories to be more joyful that they were, or ever have been.
I figured out that I could think of my childhood dog that had died, and I could bring myself to tears. So I used that poor dead dog for several years until it just didn’t work anymore, and I had to find something else.
I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.
And I just remember, you know, breaking into tears and feeling so empty because, as long as Elvis was in the world, you always knew something was going and he always had something that kept everybody mesmerized.
One of the weirdest things about Christmas in this country is that people love to watch ‘EastEnders’ when everyone’s in floods of tears and there’s a huge row. I don’t know if watching it makes them feel better about their own day. Personally, I would rather try to be a bit more positive!
When I talk to another Afghan I am his or her equal and that moves me to tears.
At things like DragWorld and Drag Con, you see young people come out in droves and be moved to tears, or hear their stories about how they found strength in what we do.
Gold medals are made out of your sweat, blood and tears, and effort in the gym every day, and sacrificing a lot.
Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.
When I first found out that I was an Idol finalist, I cried tears of happiness. I was just so happy, and my family was there and the fact that got to see that moment and share that moment with me was just everything to me.
The Trail of Tears has a great deal of meaning for every person of American Indian ancestry, whether they are Cherokee or not. For me, it has always stood for what is best and worst about the history of the United States.
