We have to learn that not everyone deserves our tears. You have to do the right thing even if someone mocks you.
When you see grown men near to tears because they’ve missed hitting a little white ball into a hole from three feet, it makes you laugh.
I always try to balance the light with the heavy – a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.
Tears for Fears is me and Roland.
Shinji Kagawa is one of the best players in the world, and he now plays 20 minutes at Manchester United – on the left wing! My heart breaks. Really, I have tears in my eyes. Central midfield is Shinji’s best role.
There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath.
Tears are the summer showers to the soul.
I don’t watch ‘The X Factor’ any more. Why do I want to see someone say the same old thing – it’s all they’ve ever dreamed about – then lose and burst into tears and go into neurosis? They just want to be famous – it doesn’t matter how.
They’re not willing to admit that I’ve also shed blood and tears and often paid dearly for my success. This makes me feel extremely sad.
In film, there’s always this looking for the ‘If you lay down and burst into tears, you did a good job.’
Characters die all the time. At times, they die amongst a reader’s tears, and at others, amongst the applause, and some, still, in quiet satisfaction.
A major final to a tennis player is sacred ground. Short of any type of serious injury – soft-tissue tears, serious orthopedic injuries or a major illness like throwing up, dehydration or cramping – you keep going, especially in the final of a Slam.
If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.
Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle of his freedom from responsibility and must therefore reckon with the most vehement resistance.
I get bored with the constant probing for the cliched tears of the clown, the dark side of the comic.
Tears For Fears is my ultimate passion.
I had a Spider-man costume when I was about three, and I lost the mask. So I went to the underwear drawer and put a pair of red pants on my head. My dad came home and just laughed, and I ran into my room and burst into tears.
Before the reward there must be labor. You plant before you harvest. You sow in tears before you reap joy.
Anytime James Carville, Paul Begala and David Axelrod hold hands and jump for joy, it’s worth pondering how to turn their joy into tears.
November is Native American Heritage month, and a good time to honor the legacy of our ancestors, but every day we should stop to think about our country’s beginning and that the United States would not exist if not for a great deal of sacrifice, blood, and tears by Indian Tribes across the country.
I cry very easily. It can be a movie, a phone conversation, a sunset – tears are words waiting to be written.
I don’t know why people are so surprised by my live performances. My approach is so simple; every song I sing, every story I tell, every move I make, must move the audience to laughter, tears or inspiration. Otherwise, why should I do it?
When I think of CeeLo Green, I think about previous collaborations, like ‘Tears of Joy.’
Anger tears me up inside… My own… or anyone else’s.
Two aged men, that had been foes for life, Met by a grave, and wept – and in those tears They washed away the memory of their strife; Then wept again the loss of all those years.
Pitching… sometimes I did so poorly, it brought me to tears.
I’ve got a terrible crush on someone and last week mum was coaching me – it was a real masterclass – on how to very casually say hello to him. I had to talk to her hand. Tears were pouring down our faces.
I’ve always been a fan of melody and emotional melancholy, whether it was Rites of Spring or Tears for Fears or Neil Young. If I hear a song that has a sweet melody, I’m a sucker for it, whether it’s Linkin Park or Little Richard.
All the energy, all the pain, sweat and tears that go into it, the amount I had to put in to get me to where I had to play, it was more taxing on me physically and mentally than it was good for me.
One Roman Catholic School I will never forget. They sang a song to receive me. Part of the words were, ‘Thank you, Lord, for giving us Terry.’ It was beautiful; it really brought tears to my eyes.
We used to have skunks that would go under our house and scratch their backs. I remember after I had my first baby, I didn’t really have many friends, but I got invited to a dinner with a group of people from town. We all took the same vehicle, and I got in, and someone goes, ‘I smell skunk.’ I had to fight back tears.
More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.
I am Amaxon Corazon Junia Principia Delgado the Third, and I bent over my meal and wept luxurious tears into my green banana porridge. It was a perfect decoction, and it now would not satisfy me.
I just don’t believe in abortion, period. But I would never take away a woman’s right to choose what’s good for her body. But I still believe that when you do have an abortion, still inside, you go through a lot of stuff. It tears away at your spirit and your soul. So I don’t think people think about that.
In school, I had a tough time fitting in, and dancing was my way of being in my own element. As a teenager, I became a bit disillusioned with it. Even with competitions, I’d win, but still there would be tears.
I had tears when the first look from ‘Hero’ was released.
A woman came up to me after one of the screenings with tears pouring down her face and sobbed, You’ve defined my entire life for me on the screen.
If I had a superpower, it would be to teleport. The idea of seeing the world in one day is exciting, but the thought of not checking bags almost moves me to tears.
When I first started playing team sports, I was a little too sweet for my own good. I’d be in tears because I wasn’t doing well. But the healthy competition really toughened me up.
No one – apart from my agent, perhaps – should leave one of my shows in tears.
Sometimes there’s that perfect moment when the crowd, the music, the energy of the room come together in a way that brings me to tears.
Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.
Imagine no more tears, no more sorrow, no more pain… and one day we will forever be with Jesus.
Many hotels, I just sat there and – I call it the silent scream – I don’t know why, you just sit there, and tears will just come down, and you’ll just sit there for hours, man. There’s no place to turn, and when you do turn, who cares? You’re just a dumb professional wrestler.
People watched launches and tears ran down their faces, and then their kids would go jump into an encyclopedia or look online and read about rocket science. That’s power.
Oh, there’s a lot of breaks in our sport. Strained muscles, breaks, tears. I’ve seen teeth fly out before mouth guards were compulsory. Feet fractures are quite common, cheeks, faces, jaws, legs.
Smiles, tears, of all my life! – and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.
If you take the hard facts of a failed relationship, it’s pretty grim. But if you make an album out of it, and if the violins represent all the tears, you create something magical out of something very normal.
I’m just constantly on the verge of bursting into tears with joy.
My grandmother, grandfather, my mom – we’ve always been driven by laughter. It’s what held us together. Thanksgivings, any kind of family get-together, we usually end up in tears.
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.
When Alexander of Macedon was 33, he cried salt tears because there were no more worlds to conquer. Eric Bristow is only 27.
Baseball is not a lot of statistics to me. It’s blood and tears.
If you want to love a person, you should know that there are tears, and there can even be hatred inside of it. I think a love really includes all of that.
I remember playing games and having tears roll down my face because it felt like it was never going to be good enough.
On ‘Made In Chelsea’ there are cameras in my face and some days I think, ‘I can’t go to filming today,’ but I just have to dry my tears and pull myself together.
The tears I have cried over Germany have dried. I have washed my face.
Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.
I think the mistake people make most often when they invest in other kinds of startups is they say, ‘This is totally different.’ And so the things that matter, like making a product that people desperately want, like talking to customers, they throw this out the window. That is a recipe for heartache and tears.
One night I’d had some beers, and then I Googled myself and spent the night in tears.
Like the women in my family, I’ve found the women in my lab a hard-nosed, ambitious lot who have gone on to be faculty members at top universities. In my own family, it is my father who is prone to bursting into tears.
You know what happens if I walk out on the stage in Montreal? They stand up and they cheer for three or four minutes. It just brings tears to your eyes, because it’s a love affair.
