There's nothing in this world so sweet as love. And next to love the sweetest thing is hate.
Geddy once joked, 'You're the only guy I know who rehearses to rehearse!
I have come to believe that anger and grudges are burning embers in the heart.
I will choose a path that's clear, I will choose freewill.
When I was young, my ambitions were very modest. I thought, "If only I could play at the battle of the bands at the Y, that would be the culmination of existence!"
As crises came up later on - "Oh, we have to compromise, and the record company wants to do this," I'd be like, "No, I don't have to. "
I had spindly little ankles, and growing up in Canada, I couldn't skate. I was no good at any sports so was very much a pariah through those adolescent years.
Hope is what happens when a wound starts to heal; Whether skin-deep or soul-deep, you begin to feel real.
Whether we like it or not, quantification in history is here to stay for reasons which the quantifiers themselves might not actively approve. We are becoming a numerate society: almost instinctively there seems now to be a greater degree of truth in evidence expressed numerically than in any literary evidence, no matter how shaky the statistical evidence, or acute the observing eye.
Just how could a nation often be great if it's bread tastes want Kleenex.
All truths are old, and all that we have to do is recognize and utter them anew.