"The English people, a lot of them, would not be able to understand a word of spoken Shakespeare. There are people who do and I'm not denying they exist. But it's a far more philistine country than people think."

-- Colin Firth

#Country Quotes #Thinking Quotes #People Quotes

“Don't tell people you care about them when all you really care about is getting your own way.”

Source : Carol Plum-Ucci (2002). “What Happened to Lani Garver”, p.233, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“That's what it is to love someone: to give whatever you can while taking what you must.”
“If our country's choice is to be a Great Power, Russia will be the great power not because of the nuclear potential, not because of faith in God or president, or western investments but thanks to the labor of the nation, faith in Knowledge and Science and thanks to the maintenance and development of scientific potential and education.”

Source : "Zhores I. Alferov - Biographical". www.nobelprize.org. 2000.
“In a world gone mad, only a lunatic is truly insane.”
“All good poets of the past, almost without exception, were at least bilingual if not trilingual.”
“Ideals survive through change. They die through inertia in the face of challenge.”
“We should all know this: that listening is not talking; [it] is the gifted and great role and the imaginative role. And the true listener is much more beloved, magnetic than the talker, and he is more effective, and learns more and does more good. And so try listening. Listen to your wife, your husband, your father, your mother, your children, your friends; to those who love you and those who don't, to those who bore you, to your enemies. It will work a small miracle. And perhaps a great one.”
“I love life. There's always something to overcome, new people to meet... You've just got to find your bliss and go after it. That's where the drive is, that's how you find your special place.”

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