"Conversation doesnâ€™t have to lead to consensus about anything especially not values; itâ€™s enough that it helps people get used to one another"

-- Kwame Anthony Appiah

#People Quotes #Helping Quotes #Enough Quotes

“I've done all the other kind of production work on films than directing really badly. That is the truth. It's made me a better director because I feel like directing is the only thing I can really do.”

Source : Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com
“And when you love a book, commit one glorious sentence of it-perhaps your favorite sentence-to memory. That way you won't forget the language of the story that moved you to tears.”

Source : John Irving (2012). “In One Person: A Novel”, p.41, Simon and Schuster
“During the last times, men will be lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God. When you think of our sports-driven society, and our media-driven society, and our leisure-driven society, then you understand we are living in the last days.”
“The optimist, as you probably know, is a person who, when he wears out his shoes, just figures he's back on his feet.”

Source : Hartman Rector, Jr. (2011). “Already to Harvest”, p.23, Cedar Fort
“Tyranny is always weakness”

Source : James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.32
“One trait in the philosopher's character we can assume is his love of the knowledge that reveals eternal reality, the realm unaffected by change and decay. He is in love with the whole of that reality, and will not willingly be deprived even of the most insignificant fragment of it - just like the lovers and men of ambition we described earlier on.”
“I saw Dad's eyes widen just a fraction when he heard my voice catch. He glanced at me but quickly turned away. He didn't want me to see his reaction, but I did, and I'll never forget it. In that brief glimpse, I could see what he was thinking behind that fixed stare. There would be no grandkids, there would be no more Creed family bloodline, nothing else to look forward to. From that point on I'd become the last, most devastating disappointment in what he thought his life had added up to--one overwhelming failure.”

Source : Perry Moore (2007). “Hero”, Disney-Hyperion
“If you say something that is a little unsafe to say but you feel strongly and passionate about it, a lot of people can attack you and call you a bad role model just because they don't agree with your views, but in reality we're all different and we're all unique in our own way and we all have different thoughts.”

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