"Donâ€™t try to capture a man in one synthetic portrait, but rather in lots of snapshots taken at different times and in different circumstances."

-- Alexander Rodchenko

#Taken Quotes #Men Quotes #Trying Quotes

“Dear Lord, make me a better parent. Teach me to understand my children, to listen patiently to what they have to say and to answer all their questions kindly. Keep me from interrupting them, talking back to them, and contradicting them. Make me as courteous to them as I would have them to be to me.”
“Time travel is such a magic concept.”
“Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.”

Source : Charles Dickens (1881). “Great Expectations”, p.525
“We Latins make splendid lovers and splendid older men.”
“Honor to those who in the life they lead define and guard a Thermopylae. Never betraying what is right, consistent and just in all they do but showing pity also, and compassion; generous when they are rich, and when they are poor, still generous in small ways, still helping as much as they can; always speaking the truth, yet without hating those who lie. And even more honor is due to them when they foresee (as many do foresee) that in the end Ephialtis will make his appearance, that the Medes will break through after all.”

Source : Constantine P. Cavafy, “Thermopylae”
“To the divisive forces that would take freedom away, I want to tell you something: You can have my gun. You can pry it from my cold dead hands!”
“I've always done what I thought was good if I could live on what they were offering-and sometimes if I couldn't. So even when I was broke, my career didn't lack for interest.”
“I'm very comfortable with the nature of life and death, and that we come to an end. What's most difficult to imagine is that those dreams and early yearnings and desires of childhood and adolescence will also disappear. But who knows? Maybe you become part of the eternal whatever.”

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