"If each of my words were a drop of water, you would see through them and glimpse what I feel: gratitude, acknowledgement."

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Octavio Paz

#Thank You Quotes #Gratitude Quotes #Water Quotes

“Sometimes being a dad is like watching a ping-pong match.”

Source : "Big Daddy's Rules: Raising Daughters Is Tougher Than I Look". Book by Steve Schirripa, www.today.com. 2013.
“I feel like Iâ€™m living in a prison. There are so many things I may not experience. I cannot go swimming, canâ€™t visit relatives, canâ€™t get a job, canâ€™t have a boyfriend. I see so much of life I cannot have. I am living in a veritable prison.”
“In 'Tintin,' it's like a live-action role. You're living and breathing and making decisions for that character from page 1 to page 120, the whole emotional arc. In an animated movie, it's a committee decision. There are 50 people creating that character. You're responsible for a small part.”
“What I've found about it is that there are some folks you can talk to until you're blue in the face--they're never going to get it and they're never going to change. But every once in a while, you'll run into someone who is eager to listen, eager to learn, and willing to try new things. Those are the people we need to reach. We have a responsibility as parents, older people, teachers, people in the neighborhood to recognize that.”
“I don't like to lose, and that isn't so much because it is just a football game, but because defeat means the failure to reach your objective. I don't want a football player who doesn't take defeat to heart, who laughs it off with the thought, "Oh, well, there's another Saturday." The trouble in American life today, in business as well as in sports, is that too many people are afraid of competition. The result is that in some circles people have come to sneer at success if it costs hard work and training and sacrifice.”
“All stress comes from resisting what is.”
“It is a common mistake in going to war to begin at the wrong end, to act first, and wait for disasters to discuss the matter.”
“I didn't say that the Jews are inferior. I didn't even maintain they are a race. I merely saw that the mixture of different cultures didn't work.”

Source : "Nuremberg Diary". Book by by G. M. Gilbert, p. 120, 1995.

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