“Your responsibility as a parent is not as great as you might imagine. You need not supply the world with the next conqueror of disease or major motion picture star. If your child simply grows up to be someone who does not use the word "collectible" as a noun, you can consider yourself an unqualified success.”
Thoughtful feeling
Thoughtful Quotes — page 12 of 303
“Talking, talking. Spinning a web of words, pale walls of dreams, between myself and all I see.”
“When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.”
“I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai.”
“She waited for the train to pass. Then she said, "I sometimes think that people’s hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows what’s at the bottom. All you can do is imagine by what comes floating to the surface every once in a while.”
“Before you speak, make certain you have something worthwhile to say.”
“I see no point in reading.”
“When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say.”
“I may not have married for very sound reasons, but money was the least of them.”
“People talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations.”
“I don't want everybody to see exactly where I live, what my sofa or my fireplace looks like.”
“Judge not thy friend until thou standest in his place.”
“In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.”
“Treacherous people do not last only memories of their treason last.So will it last with emotions mixed, of love and hate for treacherous ones.”
“But Italy is not an intellectual country. On the subway in Tokyo everybody reads. In Italy, they don't. Don't evaluate Italy from the fact that it produced Raphael and Michelangelo.”
“A room without books is like a life without meaning.”
“Saying goodbye doesn't mean anything. It's the time we spent together that matters, not how we left it.”
“Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.”
“It isn’t what the book costs. It’s what it will cost you if you don’t read it.”
“The shy man will not learn; the impatient man should not teach.”