“What isn't said is as important as what is said.”
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Thoughtful Quotes — page 121 of 303
“Every thoughtful pin on pinterest has beauty. But not everyone can see.”
“Ceremonies are the first thing to be attended to in the practice of government.”
“If what one has to say is not better than silence, then one should keep silent.”
“My daddy used to tell me not to chew on somethin that was eatin you.”
“It's not that I don't want to be a beauty, that I don't yearn to be dripping with glamour. It's just that I can't see how any woman can find time to do to herself all the things that must apparently be done to make herself beautiful and, having once done them, how anyone without the strength of mind of a foreign missionary can keep up such a regime.”
“It takes time for people to get to know a cause or an organization.”
“One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.”
“When I read Dickens for the first time, I thought he was Jewish, because he wrote about oppression and bigotry, all the things that my father talked about.”
“I set a rule that people weren't allowed to send good news unless they sent around an equal amount of bad news. We had to get a balanced picture. In fact, I kind of favored just hearing about the accounts we were losing because ... bad news is generally more actionable than good news.”
“The tablet is not mainstream. Reading off the screen is not mainstream.”
“Reverend Fathers, my letters did not usually follow each other at such close intervals, nor were they so long.... This one would not be so long had I but the leisure to make it shorter.”
“Mediocrity makes the most of its native possessions.”
“The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.”
“It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have all one wants.”
“Our notion of symmetry is derived form the human face. Hence, we demand symmetry horizontally and in breadth only, not vertically nor in depth.”
“How vain painting is, exciting admiration by its resemblance to things of which we do not admire the originals.”
“I don't think college is for everyone. School is awesome, but for me, I was learning a lot more outside the classroom in the real world than I was in school.”
“The selective memory isn't selective enough.”
“Rod's a great singer. He's got a great voice, but there's no point to put a 30-piece orchestra behind him. I'm not going to knock anybody's right to make a living but you can always tell if somebody's heart and soul is into something, and I didn't think Rod was into it in that way.”