“Which, the first meeting with anybody is, you know, everybody is on their best behavior. It's only after you get to know them for a while that you figure out.”
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Thoughtful Quotes — page 124 of 303
“One man is more concerned with the impression he makes on the rest of mankind, another with the impression the rest of mankind makes on him.”
“Reading the play at home, however fulfilling, can never be the vivacious experience that Shakespeare intended.”
“I don't believe in professional dissidents. I think it's just a phase, like adolescence.”
“I think now that the great thing is not so much the formulation of an answer for myself, for the theatre, or the play - but rather the most accurate possible statement of the problem.”
“"I should have more faith," he said; "I ought to know by this time that when a fact appears opposed to a long train of deductions it invariably proves to be capable of bearing some other interpretation."”
“We're more than just our job titles or our list of professional accomplishments.”
“A lot of women make choices based on how they saw their mother's choices working out, how they saw the choices of the women elders in their lives working out. There's some rebellion in that, but there's also some deep reflection.”
“~Sometimes, when I want to take on the world, I try to remember that it's just as important to sit down and ask my son how he's feeling or talk to him about life.~”
“Taste and elegance, though they are reckoned only among the smaller and secondary morals, yet are of no mean importance in the regulations of life. A moral taste is not of force to turn vice into virtue; but it recommends virtue with something like the blandishments of pleasure, and it infinitely abates the evils of vice.”
“Some decent regulated pre-eminence, some preference (not exclusive appropriation) given to birth, is neither unnatural, nor unjust, nor impolite.”
“We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.”
“The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.”
“I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.”
“The passing moment is all we can be sure of; it is only common sense to extract its utmost value from it.”
“I think I was a little disappointed in her. I expected then people to be more of a piece than I do now, and I was distressed to find so much vindictiveness in so charming a creature. I did not realize how motley are the qualities that go to make up a human being. Now I am well aware that pettiness and grandeur, malice and charity, hatred and love, can find place side by side in the same human heart.”
“It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic. - Of Human Bondage”
“I thought some of Mrs. White's material was prophetic. I felt some of her insights were extremely helpful and I regarded her as a sister in the Lord. I wasn't out to attack Ellen White's character.”
“I would say it's more important who the treasury secretary is than who the vice president is. If you want to have a debate here, I'd like a debate between potential treasury secretaries than the vice presidential debate.”
“You ought to be able to explain why you’re taking the job you’re taking, why you’re making the investment you’re making, or whatever it may be. And if it can’t stand applying pencil to paper, you’d better think it through some more. And if you can’t write an intelligent answer to those questions, don’t do it.”