“You I am sure will forgive me for sincerely remarking that you might curb your magnanimity and be more of an artist, and 'load every rift' of your subject with ore.”
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Thoughtful Quotes — page 13 of 303
“It would be wrong to put friendship before the truth.”
“I call on those that call me son, Grandson, or great-grandson, On uncles, aunts, great-uncles or great-aunts, To judge what I have done. Have I, that put it into words, Spoilt what old loins have sent?”
“I think there ought to be some serious discussion by smart people, really smart people, about whether or not proliferation of things like The Smoking Gun and TMZ and YouTube and the whole celebrity culture is healthy.”
“Life is not a matter of milestones, but moments.”
“I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word - politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit.”
“You can take for granted that people know more or less what a street, a shop, a beach, a sky, an oak tree look like. Tell them what makes this one different.”
“A liberal: someone who thinks he knows more about your experience than you do.”
“I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man.”
“There is large difference between indolent impatience of labor and intellectual impatience of delay, large difference between leaving things unfinished because we have more to do or because we are satisfied with what we have done.”
“Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.”
“No two on earth in all things can agree; All have some darling singularity; Women and men, as well as girls and boys, In gewgaws take delight, and sigh for toys, Your sceptres and your crowns, and such like things, Are but a better kind of toys for kings. In things indifferent reason bids us choose, Whether the whim's a monkey or a muse.”
“For me, thats one of the important things about cooking. What was good enough yesterday may not be good enough today.”
“In small towns people scent the wind with noses of uncommon keenness.”
“Personality is lower than partiality.”
“Every time we speak, we choose and use one of four basic communication styles: assertive, aggressive, passive and passive-aggressive.”
“Our primary function is to create an emotion and our secondary function is to sustain that emotions.”
“It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, 'I don't know.'”
“Do my movement and my thinking have an intimate connection? First of all, I don't think my body doesn't think.”
“If what you want to tell me is neither True nor Good nor even Useful, why tell it to me at all”