“Yeah, well," I say, "I left Abnegation because I wasn't selfless enough, no matter how hard I tried to be." "That's not entirely true." He smiles at me. "That girl who let someone throw knives at her to spare a friend, who hit my dad with a belt to protect me-that selfless girl, that's not you?"... "You've been paying close attention, haven't you?" "I like to observe people/" "Maybe you were cut out for Candor, Four, because you're a terrible liar.”
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Thoughtful Quotes — page 15 of 303
“We are of different opinions at different hours, but we always may be said to be at heart on the side of truth.”
“I thought that subtitles are boring because they're there generally to serve us with information to make you understand what people are saying in a different language.”
“Sometimes I sit and look at life from a different angle.”
“Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.”
“If two people have the same opinion, one is unnecessary. ... I don't want to talk, to communicate, with someone who agrees with me; I want to communicate with you because you see it differently. I value that difference.”
“I'm not sure that acting is something for a grown man to be doing.”
“When you notice a fault in your neighbour, search for the same in yourself.”
“The purpose of a work of fiction is to appeal to the lingering after-effects in the reader's mind as differing from, say, the purpose of oratory or philosophy which respectively leave people in a fighting or thoughtful mood.”
“When you learn, teach. When you get, give. Maya Angelou taught me that.”
“I think what a lot of action movies lose these days, especially the ones that deal with fantasy, is you stop caring at some point because you've lost human scale.”
“I praticed making faces in the mirror and it would drive my mother crazy. She used to scare me by saying that I was going to see the devil if I kept looking in the mirror. That fascinated me even more, of course.”
“Forget that blind ambition, and learn to trust your intuition.”
“They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience.”
“Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop him up.”
“We read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the author.”
“Mediocrity is underrated.”
“You know, when people talk about filmmaking and the techniques of filmmaking, we use them all the time in network television news in order to make our stories simpler, tighter and more understandable to the general public.”
“Let's never try to get even with our enemies, because if we do we will hurt ourselves far more than we hurt them. Let's do as General Eisenhower does: let's never waste a minute thinking about people we don't like.”
“No two persons ever read the same book.”