“In the uncertain ebb and flow of time and emotions much of one's life history is etched in the senses.”
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Thoughtful Quotes — page 151 of 303
“This book [Dreams from My Father] was more of a reflection on my public life, now as a U.S. senator and before that as a state senator; how my perspectives around the issues of the day are shaped by my background.”
“People need to remember we are the governing party because we have diversity of opinion in our party. We're not pure. We have moderates and we have more progressives.”
“What did i know of your fantasies? Why do we know so little about the fantasies of our parents? What do we know of somebody if we know nothing of the images passed to him by his imagination?”
“To live for the moment: it sounds so right and so beautiful. But the more I want to, the less I understand what it means.”
“There is always a right moment to stop something.”
“We always try to interpret things in accordance with what we want and not as they are.”
“We are what we do, and not what we think we must do.”
“I don't want to direct. I have no directing ambition whatsoever. And as long as I meet filmmakers like Tom Hooper, Stephen Frears, and others who allow that collaboration, I can't see why I would ever want to direct.”
“I am not very introspective.”
“One must choose in all things a mean just and good.”
“So tutor youth that the sins of age be not imputed to thee.”
“It's the age-old battle between mind and heart, which seldom want the same thing.”
“Most of us have very clear memories of the self-critical internal conversation running on in our heads while we were playing poorly, and yet it often seems that we hardly remember noticing it at all while we were playing well.”
“And me, myself personally, in order for there to be any kind of longevity there's gotta be some history.”
“Let a man once see himself as others see him, and all enthusiasm vanishes from his heart.”
“"Am I my brother's keeper?" There you have the whole Biblical understanding that you are your brother's keeper. You also have a whole other understanding in which you are not your brother's keeper. And I've heard some extremely bright people take this position.”
“I don't think it's necessary to put your feelings about photography in words. I've read things that photographers have written for exhibitions and so forth about their subjective feelings about photography and mostly I think it's disturbing. I think they're fooling themselves very often. They're just talking, they're not saying anything.”
“Translation is not appropriation, as is sometimes claimed; it is a form of listening that then changes how you speak.”
“Some days are meant to be counted, others are meant to be weighed.”