“Sometimes I think too much fuss is made about marriage. Century after century of carnal embracement and we're still no nearer to understanding one another.”
Thoughtful feeling
Thoughtful Quotes — page 168 of 303
“There has been, is, and always will be every conceivable type of person.”
“We may divide characters into flat and round.”
“One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.”
“There is often a big disparity between the way in which we perceive things and the way things really are.”
“All schools both here and in America should teach far fewer subjects far better.”
“Only the skilled can judge the skillfulness, but that is not the same as judging the value of the result.”
“The human mind is generally far more eager to praise and dispraise than to describe and define. It wants to make every distinction a distinction of value; hence those fatal critics who can never point out the differing quality of two poets without putting them in an order of preference as if they were candidates for a prize.”
“You should avoid making yourself too clear even in your explanations.”
“Yes and no are soon said, but give much to think over.”
“When someone tells you something big, it's like you're taking money from them, and there's no way it will ever go back to being the way it was. You have to take responsibility for listening.”
“Civility also requires relearning how to disagree without being disagreeable. Surely you can question my policies without questioning my faith or, for that matter, my citizenship.”
“Someone once said that every man is trying to live up to his father's expectations or make up for their father's mistakes.”
“I think that to the extent that we focus on problems where we can build a moral and a political consensus, then I think that we move the country forward and when we are divided and our politics is focused on dividing, then I think we're less successful, not just from the perspective of the Democratic Party or the Republican Party but from the perspective of the nation as a whole.”
“If you work with so many classical instruments... I mean, it still has this power, and it's still connected to the idea of techno. But it has its own quality, its own sound. It's in between, even more than the record before. You need to give every instrument, sound, and element the space it needs.”
“My father was a dreamy fellow - he read Plato and Socrates and watched Phillies games.”
“The only option is politeness-remember always that you are dealing with other primates.”
“Personally, I think you can put any interpretation you want on anything, but when someone suggests that Can't Buy Me Love is about a prostitute, I draw the line. That's going too far.”
“Sometimes it's better to leave things as they are, he thought to himself, and decided to say nothing.”
“Her silence was the blank space between the words.”