“You can't get someone to like something they aren't feeling. After you press play, there isn't anything you can do.”
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Thoughtful Quotes — page 31 of 303
“You have to understand that the Bible is really a library of books and it has different categories of material. There are certain parts which you have to say no to. The Bible accepted slavery. St Paul said women should not speak in church at all and there are people who have used that to say women should not be ordained. There are many things that you shouldn't accept.”
“Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions.”
“Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.”
“Even when I was wrong, I got my point across.”
“Land. If you understand nothing else about the history of Indians in North America, you need to understand that the question that really matters is the question of land.”
“Remember what is unbecoming to do is also unbecoming to speak of.”
“I don't like words coming out of a character's mouth that I adore because not only is he a little bit duplicitous but he's kind of practical in the way he thinks, and he thinks in terms of everyone's humanity and how quickly we can go against what we think we meant when we said it or what we believe or blah, blah, blah.”
“It sounds plausible enough tonight, but wait until tomorrow. Wait for the common sense of the morning.”
“always keep your words soft and sweet, just in case you'll have to eat them, you can swallow it well.”
“I have never taken myself that seriously as an actor.”
“I stopped buying Sunday papers about 15 years ago, because you'd buy handfuls of them, and what you got, because the hard news comes from so many other channels, was opinion pieces. You're better off spending the money on a good novel.”
“The Museum is not meant either for the wanderer to see by accident or for the pilgrim to see with awe. It is meant for the mere slave of a routine of self- education to stuff himself with every sort of incongruous intellectual food in one indigestible meal.”
“In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.”
“The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him.”
“When I'm not writing or reading, I'm thinking about both.”
“The fact that I’m silent doesn’t mean I have nothing to say.”
“What others say and do is a projection of their own reality.”
“Say only what you mean.”
“We all have to control our feelings. That's the thing that separates us from animals.”