“The long-term accommodation that protects marriage and other such relationships is ... forgetfulness.”
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Thoughtful Quotes — page 50 of 303
“Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made.”
“I don't like to reminisce much, and my walls don't have photographs of me and the actors I was with, or any of that stuff... I try and keep that disciplined, and just work. There are so many traps you can get into, and looking back on your own work is certainly one of them.”
“I don't know all the certain words to word it.”
“Watt's concern, deep as it appeared, was not after all what the figure was, in reality, but with what the figure appeared to be, in reality.”
“Almost every man we meet requires some civility; requires to be humored; - he has some fame, some talent, some whim of religion or philanthropy in his head that is not to be questioned, and which spoils all conversation with him. But a friend is a sane man who exercises not my ingenuity, but me.”
“A philistine is a full-grown person whose interests are of a material and commonplace nature, and whose mentality is formed of the stock ideas and conventional ideals of his or her group and time.”
“I have no morals, yet I am a very moral person”
“The great thing is to know when to speak and when to keep quiet.”
“Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions, but those who kindly reprove thy faults.”
“Talk less, but with more awareness. Every word you use, use purposefully.”
“It is one of the worst things of sentiment that the voice grows to be more important than the words, and the speaker than that what is spoken.”
“More essential than working on attitudes and behaviors is examining the paradigms out of which those attitudes and behaviors flow.”
“I value unity because I believe we learn truth from each other in this process.”
“Most stuff that is genuine is better left unsaid.”
“Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.”
“Most people think everybody feels about them much more violently than they actually do; they think other people's opinions of them swing through great arcs of approval or disapproval.”
“I respect my parents' opinion very much. No matter how old you are, what your parents think is very important. If they like your boyfriend or if they like some work you've done. And if they don't, it's more shattering than anybody else telling you, because they're the most honest.”
“I'd like to think I am taking people on a journey; I am not just entertaining people, but giving them something to think about when they leave.”
“Many people spend more time in planning the wedding than they do in planning the marriage.”