“Ah? A small aversion to menial labor?" The doctor cocked an eyebrow. "Understandable, but misplaced. One should treasure those hum-drum tasks that keep the body occupied but leave the mind and heart unfettered.”
Thoughtful feeling
Thoughtful Quotes — page 58 of 303
“We are sometimes so busy being good angels that we neglect to be good men and women.”
“Your preparation for the real world is not in the answers you’ve learned, but in the questions you’ve learned how to ask yourself.”
“Let it be fact, one feels, or let it be fiction; the imagination will not serve under two masters simultaneously.”
“In and out of my heart flowed my rainbow blood.”
“The best is the enemy of the good.”
“Minds differ still more than faces.”
“We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.”
“The main reason for rewriting is not to achieve a smooth surface, but to discover the inner truth of your characters.”
“On the one hand you take life too seriously, and on the other, you do not take playful existence seriously enough.”
“While acting in Armed Response I was always focused, just so they could see me as a peer and maybe not some idiot who's coming in from the pro-wrestling world. I'm sure they had their preconceived notions about me so I just hope that once we were finished with a scene, or finished with the movie overall, that I managed to change their perspective based on what they were expecting.”
“Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you.”
“Our appreciations, it was felt, could be so much more inclusive if we said that something, instead of being beautiful, was 'interesting'.”
“Since in order to speak, one must first listen, learn to speak by listening.”
“Going to a party, for me, is as much a learning experience as, you know, sitting in a lecture.”
“When I was growing up, my mom told me every story that was happening to her. Most of the stories that come to me are through a female voice in my head. My stories seem to naturally be about females.”
“I think school is so much harder than real life. People are so much more accepting when they are adults.”
“I'm sorry to say that the subject I most disliked was mathematics. I have thought about it. I think the reason was that mathematics leaves no room for argument. If you made a mistake, that was all there was to it.”
“We men of study, whose heads are in our books, have need to be straightly looked after! We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.”
“History is a conversation and sometimes a shouting match between present and past, though often the voices we most want to hear are barely audible.”