“I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.”
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Thoughtful Quotes — page 63 of 303
“I don't know. I imagine good teaching as a circle of earnest people sitting down to ask each other meaningful questions. I don't see it as a handing down of answers.”
“Or heritage and ideals, our code and standards - the things we live by and teach our children - are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.”
“Our beliefs are the invisible ingredients in all our activities.”
“Most contemporary novels are not really "written." They obtain what reality they have largely from an accurate rendering of the noises that human beings currently make in their daily simple needs of communication; and what part of a novel is not composed of these noises consists of a prose which is no more alive than that of a competent newspaper writer or government official. A prose that is altogether alive demands something of the reader that the ordinary novel-reader is not prepared to give.”
“You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.”
“Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.”
“I am not a glam woman - this definitely is a mask I put on for the public.”
“Few people ask from books what books can give us. Most commonly we come to books with blurred and divided minds, asking of fiction that it shall be true, of poetry that it shall be false, of biography that it shall be flattering, of history that it shall enforce our own prejudices. If we could banish all such preconceptions when we read, that would be an admirable beginning.”
“Everything makes sense a bit at a time. But when you try to think of it all at once, it comes out wrong.”
“We’re neither pure, nor wise, nor good; we do the best we know.”
“We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity.”
“Choose the least important day in your life. It will be important enough.”
“You don't necessarily go in to talk to the person to try to find some secret key to the lock.”
“I always know the ending; that's where I start.”
“Other men's sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our backs.”
“The art of moving forward lies in understanding what to leave behind.”
“I don't fool myself. I can't see myself doing Shakespeare.”
“Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.”
“A lot of times you get credit for stuff in your movies you didn't intend to be there.”