33175 Quotes & Sayings

If you want to call attention to your good deed then it isn't a good deed, it's a self-serving one. Why? Not only have you patted yourself on the back but you're fishing for others to do the same. — Donna Lynn Hope

Your own malice is the bitterest of all evils. Is it then possible to correct malice by means of evil? Having a beam in your own eye, can you pull out the mote from the eye of another? — John Of Kronstadt

A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper. — Stanley Kubrick

Let heart and voice, like bells of silver, ring, the comfort that this day doth bring. — Alexander Moody Stuart

All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake. — Indira Gandhi

No work, as long as it is decent, can ever disgrace anybody. — Maria Augusta Von Trapp

If nature does not ratify law, then all the virtues may lose their sway. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

If we speak of our reason as the impartial bar of judgment we have already taken sides. — Anonymous

Going back to my film education, I always have that voice in my head that's always screaming, 'Sell out!' And that's good: you want that, because it keeps you on your toes, and it's important to remember what's actually important. — Damien Chazelle

When I got to college I simply decided that I could speak French, because I just could not spend any more time in French classes. I went ahead and took courses on French literature, some of them even taught in French. — Lev Grossman