Avocations Define Quotes & Sayings

We can all live with doubts. It's the knowing that breaks us.

Iron House — John Hart

Rome is one of my favourite cities in the world. — Erin Heatherton

The French Revolution, which is nothing more nor less than the ideal armed with the sword, rose abruptly, and by that very movement, closed the door of evil and opened the door of good.
It released the question, promulgated truth, drove away miasma, purified the century, crowned the people.
We can say it created man a second time, in giving him a second soul, his rights. Page 997 Saint-Denis chapter 7 Argot part III — Victor Hugo

I was jut vamping for time to make a few self-improvements: I knew damn well I'd never be a movie star, it's too hard; and if you're intelligent, it's too embarrassing. My complexes aren't inferior enough: being a movie star and having a big fat ego are supposed to go hand-in-hand; actually, it's essential not to have any ego at all. — Truman Capote

As another has well said, to handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change his condition is hopeless is the worst sort of lynching. — Carter G. Woodson

If you do not kiss my mouth, Inigo Montoya of Spain, I will more than likely die. — William Goldman

A genius knows how to make himself easily understood without being obvious about it. — Jean Anouilh

The golden way is to be friends with the world and to regard the whole human family as one. — Mahatma Gandhi

Here, far from our homes, we will be forgotten by our gods. — Neil Gaiman

All unhappiness arises not from privation but from superfluity. — Leo Tolstoy

A lot of my life involves sitting and having make-up put on; whether it's on a movie set or for a photo shoot. When you're wearing that kind of make-up all the time your skin does get all this sensitivity, so it's important that you make sure you have make-up that is easy on your skin and not too harsh for it. — Kate Hudson