Balavoine Karaoke Quotes & Sayings

Sympathy is no substitute for action. — David Livingstone

[On her mother:] I was in nervous flight from her ever since I can remember anything, and from the age of fourteen I set myself obdurately against her in a kind of inner emigration from everything she represented. Girls do have to grow up, but has this battle always been so implacable? — Doris Lessing

And once you saw the world from three, or five, different roads, the view was never the same. The map changed and altered, and its details became more accurate. The landmarks receded or grew, depending on the angle from which you observed them, and at once, there might be an escarpment from which the astonished traveler would rendezvous with her selves and could suddenly comprehend the land as it truly was. — Kate Elliott

It's more difficult to be loving than rude.
Be kind anyway while you could. — Debasish Mridha

I was very withdrawn and definitely played with dolls well into eighth grade. But I was the oldest of nine, and that grounded me in a way that I don't think I would have been grounded otherwise. So I was able to - or forced to - function practically. But I think, by nature, I was someone who lived in my head, in my imagination. — Susan Sarandon

What one man can do is dream. What one man can do is love. What one man can do is change the world. — John Denver

It is possible to cause seemingly biochemical changes through human emotional involvement. You literally have changed his chemistry by being his friend. — Steve Lopez

So it does turn out that we do need to begin by contemplating the profound nature of self and other. Because if you change the leaves and branches but leave the roots intact, you run the risk of reverting to type. — Norman Fischer