Batalier Quotes & Sayings

Lamenting the past is a waste of energy that we can turn into positive energy through work and acquiring skills. — Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum

An honest man nearly always thinks justly. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

All the dialogue on tape, and we'd play the tape in performance. Then I thought it'd be interesting if the actor's repeated what they heard on the tape, but at a slower speed, so we'd get a web of language. — Richard Foreman

I think one remains the same person throughout, merely passing, as it were, i these lapses of time from one room to another, but all in the same house. — James M. Barrie

There is no shorter road to defeat than by entering a war with inadequate preparation. — Charles Lindbergh

To be the mother of a grown-up child means that you don't have a child anymore, and that is sad. When the grown-up child leaves home, that is sadder. I wanted Margaret to go to college, but when she actually went away it broke my heart. Maybe if you had enough children you could get used to those departures, but, having only three, I never did. I felt them like amputations. Something I needed was missing. Sometimes, even now, when I come into this house and it sounds empty, before I think I will wonder, Where are they? — Wendell Berry

I must cry more than anyone you know," I said. He brushed the hair back from my face and smiled. "You puke a lot, too. — Tracey Garvis-Graves

All that we have to do is to send two mujahedeen to the furthest point east to raise a piece of cloth on which is written al Qaeda, in order to make generals race there to cause America to suffer human, economic and political losses without their achieving anything of note other than some benefits for their private corporations, — Osama Bin Laden

I love to dress up. You have to have a sense of fun in life, too. We can all be serious and work and do our bit, but every now and again you have to have a good giggle. — Marie-Chantal Claire

They are not embarrassed to cry with you when you are hurting or laugh with you when you make a fool of yourself. — Bob Marley

Self Realization is when you dont have to think twice before acting and you never get bored in life. — Girish Kohli

We have shaken off the yoke of noble aristocracy only to fall under the domination of financial aristocracy, we have expelled our parchment tyrants only to fling ourselves into the arms of millionaire despots. Our lot, accordingly, could not improve; the old ones despised us because we could not cite illustrious ancestors and the new ones disdain us because we have not been favoured by fortune. — Eric Hazan

I do think free will is sewn into everything we do; you can't cross a street, light a cigarette, drop saccharine in your coffee without really doing it. Yet the possible alternatives that life allows us are very few, often there must be none. I've never thought there was any choice for me about writing poetry. No doubt if I used my head better, ordered my life better, worked harder etc., the poetry would be improved, and there must be many lost poems, innumerable accidents and ill-done actions. But asking you is the might have been for me, the one towering change, the other life that might have been had. — Robert Lowell

We want to feel that this earth is all ours, like our parents' house when we were children. — Ella Maillart

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough. — Helen Keller