Quotes & Sayings About Being Replaced By Another Friend

There are people who want me to do a cologne. They want to call it 'Patrick.' I was offered a fortune to make exercise videos. Posters, all kinds of stuff - something like $10 million worth. It's insanity. I'm not going to do any of it. — Patrick Swayze

The value of experimentation is not the trying. It's the trying again after the experiment fails. — Simon Sinek

My photographs are proof of what happened. When I go to Russia, sometimes I meet ex-soldiers ... They say, 'We came to liberate you ... ' I say: 'Listen, I think it was quite different. I saw people being killed.' They say: 'No. We never ... no shooting. No. No.' So I can show them my Prague 1968 photographs and say, 'Listen, these are my pictures. I was there.' And they have to believe me. — Josef Koudelka

It takes more time and effort and delicacy to learn the silence of a people than to learn its sounds. Some people have a special gift for this. Perhaps this explains why some missionaries, notwithstanding their efforts, never come to speak properly, to communicate delicately through silences. Although they 'speak with the accent of natives' they remain forever thousands of miles away. The learning of the grammar of silence is an art much more difficult to learn than the grammar of sounds. — Ivan Illich

In short, the right given to one man to inflict corporal punishment on another is one of the ulcers of society, one of the most powerful destructive agents of every germ and every budding attempt at civilization, the fundamental cause of its certain and irretrievable destruction. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I think that young Australians ought to be taking language education much more seriously. I mean, you know, every day I'm meeting people with expertise, ability and talent in fields where I want to learn so much more; science, for example. — Quentin Bryce

My family has always called me 'Lay Lay,' and my dad used to always call me 'Dynamite Termite' because I was really short and small and I hated to be still. I would never stop. — Lacey Chabert

I still try to be a feminist in some tiny way. — Imogen Poots

I'm not so sure that people consider homelessness to be as important as, say, the Vietnam War. One should never even try to equate them because, of course, they're tragedies on both sides of the coin. — Graham Nash

Showing joy by jumping up and down and clapping goes away at some point between pre-school and being old enough to go to orgies. — Dana Gould

I support transitioning from the progressive tax to a flat tax system - both individual and corporate/business. — Allen West