Bryn Forbes Quotes & Sayings

He must understand that if he is the world's finest plum and someone he loves does not like plums, he has the choice of becoming a banana. But he must be warned that if he chooses to become a banana, he will be a second rate banana. But he can always be the best plum. — Leo Buscaglia

1,000 out of the world's 6,000 languages, crammed into an area only slightly larger than that of Texas, — Jared Diamond

It is only as a man puts off from himself all external support, and stands alone, that I see him to be strong and to prevail. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do. — Jose Ortega Y Gasset

Perpetual optimism is a force leveler — Colin Powell

Much of spirituality today is an effort to change God to suit us. But he's not going to become more like us, we need to become more like him. — Mark Driscoll

I always thought the piano scene was kind of unique to shoot because we were actually able to film with the playback of the actual song. And that was quite amazing because it almost made it easier - music is usually something that is added after filming has finished so to be able to shoot a scene with music was really wonderful. — Mia Wasikowska

The first effect of realizing that one is made of nothing is a kind of panic-stricken insecurity. One looks round for some more stable thing to clutch, and in this matter none of the beings of our experience are any more stable than we, for at the origin of them all is the same truth: all are made of nothing. — Frank Sheed

Life is perfect, it glows. — Frederick Lenz

He recognized with absolute certainty the empty fragility of even the noblest theorizings as compared with the definitive plenitude of the smallest fact grasped in its total, concrete reality. — Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

If all you do is sit and read, all you get is smart and soft. — Scott Carpenter

The winds that never moderation knew,
Afraid to blow too much, too faintly blew;
Or out of breath with joy, could not enlarge
Their straighten'd lungs or conscious of their charge. — John Dryden

Each soul must meet the morning sun, the new sweet earth and the Great Silence alone. — Charles Alexander Eastman