Carnaby Quotes & Sayings

Fools are not mad folks. — William Shakespeare

The command to judge not is not a requirement to be blind, but rather a plea to be generous. Jesus does not tell us to cease to be men ... but to renounce the presumptuous ambition to be God. — John Stott

Go for it without qualms and forget about the naysayers. — Veronika Carnaby

Maybe he suspected something, maybe he'd simply been around long enough to know that fairytales seldom came true — Nicholas Sparks

Every story reads on multiple levels to convey a greater, more intricate message, and it's the reader's role to tap into that. — Veronika Carnaby

When the world turns its back on you, for God's sake, don't get discouraged. — Veronika Carnaby

Though from a position of unrequited love they long to see their love returned, Marxists unconsciously prefer that their dreams remain in the realm of fantasy. Why should others think any better of them than they of themselves? Only so long as the loved one believes the Marxist to be more or less nothing, can the Marxist continue to believe the loved one to be more or less everything. — Alain De Botton

The belief that unhappiness is selfless and happiness is selfish is misguided. It's more selfless to act happy. It takes energy, generosity, and discipline to be unfailingly lighthearted, yet everyone takes the happy person for granted. No one is careful of his feelings or tries to keep his spirits high. He seems self-sufficient; he becomes a cushion for others. And because happiness seems unforced, that person usually gets no credit. — Gretchen Rubin

It's quite simple. I just don't feel right without a pen in my hand denting a hole through my notepad. — Veronika Carnaby

Why should some foul word-slinging curb my ambitions? — Veronika Carnaby

It always pays off to focus on things that will make you feel proud. Remember this during every difficult decision you face. — Richard Branson

I don't think there's a subject matter that can't absorb 3-D; that can't tolerate the addition of depth as a storytelling technique. — Martin Scorsese

Creative people, especially those who are just starting out, feel that they have to conform and be a mass-produced product in order to be noticed. The truth of the matter is that genuineness and unconventionality is often what helps make a mark on the world. — Veronika Carnaby

I don't have to be a leading man. I can be a character actor. That's really what interests me anyway. — Mark Ruffalo

Even a documentary portrait of a person that tries to be very accurate is shaped by the filmmaker in so many ways. — Dana Spiotta

Reducing the price of AIDS drugs gave me so much satisfaction that I've been thinking what else I could do. One day, I thought, 'Let's look at cancer and see how we can spare cancer patients' unnecessary suffering.' — Yusuf Hamied

Not as men of science , not as critics , not as philosophers , but as little children , shall we enter into the kingdom of heaven . — John Campbell Shairp

Many people don't realize the connection between music and literature and I'm here to tell them that it does exist! — Veronika Carnaby

there's no beauty without poignancy and there's no poignancy without the feeling that it's going, men, names, books, houses--bound for dust--mortal--"
a small boy appeared beside them and, swinging a handful of banana peels, flung them valiantly in the direction of the potomac. — F Scott Fitzgerald

I'm convinced that the arts could be something of a higher power. — Veronika Carnaby

I don't want to re-write the same old book with the same tired techniques. I'd rather bring something new to the table that's true to me and that people will have a genuine reaction to. That's the whole point, isn't it? — Veronika Carnaby

People naturally believe things they see. Nobody argues with the irrefutable postings on YouTube. — Andrew Smith

My brother Julio and I worked to improve the quality of wines from California and to put fine wine on American dinner tables at a price people could afford — Ernest Gallo

After much seeking for truth and knowledge the profoundness of reality came to me with a clarity never before known. — Gautama Buddha