Characterise A Living Quotes & Sayings

diplomacy is simply the name we have agreed to give to lying about national affairs. I — Mark Twain

Everyone's had shit in their lives. Some people have it worse than others. But no one can turn you into a bad person, just like no one can turn you into a good one. We're all dealt our hands in life, and how we choose to react is entirely up to us. That's free will. — Kelley York

Jim Rohn is outstanding! He is among the most polished, professional speakers in America, with a message everyone should hear. — Brian Tracy

Windisch closes his eyes. He feels his eyes. He feels his eyeballs in his hands. His eyes without a face. — Herta Muller

He conquers who endures. — Persius

The real battle for Christians today is not Armageddon, it is the battle for a sensible approach to that ancient library of books we call the Bible. The Bible was written by human beings, with all the longings, prejudices and illusions that characterise us as a species. It is not an apocalyptic almanac, a mystical code book, an inerrant textbook for living. It is a compendium of a particular people's struggle with meaning; so it should encourage us to do the same in our day. — Richard Holloway

I was brought into the curiosity of it because with Sony Pictures Classics, which bought the movie, they look into what the feedback is and base that off of how they release it, and you end up hearing the feedback and getting that early talk. So the reviews early on that were "bad reviews," they were kind of reviewing another movie. — Don Cheadle

I don't know if anything in nature ever grows exactly the same, but they are always exactly as the way it should be, perfectly itself. — Bob Ross

We feel something, and reach out for the nearest phrase or hum with which to communicate, but which fails to do justice to what has induced us to do so ... We stay on the outside of our impressions, as if staring at them through a frosted window, superficially related to them, yet estranged from whatever has eluded casual definition. — Alain De Botton

I used to be a good party boy. I'm old. I'm an old man. You pay the consequences. I'm just fine with a couple of drinks, no more than that. — Javier Bardem

You can teach to a wall, but when you help someone learn, you have to get involved with the whole person. — Guy Doud

If I have something I want to say that is too difficult for adults to swallow, then I write it in a book for children. Children still haven't closed themselves off with fear of the unknown, fear of revolution, or the scramble for security. They are still familiar with the inborn vocabulary of myth — Madeleine L'Engle