Dauntingness Quotes & Sayings

My acting experience has been a benefit. What I learned from directors is how to listen to and talk with actors. I know how they think and what they need. — Scott Ellis

When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do not allow the Government to deploy those technologies. — Phil Zimmermann

I always feel like I'm missing out on something, that someone is having more fun than I am, so I take measures to make sure that is impossible. — Jessica Cutler

Laughter is a bodily exercise, precious to Health — Aristotle.

Aggression only breeds more aggression. It only creates more fear and anger. — Margaret J. Wheatley

Rom. [To Juliet.] If I profane with my unworthiest hand97 This holy shrine, the gentle sin is this; My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand To smooth that rough touch with a tenderkiss. Jul. Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much,101 Which mannerly devotion shows in this; For saints have hands that pilgrims' hands do touch, And palm to palm is holy palmers' kiss.104 Rom. Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too? Jul. Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer. Rom. O! then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do; They pray, grant thou, lest faith turn to despair.108 Jul. Saints do not move, though grant for prayers' sake. Rom. Then move not, while my prayers' effect I take. Thus from my lips, by thine, my sin is purg'd. [Kissing her. Jul. Then have my lips the sin that they have took.112 Rom. Sin from my lips? O trespass sweetly urg'd! Give me my sin again. Jul. You kiss by the book. — William Shakespeare

California lacks a lot of the rules and restrictions the East has. Every house is a different style, different material, different color. There's a lot of craziness out there. — Parker Stevenson

I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories. — Nat King Cole

Waste is the highest virtue one can achieve in an advanced capitalist society — Haruki Murakami

I've got no other home to go to, not anymore. When I look at England now I see a dead place, Rupert. A wasteland. I won't live in a wasteland. I'd rather die in paradise. — Lev Grossman

The key is to never recognize these imbalances. To not let the dauntingness daunt us. — David Levithan

Then I realize that words like "optimism" and "hope" which appear in all those self-help books that claim they'll make us more confident and better to cope with life, are just that: words. — Paulo Coelho