Downplayed Figure Quotes & Sayings

If someone does not expect or is not expected to achieve, then they never will. — Martin Pistorius

A man has to think of his soul before everything else. — Leo Tolstoy

If you would discover the supreme happiness of truth, you must break away from all ceremonies and ideological patterns. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

I'm a Midwesterner by birth, and when I traveled there, when I was young, most of the small towns were thriving, vibrant places. — Philip Caputo

The pleasures of love are pains that become desirable, where sweetness and torment blend, and so love is voluntary insanity, infernal paradise, and celestial hell - in short, harmony of opposite yearnings, sorrowful laughter, soft diamond. — Umberto Eco

I'm fascinated by male vulnerability. — Sam Taylor-Johnson

The interesting thing for me about the debate about same-sex marriage is that it's one of those issues where it has no impact on anyone apart from the people that it impacts upon. So I find it quite bewildering that it's - that it's so complicated for people. — Cate Blanchett

call the Elements of Earth and Water into me. I call to the energy given and received, bound to the creatures of the Green Forest. I ask that you come together and show your Light in the form of this tree. For all and forever! We are fae together! May no monster or creature of Darkness ever tear us asunder! — Elle Casey

It's not just the effect of technology on the environment, on religion, on the economic structure, on society, on politics, etc. It's that everything now exists in technology to the point where technology is the new and comprehensive host of nature of life. — Godfrey Reggio

I've wept enough in my life. I have no tears left. — Melina Marchetta

Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code. — Bjarne Stroustrup

Of course we will. You've saved my life. I've saved yours."

"I think you're ahead on that count."

"No, I don't mean in the big ways." Nina's eyes took them all in. "I mean the little rescues. Laughing at my jokes. Forgiving me when I was foolish. Never trying to make me feel small. It doesn't matter if it's next month, or next year, or ten years from now, those will be the things I remember when I see you again. — Leigh Bardugo