Durbridge Francis Quotes & Sayings

Choose to fully and graciously live life as it comes. The richest rewards by far are the ones to which you most sincerely give of yourself. — Ralph Marston

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing. — Helen Rowland

When you discriminate against anyone, you discriminate against everyone. It's a display of terrible intolerance. — Alan Dershowitz

And Bill saw the sadness. The wounds of sadness. And Bill saw the hurt. The wounds of hurt. Bill saw the wounds. And Bill felt the fear. Their wounds and their fear. And Bill smiled. And Bill said, There will always be times when we get beaten, boys. There will always be times when we lose. But important thing is what we take away from that beating, what we learn when we lose, boys. Because we'll always learn more from a defeat than a victory. Remember that, boys. Remember that. And learn it, boys. — David Peace

If you want to go out and see a movie and sit in a dark room with strangers, it's not an experience you can replicate at home. — Ted Sarandos

Rachel kneeled beside Jacob. She took the child's hand and pressed it to the dirt. Her father had told Rachel that Harmons had been on this land since before the Revolutionary War.
"Don't ever forget what it feels like, Jacob," she whispered, and let her hand touch the ground as well. — Ron Rash

Be eager to lend a patient ear to the opinions of others and think long and hard whether whoever finds fault has reason or not to censure you. And if the answer is yes, correct the fault. If no, give the impression that you have not heard him, or if he is a man whom you respect, explain to him why he is mistaken. — Leonardo Da Vinci

My interest in philosophy began as early as eight years old - I started thinking about those kinds of heavy questions about life and humanity. — Steve Weinstein

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience. — George Bernard Shaw

Old paint on a canvas, as it ages, sometimes becomes transparent. When that happens it is possible, in some pictures, to see the original lines: a tree will show through a woman's dress, a child makes way for a dog, a large boat is no longer on an open sea. That is called pentimento because the painter "repented," changed his mind. Perhaps it would be as well to say that the old conception, replaced by a later choice, is a way of seeing and then seeing again. That is all I mean about the people in this book. The paint has aged and I wanted to see what was there for me once, what is there for me now. — Lillian Hellman

Predict the predictable, it sounds something strange and difficult, but so far is stupid. To predict the predictable is the stupid thing ever done by human kind. — Deyth Banger

you learn ten times more in a crisis than during normal times. — Geoff Colvin

The Trees shone on Valinor, and Valinor gave back their light in a thousand scintillations of splintered colours; — Anonymous