Everyman Cinema Quotes & Sayings

Discover your soul. — Lailah Gifty Akita

To fear death is nothing other than to think oneself wise when one is not; for it is to think one knows what one does not know. No man knows whether death may not even turn out to be the greatest blessing for a human being; and yet people fear it as if they knew for certain that is is the greatest of evil. (Socrates in The Apology) — Plato

Maybe we're all like that with our mothers. They seem ordinary until one day they're extraordinary. — Lisa See

Once, as a teenager, I had believed that people could change themselves. Finally I realized that all one could ever hope was understanding one's filthy self better. — Arthur Nersesian

When you cannot measure, your knowledge is meager and unsatisfactory. — Lord Kelvin

How can you see and sue something invisible? — Toba Beta

Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination. — Alphonse De Lamartine

The [Burmese] government appears to be more interested in stamping out political activity than drug addiction. Very few university students on the campus could get away with engaging in political activities, but they seem to be able to get away with taking drugs. We have heard that it is very easy to obtain drugs on the university campuses. — Aung San Suu Kyi

I eat ice cream. It's better than booze. — Del Shannon

A fat servant is not much of a man. A beaten servant is a great man, because in his breast freedom has its home. — Halldor Laxness

Can we behold, unheeding,
Life's holiest feelings crush'd; -
While Woman's heart is bleeding,
Shall Woman's voice be hush'd? — Elizabeth Margaret Chandler

Change comes from a process of trials and wilderness experiences, problems and difficulties - it's a process of transition from one quality level to another. — Sunday Adelaja

To give, and not demand that others receive ... that is the crossover point to maturity ... — Richard Rohr

all men are divided into 'ordinary' and 'extraordinary.' Ordinary men have to live in submission, have no right to transgress the law, because, don't you see, they are ordinary. But extraordinary men have a right to commit any crime and to transgress the law in any way, just because they are extraordinary. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Give love and unconditional acceptance to those you encounter, and notice what happens. — Wayne Dyer