Illustrerede Quotes & Sayings

Wasn't really, to tell you the truth. No shock at all." Then he went on: "I always told her she should go, told her she should go and find love, you know, true love. She deserves it, don't you think? That's where she's gone now. Off to find true love. Perhaps she'll find it too. Out there, on the South China Sea, who knows? Perhaps she'll meet a traveller, in a port, in a hotel, who knows? She's become a romantic, you see? I had to let her go." There were now tears welling in his eyes. — Kazuo Ishiguro

I needed to create some dramatic tension to sustain the interest of the audience. For instance, the boy in the film is not in the play, so this relationship that he had with the former teacher, and his guilt, this is not at all in the play. I thought it would be interesting to look at in the film, and I added stuff like that around the main character. For me, it was not more difficult or less difficult. — Philippe Falardeau

Suddenly she longed for the comfort of books around her. No matter how bad she felt, a library could always make her feel better. — Alexandra Sokoloff

Early on I saw the repression and idolatry of Stalinism, and when it cracked, I was open to religion again. — Lionel Blue

Too many escape into complexity these days. For it is an escape for persons to cry, when this question of the equality of peoples is raised in India or in our own South, 'Ah, but the situation is not so simple.' ... no great stride forward is ever made for the individual or for the human race unless the complex situation is reduced to one simple question and its simple answer. — Pearl S. Buck

Anyone can be an idealist. Anyone can be a cynic. The hard part lies somewhere in the middle. — Hugh MacLeod

Want to come one step closer to wisdom? Then you have to train yourself unconditionally in forbearance. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

Discipline and diligence are up there on the list, but one of the most important qualities of many really successful people is humility. If you have a degree of humility about you, you have the ability to take advice, to be coachable, teachable. A humble person never stops learning. — Todd Blackledge

With brain and body, it's great if you have a connection between the two, but when separated, that leads to a lot of conflict. — Adam Driver

Confidence is a fine trait. Over-confidence isn't. — Laurell K. Hamilton

I don't fear you. It's my feelings for you that I fear. — Ally Broadfield