Im Awkward Quotes & Sayings

Forgiveness is choosing to see your offender with different eyes. — Max Lucado

How do you teach "work hard, be independent, learn the meaning of money" to children who look around themselves and realize that they never have to work hard, be independent, or learn the meaning of money? That's why so many cultures around the world have a proverb to describe the difficulty of raising children in an atmosphere of wealth. In English, the saying is "Shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations." The Italians say, "Dalle stelle alle stalle" ("from stars to stables"). In Spain it's "Quien no lo tiene, lo hance; y quien no lo tiene, lo deshance" ("he who doesn't have it, does it, and he who has it, misuses it"). Wealth contains the seeds of its own destruction. — Malcolm Gladwell

Dubium sapientiae initium. (Doubt is the origin of wisdom.) — Rene Descartes

One of the reasons I don't have kids is because I think people would have been very unfair to them. Think of it. You're still asking me questions about The Exorcist. — Linda Blair

As long as the attack is upon effects only, no change is possible. — Robert M. Pirsig

When an individual fear or apathy would cause us to pass by the unfortunate, then life is of no account. — Haniel Long

To a brighter light, to a promised land, you can feel the power, of the master's hand. — Bob Seger

Don't get too comfortable. We are here for a certain period of time, and how much of your life are you gonna choose to spend with distractions? How do you make your choices? What is important? — David Chase

I think there is an immense charm and humanity about the Bollywood structure, probably in the way there was about Hollywood film in the '30s and '40s. Somehow they were less distracted about hardware, and more about production values and people, you know? — Julian Sands

Act first, explain later. — Dan Brown

Go not as told by others, But by other ways go. — William Marshall

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess. — Samuel Johnson

We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can, and as carefully guard against the growing into ways that are likely to be disadvantageous. — William James

Even when I can play Europe's most precious keyboard, to have to listen to people who don't understand, or do not want to understand, and who are incapable of grasping my intent, whatever I play, does surely forfeit my lust for playing at all. — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart