Laowaicareer Quotes & Sayings

That is now my mission: to provide a European vision of growth, employment, prosperity - in one word, our future. — Francois Hollande

'The English Patient' was a huge turning point in my career and my life; it became this huge thing. But the whole Oscar build-up got completely out of control; I spent more time talking about that film than I spent making it! — Kristin Scott Thomas

The ambitious will always be first in the crowd; he presseth forward, he looketh not behind him. More anguish is it to his mind to see one before him, than joy to leave thousands at a distance — Akhenaton

I have never looked for dream in reality or reality in dream. I have allowed my imagination free play, and I have not been led astray by it. — Gustave Moreau

In a matter of a moment the amount of sand in the upper part of the hour-glass had dwindled dramatically, the tiny grains were rushing through the opening, each grain more eager to leave then the last, time is just like people, sometimes it's all it can do to drag itself along, but at others, it runs like a deer and leaps like a young goat, which, when you think about it, is not saying much, since the cheetah is the fastest of all the animals, and yet it has never occurred to anyone to say of another person He runs and jumps like a cheetah, perhaps because that first comparison comes from the magical late middle ages, when gentlemen went deer-hunting and no one had ever seen a cheetah running or even heard of its existence. Languages are conservative, they always carry their archives with them and hate having to be updated. — Jose Saramago

But his kiss was so sweet, and so closely he pressed, that I languished and pined till I granted the rest. — John Gay

Be yourself to understand others. — Debasish Mridha

There is an instinct that emerges when we get quiet with people. We know who's close. — John O'Donohue

Is it so unjust that a man should leave the world by the same gate through which he entered it? — Georg C. Lichtenberg

When he pretends to flee, do not pursue. — Sun Tzu

You can always be a real part of a beautiful road by walking on it! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The honor a man carries in his heart cannot be explained, lass," he said slowly. "Nor can you measure the courage of a man who will not betray his friends, even though he faces disaster himself. We've no right to question, unless we have known the same dilemma and acquitted ourselves with the same integrity. — Jan Cox Speas

Many of us struggle with ideas that come to our head from our self-identification. — Matthew Carter

Be true to yourself and go with your instincts - don't be somebody you're not just to fit in. — Rachel Stevens