Romanticization Of Tuberculosis Quotes & Sayings

When I started acting, there were parts in English that I thought I just had to try it out and go to another country. I did a film in Ireland. It was my first film abroad. — Carice Van Houten

We are all so sunk in sin, and so wedded to the world, that we would never turn to God and seek salvation, unless He first called us by His grace. Without a divine call, no one can be saved. — J.C. Ryle

The artist has only to remain true to his dream and it will possess his work in such a manner that it will resemble the work of no other man. — Albert Pinkham Ryder

Selflessness involves giving up your self. You become a martyr. Like the Hindu kamikaze warriors. These Japanese Hindus chose to give up their lives, and they were killed if they didn't. Imagine what their families felt. One day you have a father, and next, you're watching him fly a plane into a ship on Pearl Harbor on television. Those kids didn't do anything wrong. They just lived in an evil country. The axis of evil. That sort of evil is beyond anything you or I will experience in our lifetimes. So be glad. Be glad we live in the US of A. Be glad we get to choose, with our freedoms. Now get out there and fight! — Bill Konigsberg

Gratitude goes beyond the 'mine' and 'thine' and claims the truth that all of life is a pure gift. In the past I always thought of gratitude as a spontaneous response to the awareness of gifts received, but now I realize that gratitude can also be lived as a discipline. The discipline of gratitude is the explicit effort to acknowledge that all I am and have is given to me as a gift of love, a gift to be celebrated with joy. — Henri J.M. Nouwen

Confucius said: "You are never in a position to learn unless you are totally confused. — Marcus Gibson

We always have the necessary resources to face the storms that life throws at us, but most of the time,those resources are locked up in the depths of our heart and we waste an enormous amount of time trying to find them.By the time we've found them,we already been defeated by adversity. — Paulo Coelho

The doctor is often more to be feared than the disease. French Proverb — Lawrence W. Gold

There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress. — Joseph Addison

Loving her is strange and confusing and damn risky. And if I had the chance I'd choose it all over again. — Autumn Doughton

What helped me a lot is the fact that I have a very short neck. If I had a neck like a stack of dimes, you can bet I couldn't take a good shot. But the fact that I had a short neck and worked on it a lot (as opposed to most fighters who don't work on their neck muscles) definitely helped. I would stand on my head against a wall and move my head back and forth, side to side, for half an hour or so while talking on the phone. — George Chuvalo

In a chaotic world, U.S. diplomats will probably have even less contact with the people they need to reach. — David Ignatius

These days, I think we could all agree that having a just-friend is not a bad thing. — Twyla Tharp