Tv Tropes Stock Quotes & Sayings

I must console him for the distance we have moved from the place where he stopped. — Anne Enright

I've learned there are givers and takers in this life. I've slowly let the takers go and I've had it for the better. God bless them, when they learn to play by the rules they are welcomed back, but my heart is worth protecting. — Donald Miller

I'd say it's been my biggest problem all my life ... it's money. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true. — Walt Disney

Shush. I don't care if you're damaged, or if you're not strong inside. Guess what? Nobody is. Whatever you have left is enough. — Jane Seville

A man loses his sense of direction after four drinks; a woman loses hers after four kisses. — H.L. Mencken

War at home is matched by a war on youth. I wrote about this recently. Young people graduate with an average of $23,000 in student loan debt, and they are the ones saddled with it. Youth have become indentured servants and that turns them away from public service. — Henry Giroux

CANDLE WISDOM
If you knew
what you will know
when your candle
has burnt low,
it would greatly
ease your plight
while your candle
still burns bright. — Piet Hein

The camera can be a machine gun, a warm kiss, a sketchbook. Shooting a camera is like saying, Yes, yes, yes. There is no maybe. All the maybes should go in the trash. — Henri Cartier-Bresson

When I write a novel, I want it to be completely different from a screenplay. I'm very conscious of the difference, and I want novels to work purely as novels. Otherwise I don't see how they'll survive - why don't we just all go to the movies or watch television. — Kazuo Ishiguro

We are all too fixed on wrecking ourselves rather than bettering ourselves. — Meggie Royer

I think there are innumerable gods. What we on earth call God is a little tribal God who has made an awful mess. Certainly forces operating through human consciousness control events. — William S. Burroughs

To be challenged means to strive. I'm almost certain that's true. — Alfred Molina

Life is hard to bear: but do not pretend to be so delicate! — Friedrich Nietzsche

Divine punishment is at once followed by Divine pity. — Joseph Hertz