Unbearable Lightness Portia Quotes & Sayings

Germany," Lindbergh said, "had the ambitious drive of America, but that drive was headed for war. — Winston Groom

I'm not going to reduce the choices of Canadians at the ballot box by backroom deals or secret arrangements. I think that's a cause for cynicism more than anything else. — Justin Trudeau

Average. It was the worst, most disgusting word in the English language. Nothing meaningful or worthwhile ever came from that word. — Portia De Rossi

Her dresses. Her shoes. A bottle of her perfume. You don't need much to remember someone, Francisco. Even one thing will do. — Mitch Albom

Feed the truth. Starve the lie. — Robin L. Smith

I'm a quite serious actor who doesn't mind being ridiculously comic. — Alan Rickman

I don't know where this pressure came from. I can't blame my parents because it has always felt internal. Like any other parent, my mother celebrated the A grades and the less-than-A grades she felt there was no need to tell anybody about. But not acknowledging the effort that ended in a less than perfect result impacted me as a child. If I didn't win, then we wouldn't tell anyone that I had even competed to save us the embarrassment of acknowledging that someone else was better. Keeping the secret made me think that losing was something to be ashamed of, and that unless I was sure I was going to be the champion there was no point in trying. And there was certainly no point to just having fun. — Portia De Rossi

I wondered if that's what aging felt like. That desire and reality were dueling until the day you die, that nobody every got to a place of peace. I had always wanted to get old so I didn't have to care anymore, but I began to think that it would be best just to skip the getting older part and just die. — Portia De Rossi

You don't have to be emaciated or vomiting to be suffering. All people who live their lives on a diet are suffering. — Portia De Rossi

The socialist countries have the moral duty of liquidating their tacit complicity with the exploiting countries of the West. — Che Guevara

The vacuum created by a failure to communicate will quickly be filled with rumor, misrepresentations, drivel, and poison. — C. Northcote Parkinson

Henry unpacked the car and loaded himself up with everything they'd brought, little bags and big ones, a string tote, a knapsack.
As he started up the driveway, his girlfriend said, "Do you have the wine, Hank?"
Whoever Hank was, he had it. — Melissa Bank

What if heredity, instead of linear, is branching? What if it's not arousal that's so finitely circumscribed? What if in fact there were only like two really distinct individual people walking back there in history's mist? That all difference descends from this difference? The whole and the partial. The damaged and the intact. The deformed and the paralyzingly beautiful. The insane and the attendant. The hidden and the blindingly open. The performer and the audience. No Zen-type one, always rather two, one upside down in a convex lens. — David Foster Wallace

So fair and foul a day I have not seen. — William Shakespeare

Pacifism, not murder, is precedent. To say that war presupposes peace begs the question; it does not explain how violent impulses can be overcome. In — Sarah LaChance Adams