Warshawski Sails Quotes & Sayings

People say you can't make movies about your politics or the environment. And, generally speaking, I completely divide those sides of my brain. — Edward Norton

This emperor was arbiter of the whole world at nineteen, and yet would have a man to be thirty before he could be fit to determine a dispute about a gutter. — Michel De Montaigne

The code of the knight is still the code of the gentleman today. — Baden Powell De Aquino

329. - We believe, sometimes, that we hate flattery - we only dislike the method. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

What makes people good communicators is, in essence, an ability not to be fazed by the more problematic or offbeat aspects of their own characters. They can contemplate their anger, their sexuality, and their unpopular, awkward, or unfashionable opinions without losing confidence or collapsing into self-disgust. They can speak clearly because they have managed to develop a priceless sense of their own acceptability. They like themselves well enough to believe that they are worthy of, and can win, the goodwill of others if only they have the wherewithal to present themselves with the right degree of patience and imagination. As children, these good communicators must have been blessed with caregivers who knew how to love their charges without demanding that every last thing about them be agreeable and perfect. Such parents would have been able to live with the idea that their offspring might sometimes - for a while, at least - be odd, violent, angry, mean, peculiar, — Alain De Botton

It means everything. Making my father happy, that's my biggest joy. — Simeon Rice

What a peculiar civilisation this was: inordinately rich, yet inclined to accrue its wealth through the sale of some astonishingly small and only distantly meaningful things, a civilisation torn and unable sensibly to adjudicate between the worthwhile ends to which money might be put and the often morally trivial and destructive mechanisms of its generation. — Alain De Botton

A good man will not lie, although it be for his profit. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

The tower of success stands on the pillars of vision, action, patience and the character to withstand criticisms. — Amit Ray

Well, I think the main message is there is more to your story. There is more than what happens between the crib and the grave, and that is what I am really trying to speak to, this idea that all of life is this life and that there is nothing more than what we see and experience right here on this earth. — Max Lucado