Quotes & Sayings About Watching Friends Make Mistakes

Be yourself. The world worships and original. ~Ingrid Bergman — Daire St. Denis

The priest has just baptized you a Christian with water; and I baptize you a Frenchman, daring child, with a dewdrop of champagne on your lips. — Paul Claudel

That last page turned is a perfect excuse to write a whole new book. — Toni Sorenson

We live in a time when the values of courage and honesty, particularly for women writers, equate to confessing only the darkest, most painful parts of our lives. "How brave you are," my students say to each other over workshop tables, "to expose that." Meaning, to uncover this family secret or that heinous act or to openly confront the demons of alcoholism, promiscuity, substance abuse, incest, infidelity, illness, betrayal ... I have also wrestled many dark angels, and continue to do so, so I acknowledge the price such writing exacts. But more and more I have come to respect the honesty and courage required to recognize the bright angels when they appear in our memory, and to allow them equal space in our narratives. — Rebecca McClanahan

When people are rude to other people. When people belittle other people. Bullies really bother me a lot. A lot, a lot. — Chris Zylka

Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down. — Charles Kettering

We're all damaged in our own way. Nobody's perfect. I think we're all somewhat screwy. Every single one of us. — Johnny Depp

A cheerleader? Do I look like a guy who'd be interested in talking to a cheerleader? — Carrie Jones

As many have observed, it is easy to tell a lie, but it is almost impossible to tell only one. — Harriet Lerner

In December 1988, my mother died of lung cancer. I died too. I couldn't function. — Sandra Dee

Women asking for raises should not only know their value, but they should ask with the confidence that they're helping the company to be successful. — Kirsten Gillibrand

It is not a demonstration of kindness or friendship to the people we care about to join them in indulging in wrongheaded, negative feelings. We do a better service to ourselves and others by remaining detached and avoiding melodramatic reactions. — Epictetus

To my child's eyes, which had seen nothing else, Shanghai was a waking dream where everything I could imagine had already been taken to its extreme. — J.G. Ballard