Friendship Quotes – a large collection of famous and inspirational quotes
Menu“The bottom line is, life is about learning, whether you’re in school or not. We are human. We make mistakes. But your lowest moment might also be the one where you begin to rise, and rise. So double back. Regroup. Brush yourself off, and try again.” – Sarah Dessen
“Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up ’cause they’re looking for ideas.” – Paula Poundstone
“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.” – James Baldwin
“Don’t handicap your children by making their lives easy.” – Robert A. Heinlein
“There’s nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitive child.” – Frank A. Clark
“Pretty much all the honest truth telling in the world is done by children.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes
“We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.” – Stacia Tauscher
“We cannot always build the future of our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.” – Franklin Delano Roosevelt
“Children are our most valuable resource.” – Herbert Hoover
“Never underestimate a child’s ability to get into more trouble.” – Martin Mull
“Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.” – Phyllis Diller
“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” – Gandhi
“The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.” – Oprah Winfrey
“The only thing constant in life is change.” – Francois de la Rochefoucauld
“He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.” – Harold Wilson
“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” – George Bernard Shaw
“Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you’ll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.” – Jacob M. Braude
“No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” – Charles Darwin
“Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.” – Confucius
“Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.” – Denis Waitley
And of course to work with Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton, and work with a wonderful, beautiful script directed by Nancy Meyers, it was really for me a dream come true.
Basically it starts with four months of training, just basic stretching, kicking and punching. Then you come to the choreography and getting ready to put the dance together.
Keanu Reeves
Because we’re actors we can pretend and fake it, but I’d rather the intimate investment was authentic.
Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things.
Grief changes shape, but it never ends.
Here comes 40. I’m feeling my age and I’ve ordered the Ferrari. I’m going to get the whole mid-life crisis package.
I am not handsome or sexy. Of course, it’s not like I am hopeless.
I believe in love at first sight. You want that connection, and then you want some problems.
I just felt that if I went into Speed 2, I just… wouldn’t have come up out of the water.
I loved the material when I first read it, and the experience of making the film was a great one. So when we came around to complete the trilogy, I just signed on board without even reading the scripts because the experience of the first film was so good.
I mean, if you didn’t get it or if you didn’t feel like you enjoyed it, sometimes that experience can change.
I try not to think about my life. I have no life. I need therapy.
I’m a meathead. I can’t help it, man. You’ve got smart people and you’ve got dumb people.
I’m Mickey Mouse. They don’t know who’s inside the suit.
I’m sorry my existence is not very noble or sublime.
I’ve been pleased to work with so many wonderful stars through the years. This has been an amazing journey. I hope it continues.
I’ve been really fortunate to be able to do different kinds of films in different scales, different genres, different kinds of roles, and that is important to me.
It’s fun to be hopelessly in love. It’s dangerous, but it’s fun.
It’s the journey of self, I guess. You start with this kind of loner, outside guy, which a lot of people can relate to, and he goes out into the world.
Kissing someone is pretty intimate, actually very intimate, and your heart always kind of skips a beat before you do that.
no one would feel ugly
no one would have starve
them selves to be skinny
girls wouldn’t waste money on tanning booths and fake eye lashes
guys wouldnt pick girls based on the hottness scale and ditch the real girls
No one would be home alone listening to their ipods they could have a chance at having a great life
could everyone be friends and feel beautiful
people would stay true to their relationships and never cheat
no one would ever be emberrassed by their clothes or houses
or even their own skin
everyone could “fit in”
Constantin Brancusi is said to be the most famous Romanian sculptor. Today, we celebrate his birthday. We do it in our own way, sharing Constantin Brancusi quotes. Enjoy and share!
Architecture is inhabited sculpture.
Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave.
Don’t look for obscure formulas or mystery in my work. It is pure joy that I offer you. Look at my sculptures until you see them. Those closest to God have seen them.
Simplicity is not an objective in art, but one achieves simplicity despite one’s self by entering into the real sense of things.
Theories are patterns without value. What counts is action.
There hasn’t been any art yet. Art is just beginning.
They are imbeciles who call my work abstract. That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence of things.
I ground matter to find the continuous line. And when I realized I could not find it, I stopped, as if an unseen someone had slapped my hands.
Things are not difficult to make; what is difficult is putting ourselves in the state of mind to make them.
To see far is one thing, going there is another.
What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things… it is impossible for anyone to express anything essentially real by imitating its exterior surface.
When you see a fish you don’t think of its scales, do you? You think of its speed, its floating, flashing body seen through the water… If I made fins and eyes and scales, I would arrest its movement, give a pattern or shape of reality. I want just the flash of its spirit.
“If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples, then you and I still each have one apple, but if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.” – George Bernard Shaw
This is not actually a quote, but I liked the idea, and I’ve posted it here. Let’s discuss a little bit. This image represents you? :)
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