Able Quotes - Page 39

Dont shoot the messenger for revealing uncomfortable truths.

It [moviemaking] is about entertaining audiences with great characters and great stories, you want to make people laugh, you want to make people cry, you want to have great music that is memorable. You want a movie that, as soon as it's over, you want to watch it again, just like that. That's what it is, whether it's live-action, animation, hand drawn, computer, special effects, puppet animation, it doesn't matter. That's the goal of a filmmaker.

Just as you would not neglect seeds that you planted with hope that they will bear vegetables and fruits and flowers, so must you attend to nourish the garden of your becoming.

If wine is fruit, then vodka must be a vegetable.

Medicaid is a vital safety net for New York's poor and vulnerable, young and old alike.

What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?

Compassion requires us to be weak with the weak, vulnerable with the vulnerable, and powerless with the powerless. Compassion means full immersion in the condition of being human.

A valuable friend is one who'll tell you what you should be told, even if it offends you.

The moments we have behind us, you won't be able to see again. We're only responsible for what we live in right now.

I really like to play inside. I really like being able to go one-on-one with an offensive lineman every play. At defensive end, you're more running up the field and containing more than you are just against an offensive lineman.

I try to stick to a vegan diet heavy on fruit and vegetables.

I'm not irreplaceable ... I'm nothing but grass growing on the ground; when the grass dies, another one replaces it.

I don’t eat meat because meat brings out negative qualities such as fear, anger, anxiety, aggressiveness, etc. Vegetables peacefully offer themselves to the earth when ripe, thus allowing a sublime and peaceful thought-conscio usness

For us, genocide was the gas chamber - what happened in Germany. We were not able to realize that with the machete you can create a genocide.

I find a fence a very uncomfortable place to squat my bottom.

How one can live without being able to judge oneself, criticize what one has accomplished, and still enjoy what one does, is unimaginable to me.

Out, damned spot! Out, I say!

In life, change is inevitable. In business, change is vital.

Here is an unspeakable secret: paradise is all around us and we do not understand.

The wish to be able to fly is to be understood as nothing else than a longing to be capable of sexual performance.

I am incapable of mediocrity.

Some are born great. Some achieve greatness. Some get it as a graduation gift.

Variant: When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.

What profit has not that fable of Christ brought us!

The treasures of the heart are most valuable of all.