Even if I had expected it, even if I had known what I was going to do with my life, it would have knocked the wind out of me. When something that violent hits you, you can't help but lose your balance and fall. And after you pick yourself up, you realize you can't trust anybody to save you, not your husband, not your mother, not God. So what can you do to stop yourself from tilting and falling all over again? ~Amy Tan
#quotes #amy-tan #family

In those dark times, one rose to the very heights of humanity by simply remaining human. ~Elie Wiesel
#quotes #elie-wiesel #darkness #humanity

I hope you will judge yourselves not on your professional accomplishments alone, but also on how well you have addressed the world's deepest inequities... on how well you treated people a world away who have nothing in common with you but your humanity. ~Bill Gates
#quotes #bill-gates #philanthropy #humanity

Man is the slave of beneficence. ~Arabic Proverb
#proverbs #arabic-proverbs #human

The three great mysteries: air to a bird, water to a fish, mankind to himself. ~Indian Proverb
#proverbs #indian-proverbs #mystery #human

I never really thought about becoming a professional musician. ~John Mayall
#quotes #john-mayall #music

The year I was born, 1956, was the peak year for babies being born, and there are more people essentially our age than anybody else. We could crush these new generations if we decided to.
#quotes #tom-hanks #50s #generation

You seek problems because you need their gifts. ~Richard Bach
#quotes #richard-bach #hardship

People count up the faults of those who keep them waiting. ~French Proverb
#proverbs #french-proverbs #manners #wait

Spring is sooner recognized by plants than by men. ~Chinese Proverb
#proverbs #chinese-proverbs #spring #seasons #human

When we were all kids, there was one particular trailer that I think we can all remember. That was the trailer for "Close Encounters of the Third Kind." There was an amazing teaser trailer with all this weird kind of documentary footage. We were like, "What was that! I've got to see that! What the hell was that?" ~Matt Reeves
#quotes #matt-reeves #childhood

It takes no effort to be ordinary. Ordinary is not even a challenge. You can do nothing and be ordinary. ~Bernard Hopkins
#quotes #bernard-hopkins #extraordinary

If Heaven made him, earth can find some use for him. ~Chinese Proverb
#proverbs #chinese-proverbs #human #purpose

In our racist, sexist society, Christmas is the eight hours when we stop killing each other and gratuitous overeating is encouraged so that the starving and other people in the world can die! ~Lloyd Kaufman
#quotes #lloyd-kaufman #christmas

When I walk down the runway, my main goal is to not think about the people watching. The idea of all eyes on me would make me too uncomfortable. As I step on the runway, I take a deep breath, focus on a point in the distance, and go! ~Gisele Bundchen
#quotes #gisele-bundchen #modeling

We were never the family that ordered pizza, and my mom never came home with a bucket of fried chicken. My mom always made home-cooked meals. We always sat down at the dinner table as a family. ~Haylie Duff
#quotes #haylie-duff #family #cooking #pizza

About medications that are drunk or applied to wounds it is worth learning from everyone; for people do not discover these by reasoning but by chance, and experts not more than laymen. ~Hippocrates
#quotes #hippocrates #medicine

A short visit is best and that not too often. ~Irish Proverb
#proverbs #irish-proverbs #guests

I mean, sometimes, a comedian becomes an actor, and they just don't deliver, because the bottom line of comedy is to be funny, and the bottom line of acting is to be truthful, and they get that mixed up sometimes, or don't even notice that that's the thing. ~Eddie Izzard
#quotes #eddie-izzard #acting #comedy

A human heart that matched what we think of as heart-shaped; a perfectly formed bright red thing with two halves of equal size; would be one that was horribly diseased. The origin of this stylized representation is somewhat obscure, but it probably appeared at the same time as St. Valentine's Day, about whose history there is much dispute. ~George Fetherling
#quotes #george-fetherling #heart #valentines

If one shed tears, they must be shed on one's pillow. ~Henry Adams
#quotes #henry-adams #weeping

The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed. ~Abraham Lincoln
#quotes #abraham-lincoln #silence

There is something of a painting of a woman that represents all women; and by extension, all of humanity; that I just find very exciting. It is a nice distillation, I think, of what it means to be alive. ~Will Cotton
#quotes #will-cotton #painting #art #women

When a woman is openly bad she is then at her best. ~Latin Proverb
#proverbs #latin-proverbs

Let me make it clear that I do not assert that a President and the Congress must on all points agree with each other at all times. Many times in history there has been complete disagreement between the two branches of the Government, and in these disagreements sometimes the Congress has won and sometimes the President has won. But during the administration of the present President we have had neither agreement nor a clear-cut battle. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt
#quotes #franklin-d-roosevelt #government #politics #presidency