It's not about changing people; it's sometimes about changing a situation. How can we build an even better situation for them?
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It's not about changing people; it's sometimes about changing a situation. How can we build an even better situation for them?
It doesn't all have to be about giving money. Sometimes it's a smile that changes the life of one little kid.
Sometimes I walk into a situation and know someone is going to provoke me, and I just simply refuse to be provoked.
Sometimes, in doing philosophy, one just wants to utter an inarticulate sound.
Sometimes I've called writing a disease. If so, I'm glad that it caught me.
It is not humiliating to be unhappy. Physical suffering is sometimes humiliating, but the suffering of being cannot be, it is life.
I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.
There are people who are able to plan their career, their future, but I've never had any talent for that. I just do things and hope for the best. Say yes, take a chance, and sometimes it's terrific and sometimes it's not.
Sometimes I have the strangest feeling about you. Especially when you are near me as you are now. It feels as though I had a string tied here under my left rib where my heart is, tightly knotted to you in a similar fashion. And when you go to Ireland, with all that distance between us, I am afraid that this cord will be snapped, and I shall bleed inwardly.
Sometimes," he sighed, "I think the things I remember are more real than the things I see.
Sometimes you have to go places with characters and emotions within yourself you don't want to do, but you have a duty to the story and as a storyteller to do it.
Sometimes I think all my pictures are just pictures of me.
Everything is explained now. We live in an age when you say casually to somebody 'What's the story on that?' and they can run to the computer and tell you within five seconds. That's fine, but sometimes I’d just as soon continue wondering. We have a deficit of wonder right now.
Sometimes there are no good guys. There are no bad guys. It seems like everybody is in the middle.
What I mean is sometimes, for an artist, chronic pain can be a gift.
Since childhood, I was afflicted with a sick hypersensitivity, and my imagination quickly turned everything into a memory, too quickly: sometimes one day was enough, or an interval of a few hours, or a routine change of place, for an everyday event with a lyrical value that I did not sense at the time, to become suddenly adorned with a radiant echo, the echo ordinarily reserved only for those memories which have been standing for many years in the powerful fixative of lyrical oblivion.
There are more important things than finding the murderer. And justice is a fine word, but it is sometimes difficult to say exactly what one means by it. In my opinion, the important thing is to clear the innocent. - Hercule Poirot
Evil never goes unpunished, Monsieur. But the punishment is sometimes secret.
Sometimes ideas just come to me. Other times I have to sweat and almost bleed to make ideas come. It's a mysterious process, but I hope I never find out exactly how it works.
My brain surprises even me sometimes.
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