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teacher way students
It's the student who makes the teacher, not the other way around. Carlos Ruiz Zafon
things-in-life two differences
There are two things in life you cannot choose. The first is your enemies; the second your family. Sometimes the difference between them is hard to see, but in the end time will show you that the cards you have been dealt could always have been worse.
thinking people world
We seem to live in a world where forgetting and oblivion are an industry in themselves and very, very few people are remotely interested or aware of their own recent history, much less their neighbors'. I tend to think we are what we remember, what we know. The less we remember, the less we know about ourselves, the less we are. (Interview with Three Monkeys Online, October 2008)
thinking judging people
I think you judge yourself too severely, a quality that always distinguishes people of true worth.
thinking wind class
A big success can be very confusing if it comes too early in your life. When you are young, you are more vulnerable to vanity. I was 36 when I wrote The Shadow of the Wind and the success of it was very gradual. If you have this kind of success straight off, I think there is a danger you can become an idiot, because you don't have a perspective. It hasn't changed me a lot. I fly first class now. But those things don't change you. If I am pretentious, I was before, I haven't changed. The only thing is, I am less anxious now.
true-friend love-you opposites
You know who your true friends are when things go wrong for you, but the opposite is also true. When things go well, the people who really love you are happy.
teacher latin despair
The teachers tried everything, even pleading, but Tomas was in the habit of addressing them only in Latin, a language he spoke with papal fluency and in which he did not stammer. Sooner or later they all resigned in despair, fearing he might be possessed: he might be spouting demonic instructions in Aramaic at them, for all they knew.
thinking mad madmen
Madmen always think it's the others who are mad.
thinking world streets
I wandered off, walking through streets that seemed emptier than ever, thinking that if I didn't stop, if I kept on walking, I wouldn't notice that the world I thought I knew was no longer there.
thinking feelings sometimes
Sometimes feeling and thinking are one and the same.
trust never-trust
Never trust he who trusts everyone.
talking people say-anything
You young people never say anything. And us old folks don't know how to stop talking.
truth book mirrors
Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.
time past faster
Time goes faster the more hollow it is. Lives with no meaning go straight past you, like trains that don’t stop at your station.
two saint stories
When everyone is determined to present someone as a monster, there are two possibilities: either he’s a saint or they themselves are not telling the whole story.
too-late attention stories
Nobody had noticed, nobody had paid attention, but, as usual, the essential part of the matter had been settled before the story had begun, and by then it was too late.
thinking forever moments
The moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you've already stopped loving that person forever.
time taught too-much
Time has taught me not to lose hope, yet not to trust too much in hope either.
thinking people wish
. . .sometimes one feels freer speaking to a stranger than to people one knows. Why is that?" “Probably because a stranger sees us the way we are, not as he wishes to think we are.
truth long alive
that as long as we are being remembered, we remain alive.
thinking always-trying burgers
I think about what I'm eating every day. I still have burgers and stuff that's not good for me sometimes, but I'm always trying to be careful. I don't just eat whatever I want. Camilla Luddington
thinking hair mourning
It was a huge shock. I've never had hair that short in my life! I think the rest of the cast and crew were mourning my haircut more than I was! But after a while, I felt liberated, I learned to embrace it. Camilla Belle
two hours seats
What we do at its very, very best, at its very, very most, will shift us slightly in our seat. If only for two hours, great. If for the rest of our lives, even better. Campbell Scott
thinking sick too-much
I tend to turn down roles that are too much like me, what I think is most like me anyhow, because I'm me all the time and I'm sick of it.
thinking doors people
I think people tend to live, whether they like it or not, influenced by what's next door to them.
thank-you two president
I thank you for your kind invitation to introduce me to the president of the Republic. Since I have not been out of my atelier for two months, I have no appropriate costume for this circumstance. Please excuse me. Camille Claudel
two paris new-life
I have been back in Paris for two weeks. Nothing new. Life is still bitter.
truthful weak difficult
Watercolour is not especially difficult, but I must warn you to steer clear of those pretty English watercolourists, so skilful and alas so weak, and so often too truthful. Camille Pissarro
taken fighting boys
Freud says, Man fears that his strength will be taken from him by woman, dreads becoming infected with her femininity and then proving himself a weakling. Masculinity must fight off effeminacy day by day. Woman and nature stand ever ready to reduce the male to boy and infant. Camille Paglia
treasure afghanistan afghan
Our presence in Afghanistan is not worth the price of any more American lives or treasure.
thinking long tuning
Lately, I've been doing a lot of tuning in and impatiently tuning out. As a longtime fan of talk radio, I don't think this bodes well for the long-term broad appeal of the medium.
tradition deny western
The piddling ignoramuses who deny that there is a distinct, discernible, objective western tradition are just woozy literati.
taken responsibility sexuality
[W]omen will never be taken seriously until they accept full responsibility for their sexuality.