1189 Millimeters Quotes

#1. To live on the land we must learn from the ocean, to be true as the tide and free as the wind swell.

John Denver

#2. It is not reasonable that he who does not shoot should hit the mark, nor that he who does not stand fast at his post should win the day, or that the helpless man should succeed or the coward prosper.

Plutarch

#3. I cannot tolerate my bad behavior in another person for 10 seconds

Garrison Wynn

#4. So I need to lay down some ground rules."
"Rules for the use of the ground?" He's gazing out the window. "Am I still allowed to step on it?

Eva Morgan

#5. I'm trying to avoid, you know, guilt, even though before the child is born, you're already thinking you're doing things wrong ... Why do I think that will probably carry over until the day you die?

Emily Mortimer

#6. The feeling that "I am enough" does not mean that I have nothing to learn, nothing further to achieve, and nowhere to grow to. It means that I accept myself, that I am not on trial in my own eyes, that I value and respect myself. This is not an act of indulgence but of courage.

Nathaniel Branden

#7. I'm the first actress in the family, but when I'm home, I'm just Kimberley.

Kimberley Nixon

#8. I'm blessed to be living this dream of writing and singing, but that's not the real dream I had. The real dream was to make enough money to take care of all the pain and suffering that my mother has been through.

Missy Elliott

#9. There is not only one measure of beauty, Lanore. Everyone adores the red rose, and yet it is a common sort of beauty. You are like a golden rose, a rare bloom but no less lovely.

Alma Katsu

#10. The course of the United States in World War II, I said, was dishonest, dishonorable, and ignominious, and the Sunpapers, by supporting Roosevelt's foreign policy, shared in this disgrace.

H.L. Mencken

#11. If I feel sure of one thing, it is that this kind of "health" imperative is not moral. It is grooming.

Mark Greif

#12. Why didn't children ever see that they could damage and harm their parents as much as parents could damage and harm children?

Laura Z. Hobson

#13. Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.

Virginia Woolf

#14. Peter Jones's is a vital public service. He reminds us that while we shouldn't live in the past, we are wiser and stronger when we live with it.

Bettany Hughes