Collenette Quotes

#1. Photography is a transformation, not a reproduction.

Ernst Haas

#2. (I lied, in 1939, with far greater conviction that I told the truth- so I was positive that M. Yoshoto looked at me with suspicion when I said I wasn't feeling well.

J.D. Salinger

#3. However strong, however imposing a ship may appear, it is not 'disgraced' because it flies before the tempest. A commander ought always to remember that a man's life is worth more than the mere satisfaction of his own pride. In any case, to be obstinate is blameable, and to be wilful is dangerous.

Jules Verne

#4. The gift of darkness draws you to know God's presence beyond what thought, imagination, or sensory feeling can comprehend.

Richard Rohr

#5. I'm not happy, frankly. Because I think in a civil society we don't need firearms.

David Collenette

#6. I believe in a civil society we should do as much as possible not to have firearms in any guise, but obviously they are a necessary function of policing.

David Collenette

#7. Through indecision opportunity is often lost.

Publilius Syrus

#8. So what oppresses and scares us? It is our own thoughts, obviously, What overwhelms people when they are about to leaves friends, family, old haunts and their accustomed way of life? Thoughts.

Epictetus

#9. Most people, without consciously realizing it, absorb a great deal of psychic energy from the people they casually associate with, and even a greater amount from people with whom they have strong emotional connections.

Frederick Lenz

#10. At first glance, the idea that some UFOs may be vehicles from outside the Earth seems utterly preposterous, the baseless result of wishful thinking by highly unscientific minds.

Don Berliner

#11. If you want to lift up an economy in Africa, you basically start with the women.

Melinda Gates

#12. Americans love our shoes and us Brits love that we can always pick up a bargain when in the US.

Lisa Snowdon

#13. If a man ever lets you know that he sees marriage as a trap, and women as nothing but scheming connivers, you are by no means to marry him. Any man that sees your entire sex in so harsh a light has nothing to offer you.

Courtney Milan

#14. What is important, I think, is to reach as many people as you can and do it as well as you can. Reach them and inspire them or amuse them, or maybe in some odd moments help them to discover something they hadn't thought of before.

Max Von Sydow

#15. Where we can compete on merit, we do very well.

Jim Barksdale

#16. She bought seeds and raided nurseries and mulched and composted and spent full days with her hands full of earth, coaxing life our of the dry, dull grass my father had spent years pushing a mower over.

Sarah Dessen

#17. Even if things were the same, people's perception of them might have been very different back then. The darkness of night was probably deeper then, so the moon must have been that much bigger and brighter.

Haruki Murakami