Graceful Swan Quotes

#1. The secret to longevity in the music business is to change, and to be able to change. An actor has to assume other people's identities. A rock star doesn't need to do that. But change is important.

Nick Cave

#2. His own image; no longer a dark, gray bird, ugly and disagreeable to look at, but a graceful and beautiful swan. To be born in a duck's nest, in a farmyard, is of no consequence to a bird, if it is hatched from a swan's egg.

Hans Christian Andersen

#3. Do not tell them how to do it. Show them how to do it and do not say a word. If you tell them, they will watch your lips move. If you show them, they will want to do it themselves.

Maria Montessori

#4. Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#5. I can definitely say the older I've got the better I've become at being a dad and a husband.

Rod Stewart

#6. If there is nothing, then, but silence, is it not presumptuous of me to speak? And yet, if there had been anything more than silence, would I have felt the need to speak in the first place?

Paul Auster

#7. Ask yourself where you're complicit in other people's stories. If you like them, stay in those stories. If you don't, don't. You're not bound to any of it, though remember that if you want to get rid of the bad aspects of something you'll probably have to lose the good aspects, too.

Jason Louv

#8. Not too little, not too much: there safety lies.

Euripides

#9. There is nothing more Islamic than critical thinking.

Tariq Ramadan

#10. I came to believe that a leader isn't good because they're right; they're good because they're willing to learn and to trust.

Stanley A. McChrystal

#11. He had danced with fair maidens before, but Odette was different. She was graceful and beautiful, but there was something in her eyes and in the things she said, an intelligence and a boldness that belied her quiet demeanor.

Melanie Dickerson

#12. In Birmingham, Manchester or Liverpool there are white gangs that share the same backgrounds - they come from broken homes, completely dysfunctional, mums for the most part unable to cope, the fathers of these kids completely not in the scene.

Iain Duncan Smith

#13. His leap was exact, mathematical. The initial arc - head tucked between taut arms that spread out gradually like wings - was as graceful as a swan dive.

Juan Filloy

#14. Without visions and written goals, what direction are we going to head?

Lailah Gifty Akita

#15. Everything always happens for a reason.

Eminem

#16. There we were all in one place, a generation lost in space.

Don McLean