Quotes About Paper Boats

#1. It's funny because you always think a real friendship can weather any storm, but human relationships can be as flimsy as paper boats in a tsunami."
~ page 97

Steven Parlato

#2. These paper boats of mine are meant to dance on the ripples of hours, and not reach any destination.

Rabindranath Tagore

#3. Every abyss is navigable by little paper boats.

Joao Guimaraes Rosa

#4. It was a storm in a tea cup, but in politics we sail in paper boats.

Harold Macmillan

#5. Sometimes I wonder what my interior actually is. A heart that goes pitter-patter and thoughts that glide by like little paper boats on flowing water,

Orhan Pamuk

#6. No philosophical theory which I have yet come across is a radical improvement on the words of Genesis, that 'In the beginning God made Heaven and Earth'.

C.S. Lewis

#7. I always thought of myself as an amateur stunt man.

Casey Neistat

#8. His life was a book of his own writing, one orderly page after another.

William Joyce

#9. I am a bird of God's garden
and I do not belong to this dusty world
For a day or two they have put me here
in this cage of my own body
I did not come here of my own
I will not return of my own
to my own country.

Rumi

#10. If I am able to carry on modeling, I'll be very happy to, but my passion is definitely in music and acting. I would love to do what Meryl Streep is doing. Her or Judi Dench, or maybe Charlize Theron as well.

Cara Delevingne

#11. In foster care it's easier to measure what you've lost over what you have gained, because it there aren't many gains in that life and you are a prisoner to someone else's plans for your life.

John William Tuohy

#12. It's great to make your own choices, but there's a price to pay. I could've made more money or been more famous. I could be the current groovy guy.

Michael Keaton

#13. If men were stubborn just in proportion as they were right, stubbornness would take her seat among the virtues; but men are generally stubborn just in proportion as they are ignorant and wrong.

Josh Billings

#14. Tolerance over time breeds resentment. Only through understanding, that comes from the acceptance of one another's differences, shall we find true peace.

Erndell Scott

#15. I'm glad your self-righteousness has given you some exercise, but you forget: we are not such a tidy, reasonable, and humane race. Our thoughts don't stand in grammatical rows, our hearts don't draw equations, our consciences don't have the benefit of historians whispering the answers to us.

Josiah Bancroft

#16. Let me see a complete reorganization of the North Atlantic fleet's defensive strategy against Nazi U-boats. And if it won't go on one side of one sheet of paper, it hasn't been properly thought out - Winston Churchill.

Patrick Robinson

#17. When I really love a movie, I don't want to spoil it by too frequent visits. But I like to come back to certain films, which I admire.

Roman Polanski

#18. At the moment I am a little bit politician, yes. I think that could be my next step. It is not because I want power, it is because of what I think I could do for the people.

Haile Gebrselassie

#19. When one has seen something of the world and human nature, one must conclude, after all, that between people in like stations of life there is very little difference the world over.

James Weldon Johnson