quotes about Great Times

“Philosophy is tested and characterised by the way in which it appropriates its history.”

“I didn’t know what I was supposed to say about that, so I just said, "Wow”

“We wrestle with our own opponents on a daily basis. These challengers can come in numerous forms whether it be a physical challenge, emotional, or even relational issues that can overtake us. No matter what opponent we are wrestling against we can be UNSTOPPABLE.”

“Leisure is gone,--gone where the spinning-wheels are gone, and the pack-horses, and the slow wagons, and the peddlers, who brought bargains to the door on sunny afternoons.”

“Pity is like a knife, sometimes, and it may pierce one who employs it more shrewdly than the victim it would save.”

“My favorite definition of success is that it is a state of mind combined with a state of readiness. You can have one and be a flop; if you have both, you'll win every time.”

“I've made a career over the last seventeen years of mostly playing men in uniform, especially cops. The one thing for an actor that is completely death is if you're bored, because that boredom will show in your work. So there was an inherent challenge in trying to keep it fresh, because it's something that I'm familiar with, but the real draw for me was at long last to work with Halle. She and I had come close to working on two other films together prior to this one that unfortunately had fallen apart for various reasons.”

“There’s only one power in the world great enough to help us rise above the difficult things we face: the power of God.”

“Every time you make a movie it's an adventure.”

“Did St. Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats.”

Source : Rebecca West (2012). “The Saga of the Century: The Fountain Overflows, This Real Night, and Cousin Rosamund”, p.491, Open Road Media