Ingmar Bergman Quotes
I had a bad conscience until I discovered that having a bad conscience about something so gravely serious as leaving your children is an affectation, a way of achieving a little suffering that can't for a moment be equal to the suffering you've caused.
Quotes to Explore
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Even in the beginning, when we knew there was a legal argument about how much our song sounds like his song, as one songwriter to another, I wasn't sure that Cat Stevens would take that as bad.
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The number of children is not growing any longer in the world. We are still debating peak oil, but we have definitely reached peak child.
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Not for a moment, beautiful aged Walt Whitman, have I failed to see your beard full of butterflies.
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Clearly, children's charities struggle to find private sources of money to sustain their benevolent programs.
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Once you don't vote your ideals... that has serious undermining affects. It erodes the moral basis of our democracy.
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As a child I experienced firsthand the severe effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially upon women and children. My parents taught me the importance of education and that it was a key to improving an individual's life.
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Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment.
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Getting married and then having children just centered me and grounded my values. It was like a whole new world. It started happening in New York with a little play called Cruise Control, where I relaxed, and then I kept getting work in Hollywood till this series happened.
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I like children - fried.
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There are so many bad influences out there. I don't care if a kid is rich or poor, if he lives in a million-dollar house or the ghetto, he is going to find some sick things on the street. And if we don't clean it up soon, we're all going to pay the price.
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If I have a bad shooting day, my dad will take me to the gym.
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Our minds have a tendency to wander. To duck and feint and keep us at a slight remove from the moment at hand.
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My kids don't go back and forth; none of this 50/50 time with the mums and dads. My children live with me; that is it.
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My favorite moment was in Game 6 when Bill Walton tapped a missed Sixers shot toward the backcourt and Johnny Davis ran it down as the clock expired. We were NBA champions!
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Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children?
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My children went to Bethesda Elementary School. I wouldn't do anything to endanger the safety of Bethesda.
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A dark house is always an unhealthy house, always an ill-aired house, always a dirty house. Want of light stops growth and promotes scrofula, rickets, etc., among the children. People lose their health in a dark house, and if they get ill, they cannot get well again in it.
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Nobody gets any fun out of baseball any more. I guess a kid's crazy not to be serious about it when he's drawing down $20,000 or $30,000 a year, and any smart-aleck gag you try may be your last. But what's life without a laugh?
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I really can't pinpoint the one moment when I said I want to be a comic.
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He and she become selective at different points; she can be selective when he wants his primary fantasy - sex; he can be selective when she wants her primary fantasy - commitment.
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Cooks build muscles; we can stand all day long on our feet and not feel the pain.
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Every line in the government's budget has its own constituency.
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Dark windows are often a very clear proof.
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I had a bad conscience until I discovered that having a bad conscience about something so gravely serious as leaving your children is an affectation, a way of achieving a little suffering that can't for a moment be equal to the suffering you've caused.
