Shawn Mendes Quotes

When I first started playing guitar, so many people told me I couldn't do this or couldn't do that. But I kept at it and ignored that.

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• When you run the marathon, you run against the distance, not against the other runners and not against the time.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Time
  • Distance
  • Run

• I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.

  

  Mamie Van Doren
  • Women
  • Star
  • Woman

• I love the unexplainable. It would be so boring to me if everything could be explained.

  

  Nancy Pickard
  • Boring
  • Explained
  • Unexplainable

• Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination.

  

  Patrick Kavanagh
  • Women
  • Song
  • Imagination

• You see, O Greeks! The enemy already acknowledge the country to be ours; for when they made peace with us, they stipulated that we should not burn the country belonging to the king, and now they set fire to it themselves, as if they looked upon it no longer as their own.

  

  Xenophon
  • Country
  • Peace
  • Fire

• In 1949 - my father stayed on in Shanghai after the war. But in 1949, the Communists took over the whole of China, and in fact, my father was caught by the Communists in Shanghai. And he was there for about a year until he was finally able to get out.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • War
  • Father
  • Year

• Maybe because I'm a child of the '80s, but for me, a sequel is a story that follows the previous one, and sometimes if you haven't seen the original, then you don't understand the second one. Like 'Back to the Future 2.' If you haven't seen the first one, you're not going to get anything out of 'Back to the Future 2.'

  

  Fede Alvarez
  • Future
  • Child
  • Story

• I'll always be back to the stage. I have no doubt that the stage will always call me back. There will always be a character that no one else can play, and I'll be back to play it.

  

  Tammy Blanchard
  • Character
  • Play
  • Doubt

• Professionally, I remember Cronkite as a kid growing up, and more so for me, the importance of Cronkite was not him sitting there at the anchor desk, but him out there doing things.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Growing

• Fiji had experienced the ordeal of two military coups.

  

  Kamisese Mara
  • Military
  • Two
  • Fiji

• I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that's how consensus is constructed.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Good
  • Thought
  • Looking

• I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Painting
  • New York
  • Paris

• When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.

  

  Owen Hart
  • Kind
  • Ever
  • Belt

• As I grew up in that world and saw how much it affected her world and how much it affected our childhood, it made me very aware of politics. Of course, I have my own private feelings and thoughts, but I don't care to share them.

  

  Natasha Richardson
  • Up
  • World
  • Thoughts

• Growing up, you tended to just go through school to get out, then figure out what you want to do in this big ball of mud.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Up
  • School
  • Growing

• It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in that Declaration of Independence.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Time
  • Men
  • Promise

• Millions of people gave their lives fighting fascism and imperialism, but Pearl Harbor was the event that forever changed the course of human history.

  

  Sam Graves
  • People
  • History
  • Fighting

• The mud is cold when you're in the north of Scotland!

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • You
  • Cold
  • Mud

• Our original name was Wild Country, but when we first went to The Bowery, they had the name of all 50 states around the edge of the club, so we went to the sign that said 'Alabama' and stuck our band name underneath it.

  

  Randy Owen
  • Country
  • Band
  • Name

• A lot of people were saying, 'I think you will play good on grass,' and I'm like, 'There's no way. I hate grass. I'm horrible.'

  

  Garbine Muguruza
  • People
  • Good
  • Hate

• Cakes are special. Every birthday, every celebration ends with something sweet, a cake, and people remember. It's all about the memories.

  

  Buddy Valastro
  • People
  • Remember
  • Memories

• I decided early on to be honest and trust people with the truth.

  

  Leo Varadkar
  • People
  • Truth
  • Trust

• Life is not being sure what will come next or how it will come. We guess at everything we do. We take leap after leap in the dark and that's the joy of living and the beauty of faith. When we grow tired, when we sit still, that's when we begin to die.... One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

  

  Angela Elwell Hunt
  • Life
  • Long
  • Joy

• When I first started playing guitar, so many people told me I couldn't do this or couldn't do that. But I kept at it and ignored that.

  

  Shawn Mendes
  • People