Joan Halifax Quotes

Compassion may be defined as the capacity to be attentive to the experience of others, to wish the best for others, and to sense what will truly serve others.

Joan Halifax

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BestExperienceCompassionWishWill

There was never anything like it before in history. It was a different kind of joyous, happy screaming.

Jo Stafford

HistoryHappyKindNeverAnything

In politics the middle way is none at all.

John Adams

PoliticsWayMiddleNone

We have a saying in the Marine Corps and that is 'no better friend, no worse enemy, than a U.S. Marine.' We always hope for the first, friendship, but are certainly more than ready for the second.

John F. Kelly

FriendshipFriendHopeSayingBetter

I'm direct, I'm unpretentious and I'm pretty dogged, and I hope I've got a capacity to laugh at myself and not take myself too seriously.

John Howard

HopeMyselfLaughSeriouslyPretty

Carl Barks was born in Merrill, Oregon, in 1901, grew up in a farming family, and eventually held a number of blue-collar jobs. He knew what it was to be poor and to work hard for a living.

Michael Dirda

WorkFamilyWork HardBornLiving

I don't know what's going to happen. I'm flavor of the month at the moment, but somebody else is going to roll around the corner in three months' time. I just want to keep working. I can't stop!

Michael Fassbender

TimeMomentStopKnowThreeWant

A picture can say a thousand words but maybe not the correct ones.

Sidharth Malhotra

WordsPictureSayCorrectThousand

I think sport in general affects what people see in movies. I always try to explain to people in Hollywood that we have to make movies more like sport because, in sport, everything can happen and it's so much better than movies in some ways.

Roland Emmerich

PeopleThinkBetterMoviesHollywood

Even as Instagram defines our visual moment, we use the app's filters to travel backwards in time, to make our images resemble the Polaroids of yore by casting them literally in a different, more nostalgic light.

Mary Pilon

TimeLightMomentTravelBackwards

People forget that keeping a band together is hard; man, it's really hard. All the cliches apply about living in each other's pockets; of it being a relationship, a marriage, a family.

Dean Wareham

FamilyMarriageRelationshipTogether

When I did the solo acoustic tour in 2010, I fell in love with that kind of performance.

Chris Cornell

LovePerformanceKindSoloTourDid

I still go to Disneyland as much as I can. The Haunted Mansion is my favorite ride.

Ryan Gosling

RideI CanGoDisneylandStillMuch

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