Sidney Poitier Famous Quotes



"We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists ... in the loved one, perfection."


Sidney Poitier Quotations






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Old age equalizes- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.
Jane Harrison

"You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I'm innocent. You've got to believe I'm innocent. If you don't, take my job."
Richard Milhous Nixon

A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.
Mignon McLaughlin

"Music has charms to soothe the savage breast To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak."
William Congreve

"I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant."
Robert McCloskey

The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.
Robert R Coveyou

"Doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself and you see judges everywhere. But if you listen to the sound of your own voice, you can rise above doubt and judgment. And you can see forever."
Nancy Kerrigan

"Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, But rather that it shall never have a beginning."
John Henry Newman

"Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free."
Bible

I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man I want a man without money rather than money without a man.
Themistocles