"I do know that I'm responsible not for……" — Sidney Poitier
"I do know that I'm responsible not for what happens, but for what I make of it."
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88 Quotes by Sidney Poitier
Sidney Poitier has 88 quotes on this site.
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If the image one holds of one's self contains elements that don't square with reality, one is best advised to…
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We suffer pain, we hang tight to hope, we nurture expectations, we are plagued occasionally by fears, we are haunted…
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Marriage is no way of life for the weak, the selfish, or the insecure.
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If you apologize because you are afraid, then you are a child not a man.
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Every new fashion is a form of rebellion.
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History passes the final judgment
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My father was a tomato farmer. There is the phrase that says he or she worked their fingers to the…
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I have a kind of respect-- a worshipful attitude, even-- for nature and the natural order and the cosmos and…
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The journey has been incredible from its beginning.
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I find myself, at this time in my life, no less challenged, no less plagued, no less intrigued by what…
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We're all imperfect, and life is simply a perpetual, unending struggle against those imperfections.
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I think the way I want to think. I live the way I want to live.
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More Happens Quotes
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The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes…
— Hannah Arendt
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I love working with the right actor, and if the right actor happens to be unknown, that should be allowed,…
— J. J. Abrams
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Even in New York, there are a lot of very attractive girls pedaling around. That just happens to be one…
— Paul Auster
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War is what happens when language fails.
— Margaret Atwood
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As soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you're going to say,…
— Margaret Atwood
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Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.
— Marcus Aurelius
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There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.
— Marcus Aurelius
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It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.
— Jane Austen
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You have to protect it too, you can't let just any stupid person take it and do something demoralizing with…
— Paul Auster
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When everything happens to you when you're so young, you're very lucky, but by the same token, you're never going…
— Lauren Bacall
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A Scout is never taken by surprise; he knows exactly what to do when anything unexpected happens.
— Robert Baden-Powell
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