Quotes - Rachael Modzelewski (rachmodzel) (Independence, OH) Showing 1-23 of 23

#1

“Listen -- strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.”
― Michael Palin

tags: arthurian-legend, monty-python

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#2

“NOBODY EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION!!”
― Michael Palin

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#3

“Don't surrender all your joy for an idea you used to have about yourself that isn't true anymore.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

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#4

“Being a mother can be like drying out the foundations of a house or mending a roof: it takes time, sweat, and money, and once it's done everything looks exactly the same as it did before. It's not the sort of thing anyone gives you praise for.”
― Fredrik Backman, Us Against You

tags: motherhood

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#5

“This mindless tolerance, which places observable scientific facts, subject to proof, on the same level as unprovable supernatural fantasy, has played a major role in the resurgence of both anti-intellectualism and anti-rationalism.”
― Susan Jacoby, The Age of American Unreason

tags: anti-intellectualism, anti-rationalism, facts, fantasy, intelligence, science, tolerance

54 likes

#6

“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.”
― Jim Henson

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#7

“[Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.”
― Jim Henson, It's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider

tags: childhood, education, learning, teaching

2018 likes

#8

“There's not a word yet, for old friends who've just met.”
― Jim Henson, Favorite Songs From Jim Henson's Muppets

tags: friends, friendship

1603 likes

#9

“The most sophisticated people I know - inside they are all children. ”
― Jim Henson

tags: inner-child, innocence, sophistication

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#10

“If you care about what you do and work hard at it, there isn't anything you can't do if you want to.”
― Jim Henson, It's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider

tags: inspirational, success, work

464 likes

#11

“Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending.”
― Jim Henson

tags: inspirational

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#12

“Watch out for each other. Love everyone and forgive everyone, including yourself. Forgive your anger. Forgive your guilt. Your shame. Your sadness. Embrace and open up your love, your joy, your truth, and most especially your heart.”
― Jim Henson

tags: inspirational-quotes

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#13

“When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope is to leave the world a little better for having been there. ”
― Jim Henson

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#14

“My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here.”
― Jim Henson

tags: henson, hope, humor, inspirational, life

257 likes

#15

“As children, we all live in a world of imagination, of fantasy, and for some of us that world of make-believe continues into adulthood.”
― Jim Henson

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#16

“Please watch out for each other and love and forgive everybody. It's a good life, enjoy it.”
― Jim Henson

193 likes

#17

“It all ends in one of two ways: either someone gets eaten or something blows up.”
― Jim Henson

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#18

“I don't know exactly where ideas come from, but when I'm working well ideas just appear. I've heard other people say similar things - so it's one of the ways I know there's help and guidance out there. It's just a matter of our figuring out how to receive the ideas or information that are waiting to be heard.”
― Jim Henson

tags: creative-process, inspiration

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#19

“I believe that we form our own lives, that we create our own reality, and that everything works out for the best.”
― Jim Henson

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#20

“Yes, its one of the basic truths of the universe,....Things don't disappear. They just change, and change and change again.”
― Jim Henson

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#21

“I guess I was wrong when I said I never promised anyone. I promised me.”
― Jim Henson

tags: kermit, muppets

67 likes

#22

“Everything. I have done everything you wanted...You asked that the child be taken. I took him. You cowered before me. I was frightening...I have reordered time...I have turned the world upside down...And I have done it all for you.
I am exhausted from living up to your expectations.”
― A.C.H. Smith, Labyrinth: A Novel Based on the Jim Henson Film

51 likes

#23

“The beauty of nature has been one of the great inspirations in my life.”
― Jim Henson

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