Rhett Butler
Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn.
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Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
It had always amazed me how different things looked in a studio compared to how they appeared on TV. In reality the set was a tiny stage in a giant room of cables, cameras, and monitors, all connected trounced a control room full of other monitors and audio equipment. On TV it looked like two people sitting in an office having a conversation.
Who's on first.
An attitude of positive expectation is the mark of the superior personality.
Thank god, it is over, that I have seen it and am able to tell it to the world.
All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up.
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'
A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.
You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.
One sure-fire way to stay creative force yourself to learn something new.
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best. You very often get it.
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
It's showtime !
Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Love is like a mountain, hard to climb, but once you get to the top the view is beautiful.
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
Life is what you make it.
This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.
Mr. Allen, this may come as a shock to you, but there are some men who don't end every sentence with a proposition.
When something is finally obvious that should have been obvious years before, we call it common sense.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
Boldness in business is the first, second and third thing.
Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. It's eternal goal is life.
It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.
There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day , I'd rather have one walk beside me than merely point the way.
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
We loved with a love that was more than love.
Georgia, love is for the very young.
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
In life you can never be too kind or too fair ; everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with.
Are you fit company for the person you wish to become ?
It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.
Well done is better than well said.
I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor'.
Great minds have purpose, while others just have wishes.
If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.
Every artist was first an amateur.
I have spread my dreams under your feet , Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
At ten years old I actually thought that the reason I was getting glasses was that I couldn't tell what my parents looked like, because every time I asked my mother to buy me something she'd say, 'What do I look like - a bank ?'
Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, you can achieve.
Every artist was first an amateur.
We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.
The only genuine love worthy of a name is unconditional.
Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day.
As you live your values, your sense of identity, integrity, control, and inner-directedness will infuse you with both exhilaration and peace. You will define yourself from within, rather than by people's opinions or by comparisons to others.
Would you like to play a game ?
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one's abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them.
Change yourself, change your fortunes.
Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.
Dreams don't work unless you do.
Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.
We must have friendship for all, we must be merciful toward those that are in misery, when people are happy, we ought to be happy, and to the wicked we must be indifferent. These attitudes will make the mind peaceful.
Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.
How do you live ?
This world will always continue to be a mixture of good and evil. Our duty is to sympathize with the weak and to love even the wrongdoer.
Leadership is power to endure an ongoing quest for information or influence not just actual triumphs like making profits or achieving stated objectives.
Those who are fired with an enthusiastic idea and who allow it to take hold and dominate their thoughts find that new worlds open for them. As long as enthusiasm holds out, so will new opportunities.
Get away from her, you bitch !
Hatred paralyzes life, love releases it. Hatred confuses life, love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life, love illumines it.
There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.
I've looked around enough to know that you're the one I want to go through time with.
The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.
Believe that the loose ball that you are chasing has your name on it.
The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.
Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Failure ? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.
What the heart gives away is never gone. It is kept in the hearts of others.
Bad news, compadres, this place is magic as hell.
The best way out is always through.
Soul meets soul on lover's lips.
There's no place like home.
If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.
You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
Anything is possible.
When I exercise, I wear all black. Its like a funeral for my fat.
You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.
Two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.
Trust men and they will be true to you, treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.
Each day I love you more, today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though chequered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory or defeat.
Let's not just transform those in need, we can also find ways to help transform those in power.
Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose.
Find and use your passion, and you'll have a great career. Don't do it, you won't. It's as simple as that.
The dingo took my baby !
A wise man adapts himself to circumstances as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.
"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."
The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.
Love is a thing, well, it's kind of like quicksand. The more you are in it, the deeper you sink. And when it hits you, you've just got to fall.
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter can not understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.