Letting Quotes

You can't build a plot out of jokes. You need tragic relief. And you need to let people know that when a lot of frightened people are running around with edged weaponry, there are deaths. Stupid deaths, usually. I'm not writing 'The A-Team' - if there's a fight going on, people will get hurt. Not letting this happen would be a betrayal.

Playing the game, representing the team, giving my all and never letting go has meant everything to me.

Father, we thank you, especially for letting me fly this flight - for the privilege of being able to be in this position, to be in this wondrous place, seeing all these many startling, wonderful things that you have created.

Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.

Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.

I play with a fear of letting people down. That's what motivates me.

I'm totally into new age and self-help books. I used to work in a bookstore and that's the section they gave me, and I got way into it. I just loved the power of positive thinking, letting yourself go.

People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.

Grunts on the line, where the enemy wants them dead, still goof off - even knowing that by letting their guard down they might die.

So often we try to alter circumstances to suit ourselves, instead of letting them alter us, which is what they are meant to do.

I was interested in maintaining the dignity and the hearts of the songs, letting them breathe and become what they are.

Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy for promoting the progress of the arts and the sciences and a flourishing culture in our land.

The process of letting go is like taking a journey to the center of your being.

What upset me the most was not that I would die, but that I was letting down my parents. I felt very guilty for chasing this dream career of mine, at the expense of my parents.

When I'm down or maybe when it's close in the match, I feel like I'm still in it. I don't feel like I'm letting down. Mentally, I'm still really, really tough.

I'm very much about letting other people shine, because it makes us all shine brighter.

People make the mistake of drinking the Kool-Aid, believing your own hype, letting people tell you you're this or you're that or you're too this.

I hadn't done just a straight-out comedy in a long time, just letting an ensemble do really good character acting, having them carry the movie as in my earlier pictures.

It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.

Industry entirely left to itself, would soon fall to ruin, and a nation letting everything alone would commit suicide.

It's such a tragedy that man endures in killing his brother and his own kind, putting him in jail and insane asylums, letting him lay out in the street.

Loving someone is setting them free, letting them go.

Within a few hours I had them off, was about ready to play the shows. That night I opened, and during the week Harris was over to the house to talk my mother into letting me leave home.

So it's mix and match. Hold your line when you really feel something you're saying is wonderful and you really want to get this point across and prove it to your partner by just throwing it into the tape and letting it speak for itself.

A big part of letting go is recognizing when it is time to stay in a situation and when it is time to move on.

It's all about letting the story take over.

At school I was always trying to con my teachers into letting me act out book reports instead of writing them.

Soldiers, when committed to a task, can't compromise. It's unrelenting devotion to the standards of duty and courage, absolute loyalty to others, not letting the task go until it's been done.

Somebody's gotta win and somebody's gotta lose and I believe in letting the other guy lose.

I think it is important to maintain a sense of self and confidence, not letting either falter for the sake of a particular part or project, no matter how great it might be.