Robert Lanza Quotes

hen Baillie [Walsh, writer and director] wrote the movie for me I wasn't doing what I'm doing today, so when we actually came to make the movie it seemed silly to change it. But who knows? That's the way things go. What was interesting for me - and what was always interesting in the script - was that you've got someone who appears to have everything, or at least has the opportunity to have everything, and he's f**ked it up, or lost it.

The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost wins.

Hell begins on the day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all the gifts which we have wasted, of all that we might have done which we did not do.

Hope and wishes for all that delights will sour in the midst of action not taken and words unsaid.

We do not ask the right questions when we are young, so we miss the important answers. Now it is too late to ask, too late for the illuminating answers, and the unanswered questions haunt us for a lifetime.

We need new energy back in Washington.

Stasis ... is the norm in American social policy, and innovations ... are the exceptions.

The Palestinians have never lost an opportunity to lose an opportunity.

The commonest error in politics is sticking to the carcass of dead policies.

She had lived her early years as though she were waiting for something she might, but never did, become.

I'll never know, and neither will you of the life you don't choose. We'll only know that whatever that sister life was, it was important and beautiful and not ours. It was the ghost ship that didn't carry us. There's nothing to do but salute it from the shore.

Futures not achieved are only branches of the past: dead branches.

for most of us the space between 'dreaming on things to come' and 'it is too late, it is all over' is too tiny to enter.

In reviewing my life, in tracing its course, I fill my cell with the pleasure of being what for want of a trifle I failed to be, recapturing, so that I may hurl myself into them as into dark pits, those moments when I strayed through the trap-ridden compartments of a subterranean sky

Every day thousands of people bury good ideas because they are afraid to act on them.And afterwards, the ghosts of these ideas come back to haunt them.

Nothing is so irretrievably missed as an opportunity we encounter every day.

Our biggest mistakes, were things we didn't do, companies we didn't buy.

We have years to converse with someone, to blurt and rant, to explain our desires and anger and regrets - and oh how we squander those moments.

...there are persons who seem to have overcome obstacles and by character and perseverance to have risen to the top. But we have no record of the numbers of able persons who fall by the wayside, persons who, with enough encouragement and opportunity, might make great contributions.

Life comes in the form of opportunities, which are easy to recognize, after they have been wasted.

One voyage to the East and a man could live as rich as a lord until the end of his days. When he'd been younger, Davos had dreamed of making such voyages himself. But the years went dancing by like moths around a flame, and somehow the time had never been quite right.

Sometimes it's more important to change politicians than light bulbs.

Held in the palms of thousands of disgruntled people over the centuries have been ideas worth millions - if they only had taken the first step and then followed through.

Someday is a dis-ease that will take your dreams to the grave with you.

The moment had passed, the door between the lives we could have led and the lives we led had shut in our faces.