Be independent of the good opinion of other people.
ABRAHAM MASLOWI have never consciously exploited the fact that I am a woman. I wouldn’t dare try that even if I knew how to. I have too much respect for my male colleagues to think they would be particualrly impressed.
More Barbara Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn Quotes
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Keep your mouth closed, and let your eyes listen.
LIL WAYNE -
There is a single general space, a single vast immensity which we may freely call void: in it are unnumerable globes like this on which we live and grow, this space we declare to be infinite, since neither reason, convenience, sense-perception nor nature assign to it a limit.
GIORDANO BRUNO -
We seem to gain wisdom more readily through our failures than through our successes.
LEO BUSCAGLIA -
I didn’t have a boyfriend until I was 17. There were boys at school that I would find out later had a crush on me but I was too shy to talk to them.
BLAKE LIVELY -
What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.
THOMAS MANN -
She was the bitter quarrels she had with her brother whom she loved dearly. She was Katie’s secret, despairing weeping. She was the shame of her father stumbling home drunk. She was all of these things and of something more…
BETTY SMITH -
The referee was only five or seven yards away from that incident.
PETER DRURY -
I’m a conduit for telling people’s stories. It’s a privilege.
TORI AMOS -
Your success, your life, your happiness. Don’t let mean people bring that down.
TAYLOR SWIFT -
It would be a little bit hard to fit a treehouse in a New York City apartment.
ABIGAIL BRESLIN -
A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
It’s okay to let go of anyone who doesn’t hold you in your highest light.
SHELEANA AIYANA -
A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction.
OSCAR WILDE -
A wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.
RAINER MARIA RILKE -
Both God’s love and God’s wrath are ratcheted up in the move from the old covenant to the new, from the Old Testament to the New. These themes barrel along through redemptive history, unresolved, until they come to a resounding climax – in the cross.
D. A. CARSON