When I was a teenager in Iceland people would throw rocks and shout abuse at me because they thought I was weird. I never got that in London no matter what I wore.
BJORKI 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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If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY -
I’m not a box kind of gal, so stop trying to make me fit in one.
MELODY LEE -
[On being indecisive and changeable:] On my gravestone I want inscribed: ‘On the other hand, maybe I should have lived.
BARBARA WALTERS -
Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD -
Why don’t they just make mouse-flavored cat food?
STEVEN WRIGHT -
Do not let great ambitions overshadow small success.
MIGUEL ANGEL RUIZ -
Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
WILLIAM JAMES -
From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
EDVARD MUNCH -
The coronavirus pandemic is not a break for nature. Outside urban areas, nature is suffering.
LEONARDO DICAPRIO -
The more human beings proceed by plan the more effectively they may be hit by accident
BILL VAUGHAN -
I’ve had a wordless phase, and that’s still not entirely over: what I sing is not always literally meant that way, and you can hear that in the way it is sung.
BETH GIBBONS -
I don’t know that I want to settle there. I prefer the creative spur of exile. () But wherever I am I shall be Jewish, and that sound will inform every syllable I write.
BERNICE RUBENS -
When you grow up with a name like Brad Thor, people expect you to be 6-foot-4 and a pile of muscles.
BRAD THOR -
The culminating point of administration is to know well how much power, great or small, we ought to use in all circumstances.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU -
Being a Christian means accepting Christ as your savior, your God. Thats why you are called a Christian. If you remove Christ, theres only ian and that means I am nothing.
MANNY PACQUIAO -
You can meet me at local beach. I am waiting for you so that we can find ourselves together between the beach and Heaven.
NIKOL MEJDN -
The willingness to be and to have just what God wants us to be and have, nothing more, nothing less, and nothing else, would set our hearts at rest, and we would discover the simpler life, the greater peace.
ELISABETH ELLIOT -
And so everything I see in this world, it all moves backward and forward at the same time, like a black-smith’s bellows, like everything in my press, turning into its opposite at the command of the red and green buttons, and that’s what makes the world go round.
BOHUMIL HRABAL -
The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
SIMONE WEIL -
Do you want to know what you think about most of the time? Take a look at the results you’re getting. That will tell you exactly what’s going on inside.
BOB PROCTOR -
The expectation of happiness can induce quite the opposite.
SARAH J. MARVIN -
Everyday I am finding neverland in your touch just a little bit more than the day before.
ZUZANNA SZOSTAK -
If it starts to drag on set, or if you feel like it’s not a fun experience, people get down, the energy gets down. You’ve got to keep the energy up.
BILL MURRAY -
[Court] is an institution that depends on making tough decisions in close cases for reasons that it explains well and that, in the past at least, have proven satisfactory to the public.
SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR -
When you are through trying to improve, you are through.
VINCE LOMBARDI -
Men always say, “Let’s see what you can do.” If we always talk and never work we will not accomplish anything.
BELVA ANN LOCKWOOD