Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.
WILLIAM FEATHERI remember people who’d had a lot of hardship during the war. They’d thought we’d won.
More Barbara Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn Quotes
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Awards are wonderful. I’ve been nominated many times and I’ve won many awards. But my journey is not towards that. If it happens it will be a blast. If it doesn’t, it’s still been a blast.
TOM CRUISE -
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
WILLIAM JAMES -
I think the transition between singing covers on a reality show to being able to do my own thing was really exciting. I’m no longer singing covers every second, and people are actually getting to hear my own original music.
MELANIE MARTINEZ -
The act of sex, gratifying as it may be, is God’s joke on humanity. It is man’s last desperate stand at superintendency.
BETTE DAVIS -
What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.
SAINT AUGUSTINE -
Truth needs not flowers of speech.
ALEXANDER POPE -
Yoga releases the creative potential in life.
B.K.S. IYENGAR -
I can’t find words to express my happiness. Here there is no longer anything but God. He is All; He suffices and we live by Him alone.
ELIZABETH OF THE TRINITY -
I should get a few ribs taken out, because I’ll be in a corset for the rest of my life.
HELENA BONHAM CARTER -
The placebo effect is one of the most fascinating things in the whole of medicine. It’s not just about taking a pill, and your performance and your pain getting better. It’s about our beliefs and expectations. It’s about the cultural meaning of a treatment.
BEN GOLDACRE -
And remember this, that if you’ve been hated, you’ve also been loved.
HENRY JAMES -
When you love you should not think you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
KHALIL GIBRAN -
There is an assumption, in attaching Puritan concepts such as ‘successful’ and ‘unsuccessful’ to the awful, final act of suicide, that those who ‘fail’ at killing themselves not only are weak, but incompetent, incapable even of getting their dying quite right.
KAY REDFIELD JAMISON -
There’s a virtue in slowness, which we have lost.
GRAHAM GREENE -
The last thing I want to be known as is ‘The Girl Who Got Raped’. The big turn around you make in your head is from victim to survivor.
TORI AMOS