Christoph Martin Wieland Quotes

Too oft is transient pleasure the source of long woes.

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• I see my role as a scholar announcing that women's feelings of unworthiness and insecurity often may be traced to training in a male-oriented religion, and I'm trying to investigate a richer spiritual life for both sexes.

  

  Barbara G. Walker
  • Life
  • Women
  • Trying

• The response of anybody interested in liberty is that we all have a say and the ability to have an argument is exactly what liberty is, even though it may never be resolved. In any authoritarian society the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside he will come after you.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • May
  • Power
  • Society

• Cable news is more titillating to talk about who's up and who's down and all that nonsense as opposed to what's actually done.

  

  Kal Penn
  • Up
  • Done
  • Down

• Sometimes I'm happy - you can tell via Twitter. Sometimes I'm pissed off - you can tell via Twitter. I just think, at the end of the day, I don't want them to see me as a celebrity; I just want them to see me and say, 'He's like a regular person at his job right now who's mad.'

  

  Wale
  • Job
  • Happy
  • Day

• I love ice cream, and I love chocolate.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Chocolate
  • Ice
  • Ice Cream

• Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for what I love doing.

  

  Barbara Stanwyck
  • Job
  • Career
  • Always

• I love movies, and if the right thing comes along I'm so interested.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Movies
  • Right
  • Thing

• I thought of learning cinematography, so I assisted a cinematographer for an ad.

  

  Fatima Sana Shaikh
  • Learning
  • Thought

• I find Los Angeles to be a place of great physical beauty, in which you have the oceans and the mountains, and there's a vertical sense and a desert light that you can see forever.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • Great
  • Light
  • Forever

• I realized I didn't want to be a photographer. I gave it up, but I still worked that job in the restaurant and I found myself constantly hanging out in the kitchen.

  

  Sally Schneider
  • Up
  • Job
  • Want

• As anyone who has covered the company for any length of time knows, Yahoo's record on major decision-making has been akin to a hippie commune - a lot of wrangling internally in a culture where everyone seems to have a voice and a reticence to push the button to launch.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Time
  • Culture
  • Decision

• If a child plays sport early in childhood, and doesn't give it up, he will play sport for the rest of his life. And if children have a connection with, and are involved in the preparation of, the food they eat, then it will be normal for them to cook these kind of meals, and they will go on cooking them for the rest of their lives.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Life
  • Up
  • Children

• I'd say a good couple of my closest male friends are directors.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Couple

• Working with Bill Cosby was incredible. I was lucky to be a part of that.

  

  Tatyana Ali
  • Working
  • Lucky
  • Incredible

• I was this kid who never sat down. Nobody liked me? Well, I'd make sure they'd like me. I was the class clown, always doing crazy stuff and causing riots.

  

  Bas Rutten
  • Me
  • Crazy
  • Doing

• The family code in Egypt is one of the worst family codes in the Arab world. Polygamy. The husband is having absolute power over the family.

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • World
  • Family
  • Power

• Nobody wants to retire from football.

  

  LaDainian Tomlinson
  • Football
  • Nobody
  • Retire

• Over recent years, urbanisation, globalisation and the destruction of local cultures has led to a rise in the prevalence of mental illness in the developing world.

  

  Iain McGilchrist
  • World
  • Rise
  • Mental Illness

• My grandparents would never admit to being Tasmanian, but I think it's really great and funny. But I guess, in the past, Tasmanians just weren't quite accepted. You had that lazy reference to them being felons.

  

  Jessie Cave
  • Great
  • Past
  • Funny

• The thing about spending a lifetime under a long, bushy cloud of curls is that people naturally began associating me with my hair.

  

  Elaine Welteroth
  • People
  • Long
  • Hair

• Ever since studying in Russia as a college student, I had been in a long-distance, one-sided love affair with Chechnya's remarkable history, culture and rugged natural beauty.

  

  Anthony Marra
  • Long
  • History
  • Culture

• I was 19 or 20 when The Beatles were at their peak, and I was coming up to the peak of my career, too. I was also the first footballer to have long hair, and that's how I got my nickname 'the Fifth Beatle.'

  

  George Best
  • Up
  • Long
  • Career

• A framed photo on a dusty bookshelf caught his attention; he moved closer and picked it up silently. A small girl with long blond hair was standing under a tree, her face tilted up in delight as its feathery leaves brushed across her face, framing it. A willow tree. Willow.

  

  L.A. Weatherly
  • Up
  • Long
  • Girl

• Too oft is transient pleasure the source of long woes.

  

  Christoph Martin Wieland
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