Katherine Mansfield Quotes

I love the rain. I want the feeling of it on my face.

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• Since 9/11, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public service and international affairs.

  

  Samantha Power
  • People
  • Service
  • Leap

• Any people attempting to govern themselves by laws of their own making, and by officers of their own appointment, are in direct rebellion against the kingdom of God.

  

  Orson Pratt
  • People
  • God
  • Rebellion

• A 'philosophical dictionary' is not a dictionary of philosophy that you use to look up obscure thinkers or recondite terms. It is a collection of brief and pithy essays on diverse topics, informed by one vision, and usually arranged in alphabetical order.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Up
  • Vision
  • Look

• I was in the invasion of Normandy in southern France.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • France
  • Southern
  • Invasion

• I was fortunate enough to visit a lot of beautiful places around the world. The most astonishing and memorable experiences were my trips to Africa and Australia.

  

  Karolina Kurkova
  • World
  • Beautiful
  • Australia

• I've never filed a patent lawsuit. I hope never to file a patent lawsuit. That may be unrealistic, but it would be great if I could avoid doing it... Lawsuits are a ridiculous way to do business.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Great
  • May
  • Business

• Readers want to see, hear, feel, smell the action of your story, even if that action is just two people having a quiet conversation.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • People
  • Action
  • Conversation

• You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

  

  J. Martin Kohe
  • You
  • Day
  • Everyday

• I had a thick accent, and people didn't understand me, and I was ashamed, and I fumbled. I radiated an uncertain energy; sometimes baristas sensed this and wouldn't try to talk to me, and then an insecure voice in my head would cry, 'He's racist!'

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • People
  • Voice
  • Understand

• People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • People
  • World
  • Water

• I don't see myself as a diva at all.

  

  Bebe Neuwirth
  • Myself
  • See
  • Diva

• The Toast's audience is about 30-35 percent male, which shocked me because I would say that we actively try to discourage men from reading our site. Apparently, there's not insignificant number of dudes out there who think that what we are doing is okay.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Men
  • Think
  • Reading

• I certainly love doing comedy and feel most comfortable near it.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Comedy
  • Feel
  • Comfortable

• I think that's a huge theme in superhero books across the board: When you have this massive power, how do you use it responsibly? When do you intervene? Those are the big questions.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Power
  • Think
  • Questions

• Pregnancy isn't 'I can eat whatever I want,' because you have to remember you're going to be stuck with a lot of that weight afterwards that you need to try to get off.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Remember
  • Want
  • Try

• Hollywood has to be a better reflection of the world we live in.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • World
  • Live
  • Reflection

• I established a certain standard of behavior, that, during my playing, there must be no talking.

  

  Ignacy Jan Paderewski
  • Playing
  • Talking
  • Behavior

• I think the phrase that resonates from 'Just One Year' is something I sort of live by: 'The truth and its opposite are flip sides of the same coin.'

  

  Gayle Forman
  • Live
  • Truth
  • Same

• Artists like Otis Redding, Sam & Dave, Albert King, Ann Peebles, Isaac Hayes, and so many more gave me hope when I was an angst-filled teenager trying to make sense of it all... They were my teachers. Through their music, I learned how to live, how to be true to myself, and how to tell my story as a songwriter the way that I was feeling it.

  

  Paul Rodgers Bad Company
  • Music
  • Live
  • Trying

• As a child, I spent a lot of time wandering around the prairies and in the hills, and there was a sense that it was such a wide-open space, and there was kind of a feeling of potential. I could imagine anything happening there.

  

  Arthur Slade
  • Time
  • Feeling
  • Space

• Sam is there, Sam has been playing well, he has been doing great in camp.

  

  Latrell Sprewell
  • Great
  • Doing
  • Well

• I felt like if I wasn't sharing myself physically, I would actually get a chance to see the downfalls of my partner. I would be able to minimize my intake of being disappointed.

  

  Jessica White
  • Partner

• It's not the work or the personality of the founder of a religion that's important, but what its followers do with what they learn...

  

  Charles de Lint
  • Work
  • Important
  • Personality

• I love the rain. I want the feeling of it on my face.

  

  Katherine Mansfield
  • Feeling
  • Rain