Daphne du Maurier Quotes

All autobiography is self-indulgent.

Daphne du Maurier

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• There's always the tendency to transform the Church into an ethical agency, and of measuring the Church by the yardstick of social and cultural utility.

  

  Karl Lehmann
  • Church
  • Social
  • Ethical

• As I moved to less and less diverse places in my life, I realized that white people don't talk about race amongst themselves!

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • People
  • Life
  • My Life

• As a mom, I don't have much time for beauty.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Time
  • Mom
  • Beauty

• I think, when I was younger, I believed in - and yearned for - conventional beauty. I thought there was a spectrum from ugly to beautiful, and that you could objectively plot everyone you saw along it.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • Beautiful
  • Thought
  • Beauty

• On June 23, 1864, Ambrose Bierce was in command of a skirmish line of Union soldiers at Kennesaw Mountain in northern Georgia. He'd been a soldier for three years and, in that time, had been commended by his superiors for his efficiency and bravery during battle.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Time
  • Mountain
  • Battle

• My life has been devoted to the upliftment of the Filipino by reestablishing his identity and dignity.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Life
  • Identity
  • My Life

• I wanted to greet people in Telugu, so I asked someone how to say 'How are you' in Telugu. In fact, I instructed my entire staff to speak to me only in Telugu. So, there were times when I would ask them to translate certain words for me in Hindi, but the effort paid off.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • People
  • Words
  • Effort

• Anything that happens in your life was meant to happen. It is your destiny. I was destined to have the life I have now, and I can't have any regrets.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Life
  • Destiny
  • Regrets

• Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round.

  

  Edmund Waller
  • Circle
  • Round
  • Praised

• Debate is healthy and no one in this chamber - starting with me - has a monopoly on being right.

  

  Ted Kulongoski
  • Me
  • Healthy
  • Starting

• I always said all my life if I wasn't born and they gave me the question I'd say I don't want to be born.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Life
  • Me
  • Question

• I have the same friends and the same bad habits.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Friends
  • Bad
  • Same

• As women, I think it helps that we are complex creatures by nature so just being a woman helps to understand a woman's journey.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Women
  • Nature
  • Journey

• I select a very small number of things to be sceptical about, such as markets, and on these I am hypersceptic. But I want to be fooled by randomness in art. I want the ceremonial of religion; we are made for it.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Art
  • Things
  • Religion

• I was in the streets at eight, nine years old.

  

  Young Thug
  • Years
  • Old
  • Streets

• I don't just want to be someone who hits the ball 100 per cent every time. You can play with freedom and still mix up the pace, mix up the spins and everything like that. That's what I want to be doing, because you get into that very one-dimensional kind of tennis if you don't work on slicing and coming into the net.

  

  Laura Robson
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• But eradicating corruption is not enough to sustain a country.

  

  Eduard Shevardnadze
  • Country
  • Enough
  • Corruption

• I see a lot of scripts, and very few of them leap off the page at you.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • See
  • Page
  • Leap

• I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Life
  • Up
  • Hate

• The organic unity of mathematics is inherent in the nature of this science, for mathematics is the foundation of all exact knowledge of natural phenomena. That it may completely fulfil this high mission, may the new century bring it gifted masters and many zealous and enthusiastic disciples!

  

  David Hilbert
  • May
  • High
  • Nature

• We must never forget that many around the globe are denied the basic rights we enjoy as Americans. If we are to continue enjoying these privileges and freedoms we must accept our mission of expanding democracy around the globe.

  

  James Inhofe
  • Democracy

• To be honest, after you've crossed the line at the Olympic Games, it is bedlam for the next, about, five or six hours. Media, press conference, dope control - you might get some food if you're lucky. You might see family if you're lucky.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Family
  • Food
  • Control

• 'This fellow,' he indicated the woodsman with a sweep of his stick, 'will reliably not become more alive, but he may have friends or family who will be unsettled to find him so extremely dead.'

  

  Tad Williams
  • Family
  • May
  • Friends

• All autobiography is self-indulgent.

  

  Daphne du Maurier