Freya Stark Quotes

Things good in themselves ... perfectly valid in the integrity of their origins, become fetters if they cannot alter.

Freya Stark

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• You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Done
  • Earth

• The primary problem in many modernizing societies is not liberty but the creation of a legitimate public order. Men may, of course, have order without liberty, but they cannot have liberty without order.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Men
  • May
  • Problem

• If I wasn't in fashion, I would have been a psychiatrist.

  

  Tamara Mellon
  • Fashion
  • Been
  • Psychiatrist

• Most people who have encountered mercury have done so after breaking a mercury thermometer. And many of us who saw the liquid balls of mercury scatter across a floor or countertop considered the element the most beautiful on the periodic table.

  

  Sam Kean
  • People
  • Done
  • Beautiful

• If Obamacare is so wonderful, why is it that its loudest advocates don't want to be subject to it?

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Why
  • Want
  • Loudest

• I wanted to be Beetlejuice. I watched nonstop 'Beetlejuice' and 'The Princess Bride' growing up.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Growing Up

• Sound as medium has an incredible elasticity. So, of course, it is tempting for artists of other fields to try something with sounds. Why not? We are living in the age when there is no limit in gathering all forms of art and music to mix it together if you so desire.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Music
  • Why
  • Art

• One of the saddest things about publishing is how quickly it ages what it touches. The frenzy involved in getting books on shelves, and in putting the word out that they're there, moves at a speed that is not the speed of writing, let alone of reading.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Writing
  • Reading
  • Alone

• I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Money
  • Through
  • Some

• All that I say is, examine, inquire. Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against. Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Believe
  • Why
  • Nature

• I want to live my life naked, with all my little naked kids naked in the garden.

  

  Candice Swanepoel
  • Life
  • Live
  • Kids

• What is right, what is wrong, how can anyone say? I view very, very, few things as Right with a capital R.

  

  Dan Farmer
  • Say
  • Wrong
  • View

• The ingestion of brain-altering chemicals - legal or illegal - cannot be categorized as good stewardship of our earthly lives.

  

  Salvatore J. Cordileone
  • Good
  • Brain
  • Legal

• If we look at the fact that record covers are essentially advertisements for the music, we acknowledge a function and purpose to draw in the prospective buyer.

  

  Beck
  • Music
  • Purpose
  • Look

• My mom told me if I ever got a tattoo, she was going to take it off with a potato peeler.

  

  Jacob Dalton
  • She
  • Me
  • Mom

• Cancer is a scary thing and you have to deal with it seriously.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • You
  • Cancer
  • Scary

• Do I think Vince McMahon was looking at my matches in Japan going, 'We need him?' No. He wasn't. He's too busy. There's no way. But somebody may have been looking and going, 'All right, I like this guy. Let's give him a shot.'

  

  A.J. Styles
  • May
  • Think
  • Guy

• I always follow the same idea: Start small and disrupt to create something big.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • Small
  • Idea
  • Start

• The Pope talks so much shit. The Pope was castigating the media for making gays look normal. YEAH, you're a real GOOD judge of normal, with your gold dress and your matching gold hat, living it up in the Vatican with 500 men surrounded by the finest antiques in the world! Queen, please! You live like Versace did!

  

  Margaret Cho
  • Up
  • World
  • Good

• Art has been good for my soul. And it's been good for my brain. I think I'm a better painter now than I was a musician growing up. You struggle to see things and translate an image through your hands to a canvas.

  

  Anne Sweeney
  • Up
  • Good
  • Art

• I am uncompromising to the point of huge dissension in the studio. And it's served me very well. My theory and my philosophy is, 'Compromise breeds mediocrity.' Obviously, you have to pick your battles, and the more success an artist has, the more they want to be involved in their own career, which is not necessarily a good thing.

  

  David Foster
  • Good
  • Career
  • Success

• The game was very, very good to me. I felt like I was equally as good to the game the way I played it and the way I respected it and the way I carried myself through the process.

  

  Chauncey Billups
  • Good
  • Game

• We should have an easier name to pronounce.

  

  John Oates Daryl Hall & John Oates

• Things good in themselves ... perfectly valid in the integrity of their origins, become fetters if they cannot alter.

  

  Freya Stark
  • Good
  • Integrity
  • Ifs