Elizabeth Goudge Quotes

Better to struggle through life with a broken wing than have no wings at all.

Elizabeth Goudge

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• Women can't be afraid to look like action heroes. It's not always pretty, but when it's on the screen, it translates well to the audience.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Women
  • Pretty
  • Action

• I really don't know the secret to it, but I'd like to think my desirability is a combination of my personality, my image, and, most importantly, the kind of films I do.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Know
  • Kind
  • Personality

• As it is, relationships are difficult, aren't they?

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Difficult
  • Relationships

• Sympathetic cracks. A term frequently used by architects and surveyors in terms of ageing houses. I know what they mean.

  

  Ted Dexter
  • Know
  • Mean
  • Sympathetic

• Any committee is only as good as the most knowledgeable, determined and vigorous person on it. There must be somebody who provides the flame.

  

  Lady Bird Johnson
  • Good
  • Flame
  • Committee

• By packaging a full album into a bundle of music with ringtones, videos and other combinations and variations, we found products that consumers demonstrably valued and were willing to purchase at premium prices. And guess what? We've sold tons of them.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
  • Music
  • Products
  • Consumers

• If you're Irish, it doesn't matter where you go - you'll find family.

  

  Victoria Smurfit
  • Family
  • Matter
  • Find

• I fell in love with 'Star Trek' after J. J. Abrams's movie. I'm so into that.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Love
  • Movie
  • Star

• 'I'm excited by the band White Stripes. It really excites me. But it wouldn't excite me if there weren't those limitations, if we weren't living in that box, if we weren't trapped. Once that goes away, then I'll know that it's not worth doing it any more.'

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Band

• The notion of innate knowledge (including moral knowledge) is rejected, but that of moral sensitivities is accepted.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • Knowledge
  • Moral

• The disappearance of nations would impoverish us no less than if all peoples were made alike, with one character, one face. Nations are the wealth of mankind, they are its generalized personalities: the smallest of them has its own particular colors, and embodies a particular facet of God's design.

  

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  • God
  • Character
  • Design

• Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.

  

  Desmond Tutu
  • Hope
  • Light

• A world where people do not care about the quality of their experience is not a good world for Apple. A world where people care about those details and want to complain about them is the world where our values shine.

  

  Craig Federighi
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• I've got everything I need: a nice piece of land with hawks and owls and incredible sunsets, and the good will of my neighbors.

  

  Burt Shavitz
  • Good
  • Nice

• When I was a prosecutor in Kansas City, my job was to fight for justice and safety for all citizens in my community. Equal access to justice under the law is an American value embedded in the fabric of our legal and political system - the idea that anybody, powerful or not, can have their day in court.

  

  Claire McCaskill
  • Job
  • American
  • Political

• For many people religion can be so easy they stumble right over it.

  

  Kathie Lee Gifford
  • People

• Inequality is partly a marker of success.

  

  Angus Deaton
  • Success

• If I do three interviews in a day, I can be exhausted, because the process of hearing everyone requires that I empty out myself. While I'm listening, my own judgments and prejudices certainly come up. But I know I won't get anything unless I get those things out of the way.

  

  Anna Deavere Smith
  • Up
  • Listening

• I didn't know there was such a thing as professional soccer, but I knew that Brazil had a women's team that competed against other countries, and I wanted to be on that team.

  

  Marta Vieira da Silva
  • Women
  • Team
  • Professional

• Over the years, I began to understand that there were a lot of people out there reading physics in popular literature that they could not understand - not because it was too advanced, but because it wasn't advanced enough.

  

  Leonard Susskind
  • People
  • Reading
  • Literature

• I think both Georges St-Pierre and Anderson Silva are establishing legacies just by how long they've maintained their championship runs. I think both of them still have a lot left in their careers.

  

  Randy Couture
  • Long
  • Think
  • Championship

• I was with my dad 20 years ago as he was dying. I was there at the moment of his death, and I kept wondering the whole while what it must feel like from his point of view to still be there thinking, hearing all that was going on as people came and went, and life continued all around him.

  

  Jill McCorkle
  • People
  • Life
  • Thinking

• One day, I was playing 'The Game of Life,' the board game, with a mess of kids, and I wasn't quite sure how, but it seemed different than the game I remembered playing as a kid. So I bought an old game, from 1960, and it was different.

  

  Jill Lepore
  • Life
  • Different
  • Kids

• Better to struggle through life with a broken wing than have no wings at all.

  

  Elizabeth Goudge
  • Life
  • Struggle
  • Wings