Ella Maillart Quotes

Those who appreciate the ways of simple tribes, where every activity is direct and immediately understandable, are able to live among them.

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• Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Great
  • Women

• In general, I think the world is a good place if you work hard, believe in yourself, have good intentions, and if you are kind to people, I believe that good things happen to you.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.

  

  Yasser Arafat
  • Freedom
  • Hand
  • Fall

• People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • People
  • Young
  • Danger

• I was practically driven to Rome in order to obtain the opportunities for art culture and to find a social atmosphere where I was not constantly reminded of my color. The land of liberty had no room for a colored sculptor.

  

  Edmonia Lewis
  • Art
  • Culture
  • Color

• Filmmaking is a huge privilege; it's not brain surgery. It's art, and art is supposed to be an enjoyable process, and it is an enjoyable experience for me.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Art
  • Experience
  • Brain

• I know you can be up one minute and drop the next, so I'm trying to maintain a steady course so I can have some longevity.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Know

• I knew nothing about martial arts. And I don't really like it! But in the film, I not only had to pretend that I knew all about it, I had to be the best at it. That was very difficult.

  

  Ziyi Zhang
  • Best
  • Film
  • Difficult

• The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Men
  • Teach
  • Busy

• I was brought up in the shadow of the Holocaust. My mother lost most of her family, and I didn't realize how much the guilt of survivorship weighed on her until I was an adult.

  

  Naomi Benaron
  • Up
  • Family
  • Mother

• Dead men tell no tales.

  

  Haniel Long
  • Men
  • Dead
  • Tell

• I just work hard and do things as they come along. But it has been a challenge to learn that I have to say 'no' to things and to know how and what to prioritize.

  

  Hanneli Mustaparta
  • Work
  • Challenge
  • Work Hard

• I love badminton. That's my sport!

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • I Love
  • Sport
  • Badminton

• The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Mind
  • Art
  • Moral

• The positions I played in football, being a quarterback and a defensive back, you had to kind of have a little independent thinking.

  

  Hale Irwin
  • Thinking
  • Kind
  • Football

• I like to see the difference between good and evil as kind of like the foul line at a baseball game. It's very thin, it's made of something very flimsy like lime, and if you cross it, it really starts to blur where fair becomes foul and foul becomes fair.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Good
  • Game
  • Evil

• I've known Mark Hughes for half a lifetime. We joined Barcelona in the same summer of 1986, played together under Terry Venables and Luis Aragones, and have kept in touch ever since.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Together
  • Summer
  • Same

• Madrid is not as big as London, but it is true when you are coming from a big city like Madrid, nothing is going to surprise you, and I am very happy to move to a city like London. It is a big city, and you can do everything you want with the respect that the English people always have.

  

  Fernando Torres
  • People
  • True
  • Happy

• There's something very simple and contemplative about 'John Wick' - what is interesting is that it looks like it was based on an Akira Kurosawa movie.

  

  Keegan-Michael Key
  • Movie
  • Interesting
  • Simple

• I believe if we could enable people to live forever, we should do that. I think this is absolute.

  

  Peter Thiel
  • People
  • Believe
  • Live

• There was buried in Ruth humanitarianism beyond belief, an intelligence he was never given credit for, a childish desire to be over-virile, living up to credits given his home-run power - and yet a need for intimate affection and respect, and a feverish desire to play baseball, perform, act and live a life he didn't and couldn't take time to understand.

  

  Waite Hoyt
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• The big question society will have to answer is whether it wants computers thinking like humans.

  

  David Smith
  • Thinking
  • Society
  • Question

• In all negotiations of difficulty, a man may not look to sow and reap at once; but must prepare business, and so ripen it by degrees.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Business
  • Degrees
  • Difficulty

• Those who appreciate the ways of simple tribes, where every activity is direct and immediately understandable, are able to live among them.

  

  Ella Maillart
  • Live
  • Simple