Ella Maillart Quotes

I refuse to imprison our acts in the rigid mould of sentences.

Ella Maillart

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• I can't imagine going on when there are no more expectations.

  

  Edith Evans
  • Imagine
  • More
  • Expectations

• Russians not only vehemently despise blacks, they believe Africa begins at the Ukraine border.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Believe
  • Africa
  • Begins

• Over the years, humans have managed to incorporate nearly every element, light and weighty, common and obscure, into our daily lives. And given how small atoms are and how many of them there are all around us, it's almost certain that your body has at least brushed against an atom of every single natural element on the periodic table.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Small
  • Light
  • Single

• There has always been quite a strong black and white art tradition in Australia, with quite a large contingent of cartoonists, given the size of the population.

  

  Pat Oliphant
  • Art
  • Black
  • Strong

• The idea of being at home and picking up kids from school and cooking dinner and then the husband comes home - there's something that seems really nice to me 'cause I never had that growing up. And it seems so enticing. But in my mind, I'm like, 'Well, I'll just play that in a movie and go about my own life, bizarre as it is.'

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Mind

• My first audition was for a commercial for the lottery. I didn't get it, so I hate the lottery.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Hate
  • First
  • Lottery

• Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.

  

  Pamela Hansford Johnson
  • Only
  • Saints
  • Acceptable

• Lincoln emancipated nobody. The man freed not a single slave.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • Man
  • Single
  • Slave

• It is time for the world, the hemisphere and the region to make sure that relevant institutions of civil society and relevant laws are embedded in the mechanisms of governance.

  

  Baldwin Spencer
  • Time
  • World
  • Society

• We are not Marxist or capitalist; we are for the poor people.

  

  Mamata Banerjee
  • People
  • Poor
  • Poor People

• I've been trying to write a book since before I was old enough to vote, and I've collected many rejection slips from publishers and magazines. I used to keep them all stuck to my refrigerator, with magnets, but an ex-girlfriend told me they were depressing, and defeatist, and suggested I take them down. A very wise suggestion on her part.

  

  J. R. Moehringer
  • Wise
  • Rejection
  • Depressing

• The striking surprise is that prophets of Israel were tolerated at all by their people. To the patriots, they seemed pernicious; to the pious multitude, blasphemous; to the men in authority, seditious.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • People
  • Men

• I love those who yearn for the impossible.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• I consider not what Parmenion should receive, but what Alexander should give.

  

  Alexander the Great

• Κέρδιστον εὖ φρονοῦντα μὴ φρονεῖν δοκεῖν.

  

  Aeschylus

• We loved Neil Young and all the music he's given the world.

  

  Gary Rossington Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • World
  • Music

• You have to understand the role the landlords are playing in shaping neighborhoods, how they potentially expand or reduce inequality, how their profits are a direct result of some tenant's poverty.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • Poverty

• I was excited to turn 60.

  

  Mary Steenburgen

• Acts themselves alone are history, and these are neither the exclusive property of Hume, Gibbon nor Voltaire, Echard, Rapin, Plutarch, nor Herodotus. Tell me the Acts, O historian, and leave me to reason upon them as I please; away with your reasoning and your rubbish. All that is not action is not worth reading.

  

  William Blake
  • History
  • Property
  • Acts

• Vegetarianism is a really important part of what we need to do to help the environment. The meat industry is really toxic to the environment. The cattle industry - besides the fact that there's a lot of cruel things happening - the manure is extremely toxic. We just need to pull back as a culture as much as we can.

  

  Lisa Edelstein
  • Important
  • Help
  • Culture

• Whether it is good or evil, whether life in itself is pain or pleasure, whether it is uncertain-that it may perhaps be this is not important-but the unity of the world, the coherence of all events, the embracing of the big and the small from the same stream, from the same law of cause, of becoming and dying.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Life
  • Law
  • Pain

• I refuse to imprison our acts in the rigid mould of sentences.

  

  Ella Maillart