Nell Scovell (Helen Vivian Scovell) Quotes

Misogyny - and racism - are 'hidden in plain sight,' and the burden of eliminating them should fall on the institutions, not the victims.

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• I think people appreciate honesty.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • People
  • Think
  • Honesty

• It's hard to have people talking about you and trashing you in the media and saying they think your career is over... and you are only 25.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • People
  • Career
  • Media

• As cheesy as it sounds, all my eggs were never in just one basket. I had a thousand baskets going on.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Never
  • Cheesy
  • Eggs

• Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • Success
  • Step

• It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • Change
  • Me
  • Grief

• One thing you can't intend is how you will be read. I hear it said a lot that my books are about the 'search for identity', and this is said admiringly, as if I meant to encourage such a search.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • You
  • Identity
  • Search

• I was born abroad, but my parents were both English. Still, those few years of separation, and then coming back to England as an outsider, did give me an ability to see the country in a slightly detached way. I suppose I was made aware of what Englishness actually is because I only became immersed in it later in life.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Life
  • Country
  • Parents

• None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Wish
  • Proud
  • Taken

• With 'Mad Men,' people who grew up or were living in that time, they love to talk about what it was really like.

  

  Cara Buono
  • People
  • Time
  • Like

• Governments take too long to get things done and there are far too many varied interests at stake. If you were starting a business today and needed a partner, you would never choose a large bureaucratic institution like the government.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Long
  • Done
  • Business

• Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Control
  • Back
  • Greatest

• If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Kids
  • Practice
  • Better

• I don't like the 'must', the 'always', and the 'never' words. I don't like 'no' either.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Words
  • Always
  • Either

• If India has to achieve exponential growth, it would have to be on the back of strong growth in the manufacturing sector.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Strong
  • Growth
  • Achieve

• According to the papers, I'm miserable, alienated, and on the brink of resignation. But that's simply not where I am.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Miserable
  • Papers
  • Resignation

• There are far too many people in university in Britain. If you want to make money, be a plumber.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • People
  • Money
  • Want

• I'm not a materialistic person.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Person
  • Materialistic

• I came from Canada, where it's freezing cold for seven months out of the year.

  

  Rachelle Lefevre
  • Cold
  • Year
  • Canada

• I was raised by an actress, and I watched all those women turn 60 and ask, Shouldn't get face work? My mother and Anne Bancroft said, We're not going to fall into that.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Work
  • Women
  • Mother

• I like the fact that by mimicking the way memory works, a writer can actually write in a fluid way - one solid scene doesn't have to fall on another solid scene, you can just have a fragment that then dovetails into another one that took place 30 years apart from it.

  

  Kazuo Ishiguro
  • Fall

• Racism cannot be separated from capitalism.

  

  Angela Davis
  • Racism
  • Capitalism
  • Separated

• How do we turn our nation around? President Obama thinks the answer is more and more government. Government is not the answer. You are not doing anyone a favor by creating dependency, destroying individual responsibility.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Government
  • Responsibility

• When flowers are full of heaven-descended dews, they always hang their heads; but men hold theirs the higher the more they receive, getting proud as they get full.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Flowers
  • Heaven-descended
  • Dews

• Misogyny - and racism - are 'hidden in plain sight,' and the burden of eliminating them should fall on the institutions, not the victims.

  

  Nell Scovell
  • Fall
  • Racism