Ellen Glasgow Quotes

The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions.

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• The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Life
  • War
  • Tragedy

• Random chance plays a huge part in everybody's life.

  

  Gary Gygax
  • Life
  • Chance
  • Random

• Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Great
  • Passion
  • Famous

• Don't worry about it. Babe Ruth struck out on occasion, too.

  

  Walter Annenberg
  • Worry
  • Out
  • Too

• Whatever you see - any good results - are all from the pressure.

  

  Ziyi Zhang
  • Good
  • You
  • Pressure

• The amount of culture going on in a small country like Israel is amazing.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Country
  • Culture
  • Small

• Buddhism talks about the possibility of transforming greed, hatred, and delusion. But sometimes need turns into greed.

  

  Jack Kornfield
  • Sometimes
  • Greed
  • Hatred

• With so much evidence of depleting natural resources, toxic waste, climate change, irreparable harm to our food chain and rapidly increasing instances of natural disasters, why do we keep perpetuating the problem? Why do we continue marching at the same alarming beat?

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Why
  • Food
  • Change

• Technically a memoir, 'The Woman Warrior' becomes almost magical through its inclusion of folk tales, dreams, and revisions.

  

  Karen Joy Fowler
  • Woman
  • Dreams
  • Warrior

• There has to be room for people to make mistakes and lead their own lives.

  

  Vanessa Kerry
  • People
  • Mistakes
  • Lead

• I have given you the power of choice, and you only alternate Between futile speculation and unconsidered action.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Power
  • Action

• I am reminded every day of my life, if not by events, then by my wife, that I am not a perfect man.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Life
  • Perfect
  • Wife

• And alien tears will fill for him Pity's long-broken urn, For his mourners will be outcast men, And outcasts always mourn.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Men
  • Tears
  • Outcast

• The danger hidden within Weber's charismatic celebrity is … having a predisposition to imitate any one individual must always have its negative impact especially when the role model does not feel a duty … to instantiate suitable values to adopt.

  

  Jack Gleeson
  • Model
  • Celebrity

• Worrying that banning flag desecration would inhibit free speech reveals a misunderstanding of the flag's fundamental nature.

  

  Adrian Cronauer
  • Nature
  • Free

• I grew as close to Madonna as I've ever been to a woman without being romantically involved.

  

  Nile Rodgers Chic

• I ripped off half my hair with a waxing strip, and it didn't grow back for, like, 5 months.

  

  Kian Lawley
  • Hair

• I'm pretty good at getting things out of the way, especially paperwork. I hate it sitting about, as it somehow weighs me down.

  

  Cherie Lunghi
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Hate

• As far as intellectual training was concerned, my nine years from seven to sixteen were practically wasted.

  

  Mary Augusta Ward
  • Training

• One state retiree, 49 years old, paid, over the course of his entire career, a total of $124,000 towards his retirement pension and health benefits. What will we pay him? $3.3 million in pension payments over his life and nearly $500,000 for health care benefits - a total of $3.8m on a $120,000 investment.

  

  Chris Christie
  • Life
  • Career
  • Health

• The idea of infection began to be taken far more seriously than it ever had before. Hospitals transformed themselves in response to the new plague - sometimes for the better, but often for the worse, as when, in fear, they cast their ulcerated patients out into the streets.

  

  Peter Lewis Allen
  • Fear
  • Taken

• There is an environment where someone is always looking for someone to make an error. They're always looking not for the good things, the wonderful things the president and first lady are doing, they're looking for an error or to criticize. And it's not conducive to good work.

  

  Desiree Rogers
  • Good
  • Work
  • Environment

• A pen and a notebook and a reasonable amount of discrimination will change a journey from a mere annual into a perennial, its pleasures and pains renewable at will.

  

  Freya Stark
  • Pain
  • Journey
  • Discrimination

• The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions.

  

  Ellen Glasgow