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

• 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

• Oh my God, I'm so excited. I love Comic-Con, it feels like a weird nerd camp. All my nerd friends are there and all the comic book writers I know and then a lot of actors, too, and you hang out with these people for just a few days, but you hang out with them all day, every day. It's like camp - it's like a weird camp. I love it.

  

  Brea Grant
  • People
  • God
  • Book

• 'The Hummingbird's Daughter' took 20 years to write.

  

  Luis Alberto Urrea
  • Daughter

• Owning great landmarks such as the Empire State Building or Trump Tower or the General Motors Building or the Plaza Hotel - there are certain just spectacular landmarks - it's an honor; it's really an honor.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Great
  • Honor
  • Trump

• I discovered when I was young that I was not like everyone else, and that was great, because it's the people who are different who bring about change and new things.

  

  Paulina Porizkova
  • People
  • Great
  • Different

• I will try to keep my homily brief. But be warned - I'm Irish.

  

  Bono U2
  • Irish

• You need to have a lot of human judgment involved in the financial industry in terms of risk management, in terms of investment decisions, and things that really allow us to blend the best of technology and the human brain.

  

  Adena Friedman
  • Technology
  • Brain
  • Risk

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

  

  Ellen Glasgow