Martha Gellhorn Quotes

Public opinion, though slow as lava, in the end forces governments towards more sanity, more justice. My heroes and heroines are all private citizens.

Martha Gellhorn

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• If I started worrying about how my constituents are going to react to every move I make, I wouldn't be able to do my job here. I'll do what I think is right and explain it later.

  

  Ed Harris
  • Job
  • Think
  • Right

• I'm too self-serious for a comedy.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Comedy
  • Serious
  • Too

• There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Pain
  • Gratitude
  • Revenge

• Today, more than ever, citizens demand with good reason that moral and ethical principles be upheld and that exemplariness preside over our public life. And the king, as the head of state, must not only be an example but also a servant to that just and legitimate demand of the citizens.

  

  Felipe VI of Spain
  • Life
  • Good
  • Today

• So long as you create laws that define women as victims, as creatures that demand protection, that need bodyguards, you are going to perpetuate the very worst of our sexist past.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Long
  • Women
  • Past

• Your genome knows much more about your medical history than you do.

  

  W. Daniel Hillis
  • History
  • You
  • Medical

• About three months before a contest, I drink a lot of water. I start to drink a lot of water.

  

  Takeru Kobayashi
  • Water
  • Start
  • Drink

• You need someone to see what you've done, to read it and to understand it and to appreciate what's gone into it.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Done
  • Understand
  • Appreciate

• I grew up with all kinds of people.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • People
  • Up
  • Kinds

• I've never had an audition like that before. They don't let you know about anything on 'Mad Men,' because it's a spoiler for everybody. I thought I was on the right track when I was cracking everybody up.

  

  Randee Heller
  • Up
  • Men
  • Know

• After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.

  

  Barbara Deming
  • People
  • Society
  • Rest

• We've become slaves to words like 'local,' 'fresh,' and 'seasonal.' We all want to be Thomas Jefferson's agrarian hero, but sustainable food is a difficult beast.

  

  Barton Seaver
  • Words
  • Food
  • Hero

• The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his or her hands in collaboration with other fellow Nigerians and not merely relying on what government alone could provide for him or her.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
  • Alone
  • Government
  • Progress

• As far as my journal, I want to share tour life with my fans.

  

  Natalie Gulbis
  • Life
  • Want
  • Journal

• When I was a child, I grew up speaking French, I mean, in a French public school. So my first contact with literature was in French, and that's the reason why I write in French.

  

  J. M. G. Le Clezio
  • Up
  • School
  • Why

• Only buy clothes that you plan to keep forever. It's important to see trends for what they are: a game.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Important
  • Game
  • Forever

• I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Loved
  • Been
  • Ever

• I still can't believe that I've achieved what I have. It's like I've lived a dream for about five years now.

  

  Karrie Webb
  • Believe
  • Dream
  • Now

• You may lose people you love. You may lose things you had.. but no matter what, never lose yourself.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Love
  • Lose

• And I think it's thanks to Jordan. I would never have done any of this if I hadn't met him, and if he hadn't showed me how to be real and serious with another guy.

  

  Bill Konigsberg
  • Real
  • I Think
  • Showed

• I believe that everyone has a right to have an opinion about things or people, and fortunately, I have been lucky to have heard usually good things about myself. However, I must admit that people can be quite critical about your role also.

  

  Barun Sobti
  • People
  • Good
  • Believe

• I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three years struggle the nation's condition is not what either party, or any man devised, or expected. God alone can claim it. Whither it is tending seems plain. If God now wills the removal of a great wrong, and wills also that we of the North as well as you of the South, shall pay fairly for our complicity in that wrong, impartial history will find therein new cause to attest and revere the justice and goodness of God.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • God
  • Justice
  • Events

• Public opinion, though slow as lava, in the end forces governments towards more sanity, more justice. My heroes and heroines are all private citizens.

  

  Martha Gellhorn
  • Justice
  • Opinion
  • Hero