Martha Graham Quotes

Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.

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• I appreciate cooperation with Turkey on many issues. We are grateful for the support we receive for E.U. and NATO integration for Montenegro.

  

  Igor Luksic
  • Support
  • Grateful

• I'm ambidextrous when I eat. But playing tennis right-handed - I can't do it. I'm clueless.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Playing
  • Tennis
  • Eat

• In international relations, you don't base your work on hope.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Work
  • Hope
  • You

• If the IOC would move the Olympic hockey tournament to the summer, that would be great. We'd be thrilled to have our players participate because then it doesn't affect our season.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Great
  • Summer
  • Hockey

• Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Hope
  • Conviction
  • Turn

• The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Today
  • Science
  • Humanities

• No history can be a faithful mirror. If it were, it would be as long and as dull as life itself. It must be a selection, and, being a selection, must inevitably be biased.

  

  T. E. Hulme
  • Life
  • Long
  • History

• I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Right
  • Wrong
  • Rather

• It seems to me that Halloween is the perfect time to get all over steampunk.

  

  Gail Carriger
  • Time
  • Perfect
  • Halloween

• You do not build your own houses, nor make your own garments, nor bake your own bread, simply because you know that if you were to attempt all these things they would all be more or less ill done.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Done
  • Know
  • Bread

• It is easy to bare your body, but it is difficult to bare your soul. What works for me is that I am not a city-raised boy with city-raised sensibilities. I can play the vulnerable tough man, the guy with a gun in his hand, tears in his eyes, fire in his heart, innocence in him, and in his arms a woman he loves.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Guy

• I have had two knee surgeries on my right knee: that was my jumping leg that I jumped off for years and years.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Years
  • Right
  • Leg

• As for my own music, I've never written a book about it. I'm not pedagogical... When I write an abstract piano sonata or a concerto, I write what I feel. I'm not a self-conscious composer.

  

  Samuel Barber
  • Music
  • Book
  • Piano

• People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • People
  • World
  • Water

• A Commander-in-Chief needs to do two things. One - tell us who the enemy is. And two - say we are fighting to win.

  

  Oliver North
  • Fighting
  • Enemy
  • Win

• I'd rather stay out of the limelight until I've done something I feel proud of.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Done
  • Proud
  • Feel

• I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Money
  • Through
  • Some

• What bothered me was playing one-dimensional parts in films which were really about, 'Boy Meets Girl,' 'Will Boy Get Girl?'

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Girl
  • Boy
  • Parts

• I know a lot of police officers who are on the force to do the right thing to protect people. But how can you deny this pattern, this disturbing pattern, Alton Sterling, Mr. Castile in my own community, Philando Castile, but then Tamir Rice, Mike Brown, Eric Garner, Sandra Bland?

  

  Keith Ellison
  • People
  • Community
  • Police

• The people in Dominica and the small communities where I were had no idea who I was, and there's no better security than that.

  

  James Douglas
  • People
  • Small

• Anyone who is seriously interested in me would usually do a little more homework and realise that the extreme criticisms are almost exclusively ideologically based.

  

  Maurice Strong

• We didn't lose as many lives as had been predicted although we're still in the process of finding those we lost.

  

  Kathleen Blanco
  • Lost

• When you go to heaven you can be what you like and I intend to be a child.

  

  Bosie
  • Heaven
  • Child
  • To Be

• Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.

  

  Martha Graham
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