Emma Goldman Quotes

Nothing would prove more disastrous to our ideas, we contended, than to neglect the effect of the internal upon the external, of the psychological motives and needs upon existing institutions. (p. 402)

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• I was perhaps about 10 years old when a local farmer rang us up to say he had found a young badger and would we take it in. So we did; it was a female called Bessy and she lived in the boiler room. She was extremely intelligent, had a very low opinion of cats but loved the dogs. She was pretty well trained; she went in the car.

  

  Owen Paterson
  • Up
  • She
  • Pretty

• I'm like John Q. Public. I represent what every guy wants and needs.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Guy
  • Like
  • Needs

• I really enjoy dancing. When there's music around, I can't help it; I start dancing, especially when I'm with friends.

  

  Cameron Monaghan
  • Music
  • Friends
  • Help

• After watching me in a larger-than-life character in 'Magadheera,' the audiences didn't accept me as a college–going boy in 'Orange.'

  

  Ram Charan
  • Life
  • Character
  • College

• I would say our sound is soul pop.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Soul
  • Sound
  • Say

• I feel a physical happiness when spring is coming.

  

  Halldor Laxness
  • Happiness
  • Feel
  • Spring

• Countries have largely been left alone to handle or ignore their educational problems as they see fit. In part, this was because we assumed that the contexts and challenges were so different from nation to nation that education could not be tackled at the international level.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Different
  • Education
  • Alone

• I'm looking forward to the day when America will mature to the point that we are a color-blind society. I'm not so sure that in politics that will ever be reality, because politics has a way of separating us based on skin color.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • America
  • Society
  • Reality

• If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Long
  • Find
  • Little

• When I first did 'The Fast and the Furious', I didn't want there to be a sequel on the first one. I thought, 'Why would you rush to do a sequel - just because your first film is successful?'

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Why
  • Want
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• In the Western tradition, the first writers were teachers and historians, vastly traveled, who spiced their reports with fantasies. They were also poets who sang and entertained prince and pauper.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • First
  • Prince
  • Tradition

• I think I'm really good at forgetting about golf when I'm off the golf course.

  

  Inbee Park
  • Good
  • Think
  • Golf

• Before we made films about gangsters, everything was about the royal families. They contain so much drama.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Drama
  • Everything
  • Royal

• The things that make me happiest in the whole world are going on the occasional picnic, either with my children or with my partner; big family gatherings; and being able to go to the grocery store - if I can get those things in, I'm doing good.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • World
  • Good
  • Children

• Outside of a couple of times I ran without eating right or being too tired, I always feel great after I run.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
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  • Couple
  • Tired

• I was on 'Melrose' at a time where we had to all go home and be there at the same time when the show was on, or set your VCR. But that was a big thing, and people of my generation still talk about that. They remember where they were, at what point of their lives that show came, and then talking about it the next day.

  

  Laura Leighton
  • People
  • Time
  • Home

• Live in the world like a waterfowl. The water clings to the bird, but the bird shakes it off. Live in the world like a mudfish. The fish lives in the mud, but its skin is always bright and shiny.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • World
  • Live
  • Water

• I have no desire to sell Rent the Runway. I have a 50-year vision for Rent the Runway, at least, to change consumer behavior and actually put the closet in the cloud.

  

  Jennifer Hyman
  • Desire
  • Vision

• Dropbox, with its emphasis on good old-fashioned hierarchies, is superb at automatically saving one original of each photo I take, whether shot with a phone or a fancy camera. No loops, no duplicates, no confusion.

  

  Jeffrey Zeldman
  • Good

• If your music is great, you will have fans, not because you have spent time chatting on social media.

  

  Bryan Adams
  • Time
  • Great
  • Music

• True love can exist only in freedom from possession.

  

  Shekhar Kapur
  • Love
  • Possession

• It is safer to try to understand the low in the light of the high than the high in the light of the low. In doing the latter one necessarily distorts the high, whereas in doing the former one does not deprive the low of the freedom to reveal itself as fully as what it is.

  

  Leo Strauss
  • High
  • Freedom
  • Light

• Nothing would prove more disastrous to our ideas, we contended, than to neglect the effect of the internal upon the external, of the psychological motives and needs upon existing institutions. (p. 402)

  

  Emma Goldman