Emma Orczy Quotes

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• What we really need is compassion of the mind - compassion for others that is directed intelligently and produces truly compassionate results.

  

  Harry Browne
  • Mind
  • Compassion
  • Results

• Chinese consumption, particularly high-end consumption, is booming.

  

  Wang Jianlin
  • High
  • Chinese
  • Consumption

• A voyage to Europe in the summer of 1921 gave me the first opportunity of observing the wonderful blue opalescence of the Mediterranean Sea. It seemed not unlikely that the phenomenon owed its origin to the scattering of sunlight by the molecules of the water.

  

  C. V. Raman
  • Opportunity
  • Water
  • Sea

• It's always been my dream to do a dance scene with Anthony Hopkins.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Dream
  • Always
  • Dance

• The sleeplessness is proven; it eradicates your memory.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Memory
  • Your
  • Proven

• We're seeing TV series that are as good as movies were in the '70s and '80s - shows like 'The Wire,' 'The Sopranos' and 'Breaking Bad.'

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Movies

• My mother felt we'd be earning a living during our entire adult lives, and therefore believed we should spend summers in learning activities. Consequently, I got to see a plate glass factory in Pittsburgh, a U.S. Steel plant, and how Heinz made ketchup.

  

  Patricia A. Woertz
  • Mother
  • Learning
  • Plant

• Afghanistan is the land of Pashtuns. It always has been, always will be. We are the true Afghans, the pure Afghans, not this Flat-Nose here. His people pollute our homeland, our watan. They dirty our blood.

  

  Khaled Hosseini
  • People
  • True
  • Dirty

• Everything is funnier in retrospect, funnier and prettier and cooler. You can laugh at anything from far enough away.

  

  Chuck Palahniuk

• I bust raps like the boys bust gat shit.

  

  Outkast

• Rub one out like a man, it's the champagne of victory.

  

  Bill Burr
  • Victory
  • Champagne

• Journalism is about bringing people to an event or something that they couldn't attend.

  

  Chris Milk
  • People

• I've been in the league 12 years. To sit on the bench and complain about the way things were, that doesn't get anything done. I don't know. I'm playing for a championship and trying to make the playoffs. My effort has never changed.

  

  Chris Webber
  • Trying
  • Done
  • Effort

• I think American drama is at its best when it takes the domestic and makes it epic, like a Greek tragedy in the front room.

  

  Anne-Marie Duff
  • American
  • Drama
  • Greek

• I think it’s a good idea to tie Peter Mandelson to a van. Such an act would be cruel and barbaric and inhuman. But it would at least cheer everyone up a bit.

  

  Jeremy Clarkson
  • Up
  • Good
  • Cheer

• The history of cooking is my passion, and cooking is my passion.

  

  Jose Andres
  • History
  • Passion
  • Cooking

• Never underestimate the repellent power of a negative mental attitude. It can prevent life's lucky breaks from benefiting you.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Life
  • Power
  • Attitude

• 'Jaws' freed me to discover that a successful movie didn't make a damn bit of difference to my life.

  

  Lorraine Gary
  • Life
  • Movie

• They drove a long way through the snowy woods, till they came to the town of Pepin. Mary and Laura had seen it once before, but it looked different now.

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Different
  • Long
  • Now

• Well it's not easy being Tiger Woods on the course. It's not easy being Tiger Woods off the course. In his defense, it's not easy being Tiger Woods.

  

  Hank Haney
  • Easy
  • Tiger
  • Woods

• A writer need not devour a whole sheep in order to know what mutton tastes like, but he must at least eat a chop. Unless he gets his facts right, his imagination will lead him into all kinds of nonsense, and the facts he is most likely to get right are the facts of his own experience.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Experience
  • Imagination
  • Order

• Meanwhile, the trees were just as green as before; the birds sang and the sun shone as clearly now as ever. The familiar surroundings had not darkened because of her grief, nor sickened because of her pain. She might have seen that what had bowed her head so profoundly -the thought of the world's concern at her situation- was found on an illusion. She was not an existence, an experience, a passion, a structure of sensations, to anybody but herself.

  

  Thomas Hardy
  • Experience
  • Pain
  • Passion

• Sink me! Your taylors have betrayed you! T'wood serve you better to send THEM to Madam Guillotine

  

  Emma Orczy
  • Woods
  • Betrayed
  • Guillotine