Mary Astell Quotes

Marry for Love, an Heroick Action, which makes a mighty noise in the World, partly because of its rarity, and partly in regard of its extravagancy.

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• This is who I am: a flyspeck of human vanity in a trillion miles of stone-dead interstellar space; a graceless lump of flesh and fear in a remote desert where nearly everything that I can see or touch is designed to hurt me.

  

  S. C. Gwynne
  • Fear
  • Space
  • Hurt

• Of course, as consumers, we want cheap and good products; however, if these production processes are exceeding wastewater discharge standards and even causing heavy metal pollution, they will cause long-lasting damage to the ecological environment and public health.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Good
  • Long
  • Health

• Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind.

  

  Edith Piaf
  • Mind
  • Tell
  • Whatever

• My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Culture
  • Pop
  • Pop Culture

• Every director bites the hand that lays the golden egg.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Hand
  • Director
  • Egg

• At the end of the day, every decision I make about my music is about creating a collective.

  

  Halsey
  • Music
  • Day
  • Decision

• Skysurfing is skydiving with a board on the feet. You can imagine with this big surface of a skysurfing board, there is a lot of force, a lot of power. Of course, I can use this power, for example, for nice spinning - we call it 'helicopter moves.'

  

  Ueli Gegenschatz
  • Power
  • You
  • Nice

• One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.

  

  Karen Mills
  • Important
  • Business
  • High

• I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun.

  

  Babe Ruth
  • Up
  • Women
  • Fun

• My music, I feel, has always been experimental, but it had got to a point where I felt disconnected from it completely. I didn't want to be a Clark Kent/Superman: I couldn't really say, 'Well, B.o.B's the old me, and Bobby Ray's the new me.' I had to just make a point.

  

  Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
  • Music
  • Me
  • Feel

• All politicians should have 3 hats - one to throw into the ring, one to talk through, and one to pull rabbits out of if elected.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Talk
  • Ring
  • Rabbits

• Guys like Clyde McPhatter used to sing their tail ends off!

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Like
  • Sing
  • Tail

• In all honesty, titles are an embarrassment to me.

  

  Edgar Meyer
  • Me
  • Honesty
  • Embarrassment

• When boasting ends, there dignity begins.

  

  Owen D. Young
  • Dignity
  • Begins
  • Boasting

• The way management treats associates is exactly how the associates will treat the customers.

  

  Sam Walton
  • Way
  • Management
  • Treat

• I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we've struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We've made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• I saw myself as a writer, a novelist, even though I was living the life of a mother and housewife. Writing was - and is - what I do.

  

  Tawni O'Dell
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Mother

• I sent 'Hell or High Water' to Peter Berg, asking if he'd like to be involved.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • High
  • Water
  • Like

• It's funny: a lot of roles I do read for mention physical presence - like, 'built like a quarterback' - and for me, it's pretty boring because I don't want that to be the most important thing. I'm not trying to be Dwayne Johnson.

  

  Jai Courtney
  • Important
  • Trying
  • Pretty

• Which is the healthier kind of literary diversity: an un-gate-kept self-published book world, run substantially through Amazon? Or our current book world, which is part-gate-kept, part-not, with many different publishers and retailers and platforms? I'm not smart enough to figure it out, but if I had to guess I'd guess the latter.

  

  Lev Grossman
  • World
  • Different
  • Book

• I have never been on the receiving end of a hate crime, or even a disparaging remark to my face.

  

  Carol Anshaw
  • Hate

• I would never criticize a federal judge, particularly if I had a court case in front of him, but you would certainly never, ever criticize them based on their ethnic background.

  

  Bill Flores
  • Judge

• And living in a metropolitan area which is ethnically diverse, our lives are very complicated, so our emotional experiences are going to be varied like that.

  

  Debbie Harry Blondie
  • Emotional

• Marry for Love, an Heroick Action, which makes a mighty noise in the World, partly because of its rarity, and partly in regard of its extravagancy.

  

  Mary Astell
  • World
  • Action