Mary Astell Quotes

The Steps to Folly as well as Sin are gradual, and almost imperceptible, and when we are once on the Decline, we go down without taking notice on't.

Mary Astell

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• You have to be ready for all the games and be at 100 per cent if you want to win in this League.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Want
  • Win
  • Games

• My mind is vacant on names, but I know him as well as anything. When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • Mind
  • Know
  • Him

• If you behave normally, people treat you normally. It's only when you act as if you're someone special that they feel obliged to stand on ceremony.

  

  Victoria Wood
  • People
  • Stand
  • Treat

• There are so many female roles - particularly for young women - that are just somebody's girlfriend or somebody's daughter, or that are accessories to the main story rather than being three-dimensional characters.

  

  Hannah Murray
  • Women
  • Daughter
  • Story

• In fourth grade, I learned that reading was serious business, not just a pleasant way to pass the time, and that like medicine or engineering, it had a definite, valuable purpose: to foster 'comprehension.'

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Time
  • Business
  • Reading

• I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling for him.

  

  Hank Aaron
  • Home
  • Black
  • Myself

• My father has a general rule. He says if I haven't done it in real life I shouldn't do it on-screen.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Life
  • Real
  • Done

• It's always an inner wish of every actor to reach out to maximum audiences.

  

  Irrfan Khan
  • Wish
  • Always
  • Actor

• It is well known that Turkey has more imprisoned journalists than any other country, but as a result of the chilling effect of these prosecutions on the press, many stories never make the news.

  

  Safak Pavey
  • Country
  • Never
  • News

• They were all interested in what I was going to do, because I'd never worked in televsion before.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Never
  • Going
  • Before

• I just do these 'Sleep' type tracks when the situation presents itself. I never set out to do them, like wait all day until I'm really tired or something. Gotta come natural.

  

  Aaron Funk
  • Day
  • Sleep
  • Tired

• It would be a mistake to link anything that Israel does to a certain circumstance. And it is a mistake to feel comfortable in any circumstance just because Israel did not act on it.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • Mistake
  • Just
  • Just Because

• The professed war-weariness among populations who have sent only a small percentage of their sons and daughters to fight in recent wars may derive from a failure to communicate effectively what is at stake in those wars and explain why the efforts are worthy of the risks, resources, and sacrifices necessary to sustain the strategy.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • Why
  • May
  • War

• Song-writing is therapy for me. I'm a very moody person, very difficult to live with. There's a lot going on and a lot of contradictions. My life is always one step away from disaster.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Live

• Un homme se définit aussi bien par ses comédies que par ses élans sincères.1

  

  Albert Camus

• I definitely think that, for a woman, the biggest turn-on is the mind. Otherwise, obviously you want someone who keeps up with himself and has self-respect and self-confidence.

  

  Jennifer Nettles Sugarland
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Respect

• I remain, however, fairly optimistic for the future of period drama because it's just such a popular thing.

  

  Andrew Davies
  • Future
  • Drama
  • Period

• When you put yourself out into the world and say, 'Hey, look at me,' you're going to get criticized.

  

  Pauly Shore
  • World

• [Heraclitus] concluded that coming-to-be itself could not be anything evil or unjust.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Evil
  • Unjust
  • Concluded

• Life is full of risks anyway; why not take them?

  

  Lindsay Lohan
  • Life
  • Why

• Think of yourself as a role model for others-showing that you can be kind, generous, loving, and rich!

  

  T. Harv Eker
  • Model
  • Generosity
  • Self-Esteem

• There's a look people get in their eyes when you're talking to them and they're not seeing you, and you know it's because they have a movie running through their head.

  

  Kim Cattrall
  • People
  • Movie
  • Running

• I wanted to do - there was this film called 'Magic' that Anthony Hopkins did. And the director wanted me. The writer wanted me. Joe Levine said no, I don't want any comedians in this.

  

  Gene Wilder
  • Magic

• The Steps to Folly as well as Sin are gradual, and almost imperceptible, and when we are once on the Decline, we go down without taking notice on't.

  

  Mary Astell