Mary Astell Quotes

We all agree that its fit to be as Happy as we can, and we need no Instructor to teach us this Knowledge, 'tis born with us, and is inseparable from our Being, but we very much need to be Inform'd what is the true Way to Happiness.

Mary Astell

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• Perhaps things are not things but words: metaphors, words for other things.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Words
  • Things
  • Other

• I have fallen in love so many times. If one relationship ended, I would search for another girl. I was always madly in love with all the girls that I dated.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Love
  • Girl
  • Relationship

• Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Great
  • Artist
  • Poetry

• In fighting, you're not going 200 mph, but there's obviously danger in the sport. If you're a fighter or a NASCAR driver, you're obviously an adrenaline junkie. Both also take a lot of skill.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • You
  • Fighting
  • Fighter

• Humility is a good estate; founded thereon, the whole spiritual edifice grows into a holy temple in the Lord. Through humility, some have even possessed the gates of their enemies. For which of the virtues is so mighty to subdue the pride of demons and the tyranny of men?

  

  Saint Bernard
  • Good
  • Men
  • Spiritual

• Plastic surgery and breast implants are fine for people who want that, if it makes them feel better about who they are. But, it makes these people, actors especially, fantasy figures for a fantasy world. Acting is about being real being honest.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • People
  • World
  • Real

• I don't have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler place.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Funny
  • Humor
  • Sense Of Humor

• I just wish that people will be kinder to me when I pass away.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • Away
  • Pass

• The voters in District 8 shared our vision that Washington is broken, and we're going to go up there and fix it.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Up
  • Vision
  • Broken

• I went to art school, I think it helped me a great deal because it taught me who I am.

  

  Jackie DeShannon
  • Great
  • School
  • Art

• Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my children not to worry about their grades but to enjoy learning.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Children
  • Education
  • College

• I was getting a little bored with my hair. It's kind of a symbolic thing, just getting rid of the past, moving forward. It's amazing what a reaction you get when you cut your hair.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Past
  • Amazing
  • Moving

• Food is my favourite thing in the world. I always say if I ate what I actually wanted to eat I'd be in one of those electronic scooters because I'd be too big.

  

  Sam Smith
  • World
  • Food
  • Always

• When I'm doing my own makeup, I just stick to a bit of black liner, some blush and a nude glossy lip.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Black
  • Doing
  • Makeup

• I am about safety for the people and the planet.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • People
  • Safety
  • Planet

• I sort of fall apart in terms of stamina after about 25 minutes!

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Fall
  • Minutes
  • Stamina

• I do watch 'Revenge,' 'American Horror Story' and 'Game of Thrones.' I am behind on all of them. But I do watch them. Those are my go-to shows.

  

  Lana Parrilla
  • Shows
  • Revenge
  • Game of Thrones

• You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.

  

  Jack Welch
  • People
  • Know
  • Stand

• We take comfort, however, that mystery is not a synonym for contradiction.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Mystery
  • Comfort
  • Contradiction

• Liberals are always proposing perfectly insane ideas, laws that will make everybody happy, laws that will make everything right, make us live forever, and all be rich. Conservatives are never that stupid.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Live
  • Happy
  • Forever

• Our sages developed music from time immemorial to take shelter in one's true self. Real music is not for wealth, not for honors, or not even for the joys of the mind - it is a path for realization and salvation.

  

  Ali Akbar Khan
  • Time
  • Music
  • Mind

• If you're so afraid of failure, you will never succeed. You have to take chances.

  

  Mario Andretti
  • Failure

• On my face extended flat

  

  W. S. Gilbert
  • Cat
  • Doors
  • Keys

• We all agree that its fit to be as Happy as we can, and we need no Instructor to teach us this Knowledge, 'tis born with us, and is inseparable from our Being, but we very much need to be Inform'd what is the true Way to Happiness.

  

  Mary Astell
  • True
  • Happy
  • Knowledge