Mary Barnett Gilson Quotes

Education fails in so far as it does not stir in students a sharp awareness of their obligations to society and furnish at least a few guideposts pointing toward the implementation of these obligations.

Mary Barnett Gilson

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• A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Music
  • Art
  • Poetry

• I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.

  

  Larry Wilcox
  • Mind
  • Doubt
  • Regret

• The difference between Amazon and us is Amazon is more like an empire - everything they control themselves, buy and sell.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Control
  • Like
  • Difference

• Writers should provoke disagreement.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Should
  • Disagreement

• A month alone would make me so happy. Not good for my dating prospects.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Good
  • Happy
  • Alone

• I started growing my audience in small clubs through word-of-mouth. I started making music that isn't necessarily commercially viable, and it's not necessarily marketable to my peers to a certain extent.

  

  Kat Edmonson
  • Music
  • Small
  • Growing

• I think in the lifetime of a tennis player there are many times where you feel that tremendous confidence.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • Think
  • Player
  • Confidence

• By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.

  

  Eamon de Valera
  • Up
  • Years
  • Build

• If I could meet Quentin Tarantino, I don't know if I'd just ask him one question. I'd probably milk it into, like, 500 questions.

  

  Madison Davenport
  • Know
  • Question
  • Questions

• Feminists have confused opportunity with outcome.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Opportunity
  • Confused

• I've always been interested in strange foods, coming from all different places.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Different
  • Always
  • Strange

• If someone is making a judgment when they don't have firsthand experience, it's intolerant. How can you make a judgment on something you don't know about?

  

  Beck
  • Experience
  • Know
  • Judgment

• I've been doing lots of trapeze, and so much of it is holding your own weight.

  

  Patina Miller
  • Doing
  • Own
  • Been

• If you live in New York or L.A., and you're liberal, and you're playing to a liberal crowd, it's almost like a rally... it's not edgy.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Live
  • New York
  • Edgy

• So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • Know
  • Price
  • Late

• I embrace my blackness, just as I do my conservatism and my Christianity, but I don't want to be defined or pigeonholed by any one of the many elements that make up my character.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Up
  • Character
  • Want

• When I commit, I commit with my whole heart, my whole being. I know the Bible like the back of my hand.

  

  Barry White
  • Heart
  • Know
  • Hand

• You can be romantically interested in someone and love them and still, I think, be really interested in things and a certain lifestyle that person might provide.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Love
  • Think
  • Person

• I take pride in my craft, and I work extremely hard.

  

  Doug Baldwin
  • Work
  • Pride

• My belief is that no movie, nothing in life, leaves people neutral. You either leave them up or you leave them down.

  

  David Puttnam
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• When someone is wearing a dress that makes her look fat, don't say 'That's a great dress.' It always comes off badly.

  

  Letitia Baldrige
  • Great

• When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings, neglect their duty as members of a family or civil society, and cast off all regard to religion, their case is much to be pitied.

  

  John Woolman
  • Men
  • Family
  • Society

• The North Korean elite does have some sources of hope. The elite itself remains, on the surface at least, remarkably united. The lack of a civil society and very strong social control makes the emergence of resistance difficult.

  

  Andrei Lankov
  • Society
  • Control
  • Resistance

• Education fails in so far as it does not stir in students a sharp awareness of their obligations to society and furnish at least a few guideposts pointing toward the implementation of these obligations.

  

  Mary Barnett Gilson
  • Society
  • Education
  • Obligation