Sally Ride Quotes

My parents must have done a great job. Anytime I wanted to pursue something that they weren't familiar with, that was not part of their lifestyle, they let me go ahead and do it.

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• To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.

  

  Tacitus
  • May
  • Show
  • Resentment

• But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Science
  • Science fiction

• Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Smart
  • Poverty
  • Immigration

• By 1892, enlightenment had progressed to the point where the Salem trials were simply an embarrassing blot on the history of New England. They were a part of the past that was best forgotten: a reminder of how far the human race had come in two centuries.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • History
  • Past
  • Best

• You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

  

  Wayne Gretzky
  • You
  • Take
  • Shots

• To gain strength in our struggles, we must have a positive perspective of the principles in the plan of salvation. We must realize that we have a personal Savior whom we can trust and turn to in our times of need.

  

  L. Lionel Kendrick
  • Trust
  • Positive
  • Perspective

• Within the sphere of steampunk, there seems to be a rapidly growing subsphere of gadgetless 'neo-Victorian' novels, most of which attempt to recapture the romance of the era without all the sociopolitical ugliness.

  

  N. K. Jemisin
  • Growing
  • Without
  • Romance

• Our Nation must provide sufficient access to healthcare, adequate benefits, and the supplemental resources our veterans were promised and so dearly need. We owe our heroes no less.

  

  Dan Lipinski
  • Health care
  • Heroes
  • Veterans

• I don't look at myself as suffering.

  

  A. J. Langer
  • Myself
  • Suffering
  • Look

• No phone, a movie, a glass of wine, and some salad. Perfect!

  

  Kate Moss
  • Movie
  • Perfect
  • Wine

• Irresponsibility is the mark of every European politician who holds out the promise of a better life to immigrants and encourages them to leave everything behind and risk their lives in setting out for Europe.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Life
  • Risk
  • Better

• These movies are like my kids. I just love them to death. Some of them go to Harvard and some of them can barely graduate high school.

  

  Barry Sonnenfeld
  • School
  • Love
  • Kids

• I can't do choreographed movement. It has to come from my heart... and my pelvis.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Heart
  • Movement
  • Come

• A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • Book
  • Ignore

• On The Practice, I get to do what I love to do, and I am making a contribution that will, in the end, help raise social consciousness, dispel some of the myths about being large, and change the way that people view and interact with large people.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • People
  • Love
  • Help

• Winning and making history is something you can't buy. Me? I'm a guy who loves history. When I'm 60 or 70, I don't want to be remembered for the money I make. I want to be in the history books.

  

  LaMarr Woodley
  • Money
  • History
  • Guy

• By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Excellence
  • Contemplation

• The patchwork political landscape of the Arab world - the client monarchies, degenerated nationalist dictatorships, and the imperial petrol stations known as the Gulf states - was the outcome of an intensive experience of Anglo-French colonialism.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • World
  • Experience
  • Political

• Every action that we take has some motivation of either being selfish or altruistic. All that adds up.

  

  Adam Yauch The Beastie Boys
  • Up
  • Action
  • motivation

• L.A.'s pretty great, man. But I'll be very honest - I prefer New York. It's more my speed.

  

  Jerrod Carmichael
  • Great
  • Pretty

• When you're bi-racial, in the town I was in, in Maine, people kept asking, 'What are you?' It was like I wasn't even human.

  

  Alexander Chee
  • People

• The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong!

  

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi
  • Politics
  • Decisions
  • Doors

• For a person who cherishes compassion and love, the practice of tolerance is essential, and for that, and enemy is indispinsable. So we should be grateful to our enemies, for it is they who can best help us to develop a tranquil mind.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Mind
  • Help
  • Practice

• My parents must have done a great job. Anytime I wanted to pursue something that they weren't familiar with, that was not part of their lifestyle, they let me go ahead and do it.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Great
  • Done
  • Job