Phyllis Bottome Quotes

Neither situations nor people can be altered by the interference of an outsider. If they are to be altered, that alteration must come from within.

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• Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Together
  • Technology
  • Wealth

• I realized pretty soon that I have to do more than just play bass in the background way. So, I developed a kind of playing which only a handful of musicians accepted.

  

  Eberhard Weber
  • Pretty
  • Kind
  • Play

• It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.

  

  Jackie Mason
  • Question
  • Health
  • Healthy

• So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Long
  • Freedom
  • Law

• I think it's really important to give back and show other people that you care.

  

  Carly Schroeder
  • People
  • Important
  • Care

• Well, I - you know, the scripture says that God works by faith. And you have to have faith. You have to have trust in God so that God can work.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Work
  • God
  • Faith

• I'm having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
  • Today
  • Same
  • Saying

• If a person studies too much and exhausts his reflective powers, he will be confused, and will not be able to apprehend even that which had been within the power of his apprehension. For the powers of the body are all alike in this respect.

  

  Maimonides
  • Power
  • Respect
  • Body

• Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Men
  • Words
  • Opinion

• If you wanted to show a mirror to people that says, 'You've been drunk on money,' they're not going to want to see it. But if you reflected that mirror on another time they'd be willing to. People will need an explanation of where we are and where we've been, and 'The Great Gatsby' can provide that explanation.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• Men fall in love with their eyes - they like what they see - and women fall in love with their ears - they like what they hear!

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Men
  • Women
  • Love

• It's not that I ever sat down and outlined a trilogy, but I always have a sense of what size an idea is when I start it.

  

  Veronica Roth
  • Start
  • Down
  • Size

• I don't want to rap forever. But I want to be rich forever.

  

  Young Thug
  • Want
  • Forever
  • Rap

• A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • People
  • Going
  • Polls

• When people are in love, I don't see anything wrong with it in the world. If they choose to live their lives and get married, why should we interfere? A lot of people don't agree with me, but that's how I feel.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • People
  • Love
  • Feel

• Many people with dyslexia truly suffer, and their lives are worse off for having had that disability.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • People
  • Many
  • Disability

• If you just did a horror tone throughout an entire movie you almost, as an audience, can get a little bit used to it. But if you're laughing one minute and, you know, somebody's doing something quite horrific the next minute, it's a little more shocking.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • Movie
  • Know
  • Doing

• I believe that there are no mistakes in the universe, so I think it all happens as it should!

  

  Carla Hall
  • Believe
  • Universe
  • Mistakes

• Kochu Maria watched with her cake-crumbs.The Fond Smiles watched Fondly.Little Girls Playing.Sweet.One beach-coloured.One brown.One Loved.One Loved a Little Less.

  

  Arundhati Roy
  • Sweet
  • Beach

• The way I look at it, I'm a guy who acts to live.

  

  Dean Norris
  • Live
  • Guy

• An FBI agent ought to be able to surf the net and look for sites that instruct people how to make bombs.

  

  John Ashcroft
  • People

• Most people use twenty verbs to describe everything from a run in their stocking to the explosion of an atomic bomb.

  

  Janet Fitch
  • People

• I do not hold God ransom to my success; whatever is his will is my way. I stand by moments; I do not stand by time.

  

  Akshay Kumar
  • Time
  • God
  • Success

• Neither situations nor people can be altered by the interference of an outsider. If they are to be altered, that alteration must come from within.

  

  Phyllis Bottome
  • People