Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes

It is the preservation of the species, not of individuals, which appears to be the design of Deity throughout the whole of nature.

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• What is more important? What the members of a politicised tribunal say, or what the citizens vote for? For me, it is clear.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Important
  • Me
  • Vote

• I think there's something very dark in the South African psyche. I think we live a lot of the time in a state of a very low-grade civil war; the levels of violence in South Africa are extremely high. In a way, the civil war that never happened is being played out in a covert way, so we live with a lot of very ugly things.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Time
  • Live
  • War

• Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Listening
  • Acting
  • Behavior

• I think some people forget sometimes I do have to go to the grocery store; I do enjoy going out to dinner. I have to get my oil changed from time to time. I do all the normal things. I cut my grass. People kind of forget that normal part, that we do a lot of the stuff that everybody else does, but we all have our talents, and mine is in football.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • People
  • Time
  • Football

• I do Yoga. I'd like to say I do it every morning, but I don't, I just don't have the time.

  

  Radha Mitchell
  • Time
  • Morning
  • Yoga

• I'm really into Greek yogurt, fruit and almonds. Those are my 'go-to' snacks.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • Greek
  • Fruit
  • Yogurt

• The nightmare of materialism, which has turned the life of the universe into an evil, useless game, is not yet past; it holds the awakening soul still in its grip.

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • Life
  • Soul
  • Game

• The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has touched me deeply to see so many thousands of families, neighbors and friends celebrating together in such a happy atmosphere.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • Experience
  • Friends
  • Together

• The mullahs are part of the past in Iran, not its future. But change in Iran will come through engagement, not through confrontation.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Future
  • Past
  • Change

• I knew I wanted to do something creative. I didn't think I'd have the luxury of doing something like that, because I didn't know anyone who had pursued anything they really adored, but I had dreams for singing or writing.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Writing
  • Singing
  • Dreams

• The truth is, when I got started in this business, it wasn't because I had a full understanding of the importance of the business, but because I thought it was fun. I found it exciting. It fulfilled me, whatever it was that I was looking for.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • Business
  • Truth
  • Fun

• I have a different relationship with Chucky because he's been on top of my bookshelf in the corner of my living room for my entire life. He was a great tool for scaring friends, and when I see him in different theme parks I've been to, or in commercials, my heart swells a little bit, and I'm like, 'Aww! It's my Chucky!'

  

  Fiona Dourif
  • Life
  • Great
  • Different

• If I had a spreadsheet on my computer, it looked like I was busy.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Like
  • Computer
  • Busy

• The black community in Hollywood is very small and close-knit. Everyone has a common goal: to make a two-hour movie in 30 days.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Movie
  • Black
  • Small

• Girls are really looking to places that have limits and boundaries: where adults are the adults and there are rules, and where they feel safe.

  

  Caitlin Flanagan
  • Rules
  • Looking
  • Limits

• We cannot control what emotions or circumstances we will experience next, but we can choose how we will respond to them.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Experience
  • Control
  • Choose

• A lot of guys go in immediately for status, as opposed to comfort and allowing their home to tell a story about them.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Home
  • Story
  • Comfort

• I grew up in Florida riding horses, so for the majority of my life I was either in boots and jeans or a bathing suit.

  

  Kate Upton
  • Life
  • Up
  • My Life

• We need not hide anything from Truth, for it never condemns us, but only wishes to help.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Truth
  • Help
  • Wishes

• The most important thing I can say is to make music that moves you. Don't try and chase what's on the radio or what you think people want to hear.

  

  Matthew Ramsey Old Dominion
  • People
  • Music
  • Important

• Head Start graduates are more likely to graduate from high school and less likely to need special education, repeat a grade, or commit crimes in adolescence.

  

  Joe Baca
  • School
  • High
  • Education

• I did a radio interview for a station in Connecticut or something, and it was the worst interview ever. It was all yes and no answers.

  

  Macaulay Culkin

• I have a great love for nature. That must have started somewhere down back home, I think, because my family own one of the better known gardens in Soochow, so I played there, and I lived there, and so I must have absorbed something there. So I continue to have a great interest in nature.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Family
  • Nature
  • Think

• It is the preservation of the species, not of individuals, which appears to be the design of Deity throughout the whole of nature.

  

  Mary Wollstonecraft
  • Nature
  • Design