Jane Gardam Quotes

English country life is more like Chekhov than 'The Archers' or Thomas Hardy or even the Updike ethic with which it is sometimes compared.

Jane Gardam

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• In our culture, the shame about accidental pregnancy is inextricable from the shame about having had sex. That disapproval of sex is one reason our record with contraception is so poor. If you're not supposed to be sexual, you don't plan for sex. You cross your fingers and hope for the best.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Hope
  • Culture
  • Best

• The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.

  

  F. H. Bradley
  • Knowledge
  • Virtue
  • Self-knowledge

• In terms of Rogers, I can't comment on how other fighters in the UFC would fare with Brett Rogers because that's just speculation.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • Just
  • Other
  • Speculation

• There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.

  

  Malik Bendjelloul
  • Art
  • Like
  • Modern

• Crime stories are our version of sitting round a camp fire and telling tales. We enjoy being scared under safe circumstances. That's why there's no tradition of crime writing in countries that have wars.

  

  Camilla Lackberg
  • Writing
  • Why
  • Fire

• I've always loved writing, and the impulse for me is storytelling. I don't sit down and think: 'What political message can I sell?' I love the creativity of it.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
  • Writing
  • Love
  • Political

• Our vision and commitment is towards the country's progress, its place in the world and the happiness of its people.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • People
  • World
  • Country

• We got orders to strike the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. We had a task force with the Enterprise. We had two or three cruisers and probably eight or 10 destroyers.

  

  Barney Ross
  • Force
  • Three
  • Task

• But as a young kid, I never did, really have an ambition to be a farmer. I never thought, gee, I would like to farm, and I want to raise these crops. I didn't quite know what I wanted to do.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • Want
  • Thought
  • Ambition

• Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer.

  

  Barbara De Angelis
  • You
  • Moment
  • Gift

• When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Up
  • Children
  • Grow

• No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• I learned that when you stand up for what you believe in, you'll get a lot of support. But there are always going to be negative things said about you.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Support

• I don't want to subject myself just to one scheme. I think it's just if you can play, you can play no matter what scheme you play in.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Think
  • Want
  • Myself

• I'm still learning how to do things - like lining my eyes? Forget it.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Eyes
  • Learning
  • Forget

• It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.

  

  Marat Safin
  • People
  • Practice
  • Impossible

• Peace is a day-to-day problem, the product of a multitude of events and judgments. Peace is not an 'is,' it is a 'becoming.'

  

  Haile Selassie
  • Peace
  • Problem
  • Product

• If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Life
  • World
  • Compassion

• People want opportunity so they can earn security.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • People
  • Want
  • Opportunity

• I have people in my family with bipolar disorder, and for years I've watched them struggle with the disorder's extreme moods and often devastating consequences.

  

  Jenna Blum
  • People
  • Family
  • Struggle

• That mercy towards one set of creatures was cruelty towards another sickened his sense of harmony. As you got older, and felt yourself to be at the center of your time, and not at a point in its circumference, as you had felt when you were little, you were seized with a sort of shuddering, he perceived. All around you there seemed to be something glaring, garish, rattling, and the noises and glares hit upon the little cell called your life, and shook it, and warped it.

  

  Thomas Hardy
  • Life
  • Harmony
  • Creatures

• War is not at all such a difficult art as people think. . . . In reality it would seem that he is vanquished who is afraid of his adversary and the the whole secret lies in that.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • People
  • Art
  • Think

• It's really hard for actors to cross over and get any respect as a singer, and if I could just keep it separate and not use my music in movies, it's cool.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Music
  • Respect
  • Cool

• English country life is more like Chekhov than 'The Archers' or Thomas Hardy or even the Updike ethic with which it is sometimes compared.

  

  Jane Gardam
  • Life
  • Country
  • English