Jane Rule Quotes

Human beings tolerate what they understand they have to tolerate.

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• The thing we often forget to talk about, or perhaps we take for granted, is our country's dazzling beauty. Our natural environment is so much a part of Australia's art, writing, music and culture, both indigenous and non indigenous.

  

  Quentin Bryce
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Country

• Your life, your circumstances change, and you have to continue to grow as a person, and once you have means and opportunity, you have to make different choices to protect what you have.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Life
  • Different
  • Opportunity

• My dad always said that hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard enough.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Work
  • Dad
  • Hard Work

• The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • Challenges
  • Leader
  • Manager

• Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Love
  • Friendship
  • For Her

• If I were running against Chuck Schumer. I would take every one of his Sunday press releases - and there are 52 for as many years as he's been there - and I would ask, 'How many of the things he said he was proposing became law?' I doubt many.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Law
  • Running
  • Doubt

• There's only so much academic disruption that a young child can deal with before he just can't catch up.

  

  Irwin Redlener
  • Up
  • Child
  • Young

• I just wrote what I felt like writing since they seemed to sell.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Writing
  • Like
  • Sell

• Individual potential of life is cosmic potential. Individual is divine deep inside. Transcendental experience awakens that divinity in man. And when you kill a man you deprive him of that birthright of it.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Deep

• I have devoted my energies to the study of the scriptures, observing monastic discipline, and singing the daily services in church; study, teaching, and writing have always been my delight.

  

  Venerable Bede
  • Writing
  • Church
  • Singing

• When I was 13 my dream was to play the U.S. Open. Now it's to win it.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Dream
  • Play
  • Win

• I feel there are tone singers, and there are more vocal gymnastics singers. And I think that's amazing when people can do that, but I think there's room for the tone singers. And there aren't a lot of them.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Think
  • Amazing

• There's no way to reconstruct reality. It happened once. What you do is reinterpret and recreate. Even if you have the person who lived it and did it next to you, the event happened just once.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Reality
  • Way
  • You

• All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Mother
  • Hope
  • Angel

• Now, I mentioned yesterday at the town hall - like America’s first President, George Washington, he understood that democracy can only endure when it’s bigger than just one person. So his willingness to leave power was as profound as his ability to claim power.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Power
  • America
  • Democracy

• And in his hand a sickle he did holde, To reape the ripened fruits the which the earth had yold.

  

  Edmund Spenser
  • Earth
  • Hand

• I definitely have a sexual ego thing. But if I'm suggestive, it's in a nice way. Luckily, no one's ever been hurt...a few girls have passed out, that's all.

  

  Andy Gibb
  • Nice
  • Hurt
  • Ego

• My art is rooted in a single reflection: why am I not as others are? ..my art gives meaning to my life.

  

  Edvard Munch
  • Life
  • Art
  • Why

• You know it is summer in Ireland when the rain gets warmer.

  

  Hal Roach
  • Summer
  • Rain
  • Ireland

• My partner has to have good sized bones.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • Good
  • Partner
  • Bones

• Americans think African writers will write about the exotic, about wildlife, poverty, maybe AIDS. They come to Africa and African books with certain expectations.

  

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  • Poverty

• Human beings tolerate what they understand they have to tolerate.

  

  Jane Rule