Jane Rule Quotes

I've never been resigned to ready-made ideas as I was to ready-made clothes, perhaps because although I couldn't sew, I could think.

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• When I go a stretch without tweeting, I will occasionally get an email from my mom, checking in. I always find this amusing but also gratifying: Thanks to Twitter, I can keep in touch with my parents and let them in on what I'm doing in a way that even the regular phone calls of a doting daughter can't do.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Parents
  • Mom
  • Daughter

• At key crossroads in his life, Vernon Davis has continued to make a conscious choice to grow as a person and player. His determination through adversity since his childhood days is commendable.

  

  Hannah Storm
  • Life
  • Player
  • Childhood

• Our forefathers made one mistake. What they should have fought for was representation without taxation.

  

  Fletcher Knebel
  • Mistake
  • Without
  • Taxation

• If you have religious faith, very good, you can add on secular ethics, then religious belief, add on it, very good. But even those people who have no interest about religion, okay, it's not religion, but you can train through education.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
  • Good
  • Faith

• I've been around the track a lot. I've had the best of the years, and I don't want a single year back.

  

  Abraham A. Ribicoff
  • Want
  • Single
  • Best

• I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Live
  • Surrounded
  • Rural

• I think very few people do find a relationship where, every moment of every day, everything they do comes together. That's why, in a nutshell, everyone loved Barbara in 'The Good Life.' She was the perfect partner. It was a formula. She wasn't glamorous. She wasn't clever. But she was a good partner. That's too easy, too perfect.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• It's been so difficult to watch people criticize me and my intentions.

  

  Camila Cabello Fifth Harmony
  • People
  • Me
  • Difficult

• I am much more interested in the process than results.

  

  Ted Allen
  • Process
  • Results
  • Interested

• I just think a hustler's ambition is that I never stop. I start off hustling and said I'll never stop hustling. An ambitious hustler is the one to hustle the hustlers. When I grew up, my heroes were hustlers. Now I'm their hero.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Up
  • Stop
  • Hero

• Hosni Mubarak... his constitution is not democratic, but he is democratic. We can voice our opinions now. The press is free.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Free
  • Constitution
  • Opinions

• I just can't do heels any more. At least not when I'm working. I travel a lot.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Travel
  • Working
  • Heels

• Every theory of love, from Plato down, teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.

  

  G. Stanley Hall
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Individual

• Just like my father, I've always loved education. In school I was a member of the honor society.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • School
  • Father
  • Society

• I believe in working with songs that have personal value for me.

  

  M. Ward
  • Believe
  • Me
  • Value

• Being right is important. Too many great teams march off saying, 'If we build it, they will come,' and then never are able to change the idea towards something that people really want.

  

  Garry Tan
  • People
  • Great
  • Important

• In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Wise
  • Questions
  • Answer

• Is 'I hope you all die a painful death' too strong?

  

  Linus Torvalds
  • Hope
  • Death
  • Strong

• President Clinton is going to embrace President Obama, as he should. They are working together. They're different kinds of people. Obama is cool, Clinton is a schmoozer. Both are great speakers. It's a great merging of the party.

  

  Bill Richardson
  • People
  • Great
  • Different

• I am happy to donate funds to various organizations that help people in need.

  

  Carl Karcher
  • People
  • Happy
  • Needs

• I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Believe
  • Religious
  • Evolution

• I take praise as not just a reward and a result but also as the beginning of a new process.

  

  Christoph Waltz
  • Beginning

• Home is behind, the world ahead, And there are many paths to tread Through shadows to the edge of night, Until the stars are all alight. Then world behind and home ahead, We'll wander back and home to bed. Mist and twilight, cloud and shade, Away shall fade! Away shall fade!

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Home
  • Stars
  • Twilight

• I've never been resigned to ready-made ideas as I was to ready-made clothes, perhaps because although I couldn't sew, I could think.

  

  Jane Rule