Joan Collins Quotes

The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer.

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• Figure out what you're good at and start helping other people with it; give it away. Pay it forward. Karma sort of works because people are very consistent. On a long enough timescale, you will attract what you project.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • People
  • Good
  • Long

• Love that is not jealous is neither true nor pure.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Love
  • True
  • For Her

• The person who takes the oath of office in the next four months will shape not just the next four years, but the next forty years of our nation. In these next four years, we need proven leadership, proven judgment and proven values. America needs four more years of President Barack Obama.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • America
  • Leadership
  • Values

• I had these experiences as a kid; I remember certain things happening in school that were horrifying that I would see, certain things of violence or certain things of cruelty, but around that, something might happen afterwards to cause everyone to laugh, and that always blew me away.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • School
  • Remember
  • Violence

• The thing about post-traumatic stress disorder, we know about one in five, about 20 percent of individuals that are exposed to a direct traumatic stress will develop this disorder.

  

  Dale Archer
  • Know
  • Stress
  • Percent

• It has been wisely observed by the greatest of modern thinkers that mankind has progressed more rapidly in every other respect than in morality.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • Respect
  • Morality
  • Greatest

• Pride the first peer and president of hell.

  

  Daniel Defoe
  • Pride
  • First
  • Hell

• In the spring of 1993, I married Beverly and moved to the woods. This is something I could never have imagined myself doing.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Myself
  • Doing
  • Spring

• True revolutionaries are like God - they create the world in their own image. Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.

  

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
  • World
  • God
  • Children

• Ever since the 1860s when photographers travelled the American West and brought photographs of scenic wonders back to the people on the East Coast of America we have had a North American tradition of landscape photography used for the environment.

  

  Galen Rowell
  • People
  • American
  • America

• E cada instante é diferente, e cadahomem é diferente, e somos todos iguais.

  

  Carlos Drummond de Andrade

• The Biblical words about the genesis of heaven and earth are not words of information but words of appreciation. The story of creation is not a description of how the world came into being but a song about the glory of the world's having come into being.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • World
  • Song
  • Earth

• 'You seem upset by the fact that we’re hated and feared.''It does give one pause for thought.'

  

  Alastair Reynolds

• I'm not good at being a picture-perfect pop star, happy all the time. If I'm having a bad day, I can't pretend. I'm always a bit unhappy, but that's just me. I like dwelling in my sadness.

  

  Charli XCX
  • Time
  • Good
  • Bad

• Sinatra was just one of Mom's friends.

  

  Lorna Luft
  • Friends
  • Mom

• I have never had anything done to my face because then you end up looking as they all do in America. Look at Judi Dench: she would never be as good if she had had work done.

  

  Joanna Lumley
  • Up
  • Good
  • Work

• I was bit by a dog when I was two years old, and it almost mauled my face. It almost killed and/or blinded me. I was this close to dying at two, which is terrible. I survived it, and there was no head trauma or anything like that. Honestly, it was a miracle.

  

  Charlie Puth
  • Dog
  • Dying
  • Miracle

• I'm proud to be a Lohan, and I will always will be.

  

  Ali Lohan
  • Proud

• Above the care of Nature and of State, Suspended in the noon of Night we wait, All slumber nursing, to make sweet and pure, While secret Nature, weaving works the cure. We are the handmaids of the hollow night, The angels of the dark, restoring sight; We go -- the pains of Day to soothe, console -- Awake, arise! Behold thou art made whole.

  

  Bram Stoker
  • Nature
  • Secret
  • Angels

• The brave and clear platform adopted by this convention, to which I heartily subscribe, sets forth that government in a modern civilization has certain inescapable obligations to its citizens, among which are protection of the family and the home, the establishment of a democracy of opportunity, and aid to those overtaken by disaster.

  

  Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • Family
  • Home
  • Opportunity

• I wish I could have hung out with Patti Smith in the seventies, and also have some crazy times.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Wish
  • Crazy
  • Hung

• I start with a pretty yoga-based warm-up. I do jumping jacks and burpees, and I do a lot of dynamic stretching.

  

  Ethan Slater
  • Yoga
  • Stretching
  • Warm-up

• The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer.

  

  Joan Collins