Ina May Gaskin Quotes

Why in the world do the insurance companies get to be the boss of birth? That's what I want to know.

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• I can no longer walk in the street. That's over.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Walk
  • I Can
  • Street

• When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.

  

  Ma Jian
  • People
  • History
  • Moral

• The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Great
  • Business
  • America

• Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.

  

  A. C. Benson
  • Men
  • Doing
  • Ambition

• I like a little bit of designer, with a bit of vintage and high street mixed in. I love it when you find those one-off key pieces, which end up becoming investment pieces.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Like
  • Find
  • Key

• I'm a big foodie and would love to indulge in such things. I've been to many restaurants in the city, and although I can't eat often, I know what's available where.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Love
  • Know
  • City

• I never give advice unless someone asks me for it. One thing I've learned, and possibly the only advice I have to give, is to not be that person giving out unsolicited advice based on your own personal experience.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Experience
  • Giving
  • Me

• The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.

  

  Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
  • Life
  • Time
  • Real

• Guys like Clyde McPhatter used to sing their tail ends off!

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Like
  • Sing
  • Tail

• Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Like
  • Rome
  • Industrial

• Remember that no relationship is a total waste of time. You can always learn something about yourself.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Relationship

• It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.

  

  Aaron Stanford
  • Know
  • Nice
  • Beginning

• I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Give
  • Type
  • Them

• My main point is to be funny; if I can slip a message in there, fine.

  

  Flip Wilson
  • Funny
  • Point
  • I Can

• I kinda went through a semi-depression. Honestly. Like, I lost myself.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • Lost
  • Myself
  • Like

• I've heard things said on football pitches that players clearly don't mean, whether it's racism or just an abusive comment in the heat of the moment.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Football
  • Moment
  • Racism

• The tradition of classical music and the opera is such that it used to be the place where social intercourse could take place between all parts of society: politicians, industrialists, artists, citizens, etc. That tradition, I think, still exists, but it's much, much more diluted.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Music
  • Society
  • Tradition

• Bragging about yourself violates norms of modesty and politeness - and if you were really competent, your work would speak for itself.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Work
  • Yourself
  • Speak

• In Washington, if you're a congressman or a senator or the President, you make much more money than the average American, but you'd think that if you were the leader of the free world you'd be making major bank, and you don't.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • World
  • Money
  • American

• The circumstances of the world are so variable that an irrevocable purpose or opinion is almost synonymous with a foolish one.

  

  William H. Seward
  • World
  • Change
  • Purpose

• The last thing I want to do is to write about real things. I am not interested in reality and in real human beings and their real day-to-day problems - I just want to say to them, 'Hold still, and I'm just going to unpack, see what's inside.'

  

  Andre Aciman
  • Real
  • Reality

• The case of Andrews is really a very bad one, as appears by the record already before me. Yet before receiving this I had orderedhis punishment commuted to imprisonmentand had so telegraphed. I did this, not on any merit in the case, but because I am trying to evade the butchering business lately.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Business
  • Punishment
  • Case

• Why in the world do the insurance companies get to be the boss of birth? That's what I want to know.

  

  Ina May Gaskin
  • World
  • Insurance
  • Companies