Melissa Etheridge Quotes

We are getting older, and we are getting wiser, and we are getting freer. And when you get the wisdom and the truth, then you get the freedom and you get power, and then look out. Look out.

Melissa Etheridge

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• Milos said, You're my first choice. From my point of view, that doesn't pay the rent. I said, Tell me what I have to do next because I'm busy painting my kitchen.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Painting
  • Kitchen
  • Busy

• I am neither left wing nor right wing. I am middle-of-the-bird.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • Right
  • Bird
  • Middle

• I think God made a woman to be strong and not to be trampled under the feet of men. I've always felt this way because my mother was a very strong woman, without a husband.

  

  Little Richard
  • God
  • Men
  • Mother

• We have to teach our girls that they can reach as high as humanly possible.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • High
  • Girl
  • Teach

• I think that if there are positions that you can't argue... then the responsibility is probably to resign. If one's own conscience is opposed to the requirements and responsibilities of the job, then it's time to leave the job.

  

  Elena Kagan
  • Time
  • Job
  • Responsibility

• When reached for comment on the charges, Martha didn't say much, (only) that a subpoena should be served with a nice appetizer.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Nice
  • Comment
  • Charges

• The undue influence of money on our politics is like a cancer underlying other cancers, the issue underlying all other issues.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Money
  • Politics
  • Cancer

• Practice excited thinking until you become excited and exciting.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Thinking
  • Practice
  • Excited

• The bold are helpless without cleverness.

  

  Euripides
  • Bold
  • Helpless
  • Cleverness

• Let me give you a few simple rules for learning to draw. First, see of what shape the whole thing is. Next, put in the line that marks the movement of the whole. Don't have more than one movement in a figure; you can't patch parts together. Simple lines; then simple values. Establish the fact of the whole. Is it square, oblong, cube, or what is it?

  

  William Morris Hunt
  • Together
  • Giving
  • Simple

• The Prophets Isaiah and Ezekiel dined with me, and I asked them how they dared so roundly to assert, that God spoke to them; and whether they did not think at the time, that they would be misunderstood, & so be the cause of imposition. Isaiah answer'd, I saw no God, nor heard any, in a finite organical perception; but my senses discover'd the infinite in every thing, and as I was then persuaded, & remain confirm'd; that the voice of honest indignation is the voice of God, I cared not for consequences but wrote.

  

  William Blake
  • God
  • Misunderstood
  • Imposition

• General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Man
  • Friendship
  • Benevolence

• You have the Best Of Me.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Best Of Me

• I'm a middle child, and I have a younger sister who is stunning - just beautiful and smart.

  

  Stephnie Weir
  • Beautiful
  • Smart
  • Sister

• If we want money we’ll go to Las Vegas, if we want an after party we’ll go to Miami but if we want to play for love, we still come to India!

  

  Axwell Swedish House Mafia
  • Money
  • Party
  • Play

• Be happy, be happy; you shall have your red rose. I will build it out of music by moonlight, and stain it with my own heart's-blood. All that I ask of you in return is that you will be a true lover, for Love is wiser than Philosophy, though she is wise, and mightier than Power, though he is mighty.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Music
  • True
  • Happy

• It is too often seen, that the wiser men are about the things of this world, the less wise they are about the things of the next.

  

  Edmund Gibson
  • Men
  • Wiser
  • Nest

• We do not get to this age to be written off. Older people can act as a support system, which is what happens more in Mediterranean countries. People become much wiser as they get older and we should value that.

  

  Susan Hampshire
  • Value
  • Wiser
  • Get Older

• We are getting older, and we are getting wiser, and we are getting freer. And when you get the wisdom and the truth, then you get the freedom and you get power, and then look out. Look out.

  

  Melissa Etheridge
  • Wiser