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

• We've had a couple momentum shifts throughout the course of the year, and this is what we've been talking about as a group - we want to build the momentum, because now is the time to do it. We've shown signs of this - the Houston game at the end of the road trip.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Time
  • Game
  • Couple

• Judgment of the people is often wiser than the wisest men.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • People
  • Men
  • Judgment

• But what if I fail? You will. A better question might be, ‘after I fail, what then?’ If you’ve chosen well, after you fail you will be one step closer to succeeding, you will be wiser and stronger and you almost certainly will be more respected by all of those that are afraid to try.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Trying
  • Succeed
  • Stronger

• 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