Judith Butler Quotes

Let's face it. We're undone by each other. And if we're not, we're missing something. If this seems so clearly the case with grief, it is only because it was already the case with desire. One does not always stay intact.

Judith Butler

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• I come from nothing, and growing up, I really didn't have many people to inspire me, at least no good people to inspire me.

  

  Fat Joe
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• If you want your children to bring original ideas into the world, you need to let them pursue their passions, not yours.

  

  Adam Grant
  • World
  • Children
  • Ideas

• Unfortunately, I'm very accident-prone.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Very
  • Unfortunately

• Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Lord
  • Created
  • Sins

• A lot happens in 20 years.

  

  Pat Morita
  • Years
  • Happens
  • Lot

• I love hard punch lines, and I like anything that has a strong point of view.

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • Love
  • Hard
  • For Him

• What are prophecies? Don't we hear them every day of the week? And if one comes true there may be seven blind and come to nothing.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • May
  • True
  • Day

• Fans can never accuse R. Kelly of doing the same thing; I keep mixing it up.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Up
  • Never
  • Doing

• We cannot control what emotions or circumstances we will experience next, but we can choose how we will respond to them.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Experience
  • Control
  • Choose

• I believe if more American children read the Ten Commandments and are taught what they mean, they will predictably engage in less crime.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Believe
  • Children
  • American

• I can tell you where I was when Kennedy was shot - which was in the common room at school. I heard about it on the old valve radio. At the time of Armstrong's landing, I was at university rehearsing a play.

  

  Sam Neill
  • Time
  • School
  • Old

• Whether I build a character from the ground up or develop one, whether within my own copyright or in licensed work, I can step into that character's mind. It takes a kind of voluntary dissociation akin to method acting, military planning, marketing, or detective work: to think like the other guy and work out what he's going to do next.

  

  Karen Traviss
  • Up
  • Work
  • Mind

• The race of children possesses magically sagacious powers.

  

  Gail Godwin
  • Children
  • Race
  • Possesses

• It's a sin to be tired.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Tired
  • Sin

• I'm very careful. I think about everything. Some people go, 'Oh, I went out and bought something and didn't realise how much it was,' but there's no such thing with me. I always think about the future because I never want to go backwards.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • People
  • Future
  • Think

• Nellie Kim, an Olympic champion from the former Soviet Union, got a 10 right after me in '76, but nobody talks about that.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Right
  • Champion
  • Olympic

• I could be winning the decathlon in high school, which I've won twice, yet, if my dad is in the audience, 'Oh look! It's Anthony Quinn.' And I'm like, 'Hello? Kid just got a gold medal. Hello? I'm over here.'

  

  Francesco Quinn
  • School
  • High
  • Dad

• Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Art
  • Painting
  • Diary

• I'm a natural blonde, but I feel like a brunette.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Like
  • Feel
  • Blonde

• When I was 5 and playing against 11-year-olds, who were bigger, stronger, faster, I just had to figure out a way to play with them.

  

  Wayne Gretzky
  • Way
  • Play
  • Stronger

• To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.

  

  Og Mandino
  • Thinking
  • Cold
  • Doing

• I don't admire one particular style, but for evening events, I always look to Grace Kelly for inspiration.

  

  Kylie Bax
  • Style
  • Inspiration

• Grief is love not wanting to let go.

  

  Earl A Grollman
  • Grief
  • Letting Go

• Let's face it. We're undone by each other. And if we're not, we're missing something. If this seems so clearly the case with grief, it is only because it was already the case with desire. One does not always stay intact.

  

  Judith Butler
  • Desire
  • Grief
  • Face