Essie Davis Quotes

I often get mistaken for all different kinds of ages; some of them flattering, some of them not.

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• Family life is tough, I'll say that for it. But in my case, I've mined the family. In a sense, I've used it. I've used what happened - the different events, the births of children, birthdays. Connecting, not connecting. Regret, shame, guilt. I mean, they're all in the songs. And love, too, I hasten to add.

  

  Loudon Wainwright III
  • Life
  • Different
  • Children

• I don't even like parties.

  

  Doris Day
  • Like
  • Parties

• When it comes to politics, one has to do as one at sea with a sailing ship, reach one's course having regard to prevailing winds.

  

  Mackenzie King
  • Politics
  • Sea
  • Sailing

• There is no lake at Camp Green Lake.

  

  Louis Sachar
  • Green
  • Lake
  • Holes

• I think what grows the economy is when you get that tax credit that we put in place for your kids going to college. I think that grows the economy. I think what grows the economy is when we make sure small businesses are getting a tax credit for hiring veterans who fought for our country. That grows our economy.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Thinking
  • Country
  • Kids

• My definition of evil is unfriendliness.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Evil
  • Definition
  • Unfriendliness

• The whole life of the philosopher is a preparation for death.

  

  Plato
  • Life
  • Death
  • Philosopher

• As a human being Plato mingles regal, exclusive, and self-contained features with melancholy compassion.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Human being
  • Melancholy
  • Features

• There is no better way of industrializing the villages of India than the spinning wheel.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Way
  • Spinning
  • Villages

• I cannot imagine anything nobler or more national than that for, say, one hour in the day we should all do the labor the poor must do, and thus identify ourselves with them and through them, with all mankind.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Imagine
  • Labor
  • Identify

• There is no excuse for it; it has to stop.

  

  Ian Paisley
  • Stop
  • Excuse

• A wit should no more be sincere, than a woman constant; one argues a decay of parts, as to other of beauty.

  

  William Congreve
  • Beauty
  • Wit
  • Arguing

• Your soul is the whole world.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • World
  • Soul

• No one is offended at not seeing everything; but one does not like to be mistaken, and that perhaps arises from the fact that man naturally cannot see everything, and that naturally he cannot err in the side he looks at, since the perceptions of our senses are always true.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • True
  • Mistaken
  • Err

• Natural play strengthens children's self-confidence and arouses their senses-their awareness of the world and all that moves in it, seen and unseen.

  

  Richard Louv
  • Moving
  • Confidence
  • Natural

• You don't actually have control of the position people want you to be in. If they say, 'You king of the blacks,' you're king of the blacks - whether you like it or not.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Control
  • King

• I didn't have parents who were, you know, racing to get a reality television show, you know? Or looking to benefit in some way from their daughter's fame.

  

  Molly Ringwald
  • Mother
  • Reality
  • Daughter

• I often get mistaken for all different kinds of ages; some of them flattering, some of them not.

  

  Essie Davis
  • Mistaken
  • Ages
  • Flattering