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

• This is that which I think great readers are apt to be mistaken in; those who have read of everything, are thought to understand everything too; but it is not always so. Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. We are of the ruminating kind , and it is not enough to cram ourselves with a great load of collections:;; unless we chew them over again, they will not give us strength and nourishment.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Knowledge
  • Mistaken
  • Nourishment

• Between 'St. Anger' and 'Death Magnetic,' we had, if I'm not mistaken, five kids born. And, of course, that would allow things to take time.

  

  Robert Trujillo Metallica
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Mistaken

• The more men believe an idea to be true the greater the likelihood that the idea is mistaken. Those who are right usually stand alone.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Believe
  • Right
  • Mistaken

• I am sensible of the velocity of the moments, and entering that part of my head alert to the motion of the world I am aware that life was never perfect, never absolute. This bestows contentment, even a fearlessness.

  

  Harold Brodkey
  • Life
  • World
  • Perfect

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

  

  Essie Davis
  • Mistaken
  • Flattering
  • Ages