Eudora Welty Quotes

Laurel could not see her face but only the back of her neck, the most vulnerable part of anybody, and she thought: Is there any sleeping person you can be entirely sure you have not misjudged?

Eudora Welty

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• Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Inspire

• My parents weren't keen on the giving up of school at the beginning to go into singing and dancing, but once they saw I was serious about it, they gave support. I was quite stubborn about my decision, and in the end, they realised it was for the best.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Up
  • School
  • Parents

• Travel, of course, narrows the mind.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Mind
  • Travel
  • Course

• My music is a personal thing, and I feel like if I talk too much about the songs, or if there's too much of my personal life out there, it ruins it.

  

  Washed Out
  • Life
  • Music
  • Too Much

• I'm not out looking for a cause. They sort of find me or find my heart. But sure, there's always time for that. My big mouth can talk all the time.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Sure

• Liverpool is a massive club in reputation, but as soon as I came here, it felt like Atletico to me. It is a working city, an honest city. The people work all week, and on Saturday they want to go to Anfield and watch the best team in the world.

  

  Fernando Torres
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• Ambedkar was the first person to attain escape velocity and run away to US.

  

  Rahul Gandhi

• ‘Yes, my friend,’ he said. ‘It is so easy to be an American - here in Paris! A nasal voice - the chewing gum - the little goatee - the horned-rimmed spectacles - all the appurtenances of the stage American…’

  

  Agatha Christie
  • American
  • Friend
  • Paris

• Si eres bueno con éste, con aquél dirán que eres bueno. Si eres bueno con todos, nadie dirá que eres bueno.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• We will discover through our own experience that this precious mind of love is the real wish-granting jewel, because it fulfills the pure wishes of both ourself and all living beings.

  

  Kelsang Gyatso
  • Mind
  • Real
  • Experience

• With Digg, users submit stories for review, but rather than allow an editor to decide which stories go on the homepage, the users do.

  

  Kevin Rose

• I am so rich that I must give myself away.

  

  Egon Schiele

• I don't know whether there is anyone else at all who remembers my noble father with such sadness.

  

  Egon Schiele
  • Father

• The private sector is the innovation engine of our economy, and more private-sector businesses and organizations than ever are recognizing that training, promoting, and retaining women is essential to their continued competitiveness - and their bottom line.

  

  Martha McSally
  • Women
  • Training
  • Innovation

• When 'Joy Luck Club' came out, I kind of became a role model for the Asian acting community. I started to talk at colleges and emcee charity things. I'm much more connected to my sense of being Asian now.

  

  Lauren Tom
  • Community
  • Joy
  • Model

• Joining the military is not to be taken lightly. You're putting every part of yourself at risk, not just your body but your moral and spiritual centre.

  

  Kevin Powers
  • Taken
  • Spiritual
  • Risk

• At the end of the day, I continue to think I can get better, and that's always my focus.

  

  Draymond Green
  • Focus

• We have been working towards providing a clean environment to the people of India, and we are doing it out of our own conviction.

  

  Piyush Goyal
  • People
  • Environment

• The plan is to keep on putting out records until someone shows up and tells us to stop.

  

  James Murphy
  • Up
  • Stop

• You know, that's the only good thing about divorce; you get to sleep with your mother.

  

  Clare Boothe Luce
  • Good
  • Mother
  • Sleep

• Der Beruf folgt so wenig aus der Wissenschaft, dass sie ihn sogar ausschließen kann. Denn die Wissenschaft duldet ihrem Wesen nach keine Lösung von sich.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Die

• If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.

  

  Pearl S. Buck
  • Today
  • Search

• And, inasmuch [as] most good things are produced by labour, it follows that all such things of right belong to those whose labour has produced them. But it has so happened in all ages of the world, that some have laboured, and others have, without labour, enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits. This is wrong, and should not continue. To [secure] to each labourer the whole product of his labour, or as nearly as possible, is a most worthy object of any good government.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Government
  • Continue
  • Labour

• Laurel could not see her face but only the back of her neck, the most vulnerable part of anybody, and she thought: Is there any sleeping person you can be entirely sure you have not misjudged?

  

  Eudora Welty
  • Sleep
  • Persons
  • Faces