Ruth Gordon Quotes

I feel that much of the world's sorrow comes from people who are this, yet allow themselves to be treated as that.

Ruth Gordon

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• You're going through the horror of it, you're going through the isolation of it but you're being empowered by reminding yourself that you're connected to everybody else.

  

  Adam Arkin
  • You
  • Yourself
  • Isolation

• If something is mine, then I want to keep it.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Want
  • Something
  • Mine

• Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Like
  • Rome
  • Industrial

• I tell people marriage is a compromise, and so are renovations.

  

  Candice Olson
  • People
  • Marriage
  • Compromise

• Prayer is commitment. We don't merely co-operate with God with certain things held back within. We, the total person, co-operate. This means that co-operation equals committment.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • God
  • Prayer
  • Commitment

• If I don't eat something after I work out, I get shaky and cranky - not a good combination when you're a television host.

  

  Lara Spencer
  • Good
  • Work
  • Television

• I'd rather work all night and sleep all day... perhaps I was a mole in my last incarnation.

  

  Ida Lupino
  • Work
  • Night
  • Day

• To my mind, it is the duty of the younger Negro artist, if he accepts any duties at all from outsiders, to change through the force of his art that old whispering 'I want to be white,' hidden in the aspirations of his people, to 'Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro - and beautiful!'

  

  Langston Hughes
  • People
  • Mind
  • Why

• The brain, which is plastic when young, must be exposed to certain sights early in life, or it will remain blind to those sights forever.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Life
  • Brain
  • Forever

• My wish is to bring my heroes to the big screen, and many of them have already appeared in my films.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Wish
  • Big
  • Heroes

• Basically, my mother couldn't hold a tune and when I was a baby, a rather tactless baby, I would ask her not to sing... you can't get to sleep if someone is singing off key nearby.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Mother
  • Sleep
  • Singing

• For me, I was really lucky to go to a city like Chicago where the team was struggling at the time, and I was able to go in and play right away.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Time
  • Team
  • Me

• I'm an obsessive. When I get a problem, a question in my mind, it can take me over.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Mind
  • Me
  • Question

• Because of the changes in the Padres team I played with last year, I felt like a veteran recently when I worked out with Jason Kendall and he told me he's liked listening to my records since he was a kid!

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Team
  • Listening
  • Year

• It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Good
  • Journey
  • End

• It is often the mistakes of others that benefit the rest of us-and, sadly, not them ... For the antifragile, harm from errors should be less than the benefits.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Rest

• At thirty, man suspects himself a fool;Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan;At fifty chides his infamous delay,Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve;In all the magnanimity of thoughtResolves, and re-resolves; then dies the same.

  

  Edward Young
  • Purpose
  • Fool

• The whole subject-matter of exact science consists of pointer readings and similar indications.

  

  Arthur Eddington
  • Science

• Wie zou weten, hoeveel er in een bakvisziel omgaat?

  

  Anne Frank

• You are something new in this world. Never before, since the beginning of time, has there ever been anybody exactly like you; and never again throughout all the ages to come will there ever be anybody exactly like you again.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Time
  • World
  • Age

• We haven't announced pricing yet, but I think it's compelling given the alternative. It will probably be about 10 cents to the dollar when compared to replacing radios. That's a bargain.

  

  Charles Giancarlo
  • Alternative
  • Bargain
  • Radios

• In every great novel, who is the hero all the time? Not any of the characters, but some unnamed and nameless flame behind them all.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Time
  • Great
  • God

• … Nietzsche’s ideas and plans: for example, the idea of giving up the whole wretched academic world to form a secular monastic community.

  

  Karl Jaspers
  • Up
  • World
  • Giving

• I feel that much of the world's sorrow comes from people who are this, yet allow themselves to be treated as that.

  

  Ruth Gordon
  • World
  • Sorrow
  • Treated