Ruth Gordon Quotes

Nothing dates one so dreadfully as to think someplace is uptown. At our age one must be watchful of these conversational gray hairs.

Ruth Gordon

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• A spiritual partnership is a partnership between equals for the purpose of spiritual growth. Spiritual partners use their delightful experiences together as well as their power struggles to learn about themselves and change themselves.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Power
  • Together
  • Change

• It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • People
  • Why
  • Hurt

• I think Mr. Wilson will have to be the rest of the way alone.

  

  Flip Wilson
  • Think
  • Way
  • Alone

• If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples lives for the better. But you can only do that for about 300 people to maybe a thousand people - if you're really prolific and you're working really hard.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • People
  • Change
  • Better

• When you save book reports, art projects and put them in a scrapbook, it shows a kid you care and you are taking an interest in their lives.

  

  Nancy O'Dell
  • Art
  • Book
  • Care

• People never think of entertainers as being human. When you walk out on stage, the audience think, 'Nothing can go wrong with them.' We get sick and we have headaches just like they do. When we are cut, we bleed.

  

  Karen Carpenter The Carpenters
  • People
  • Sick
  • Walk

• In Uzbekistan, hundreds of protesters were recently killed under the corrupt regime of President Karimov in what human rights groups are calling a massacre.

  

  Ed Markey
  • Human
  • Rights
  • Human Rights

• I decided to write 'True Refuge' during a major dive in my own health. Diagnosed with a genetic disease that affected my mobility, I faced tremendous fear and grief about losing the fitness and physical freedom I loved.

  

  Tara Brach
  • True
  • Freedom
  • Fear

• I have been very strongly advocating that poverty must not be used as an excuse to continue child labour. It perpetuates poverty. If children are deprived of education, they remain poor.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Children
  • Education
  • Child

• One of my favorite snacks is Chobani yogurt with Bear Naked granola, because it has all the nutrients I need; it's all-natural, and it has a lot of protein.

  

  Hannah Kearney
  • Favorite
  • Bear
  • Naked

• More people would recognise me in Kingston, but it's rare to go on the road and not get recognised by someone. The problem now is everyone has a camera in their pocket, on their cell phone - at the airport it's difficult to get from point A to point B without taking half an hour because there are so many people taking pictures.

  

  Damian Marley
  • People
  • Road
  • Cellphone

• I was at a party three weeks prior to the murders at Roman Polanski and Sharon Tate's house.

  

  Nancy Sinatra
  • House
  • Party
  • Three

• I thought I'd be doing theater, really. That's all I had experience with growing up. I mean, I saw movies and television, but I don't think I really connected at a young age that that was acting, that that was part of the profession.

  

  Zeljko Ivanek
  • Up
  • Experience
  • Age

• Any work that's worth doing has its challenges as well as its opportunities. That's true if you're running a business, it's true if you're trying to help on a campaign.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Business

• Man's greatest concern is to know how he shall properly fill his place in the universe and correctly understand what he must be in order to be a man.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Universe

• We are not to call for tyranny and bans on freedom. It is obvious that we cannot stop publication of what we view as indecent in our sacred faith...failing to make use of Western freedom of press and other technologies to show the West the values of Islam is intellectual failure and a guilt that should not be linked to Islam.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • Freedom
  • Faith
  • Stop

• But when you think: Tim McGraw,I hope you think my favorite song.The one we danced to all night long:The moon like a spotlight on the lake.When you think happiness,I hope you think: 'That little black dress.'Think of my head on your chest,An' my old faded blue jeans.When you think Tim McGraw,I hope you think of me.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Long
  • Hope
  • Song

• That's sort of what I felt... I miss drinking, I thought bars were truly holy places.

  

  Joe Eszterhas
  • Drinking

• You can cage the singer but not the song.

  

  Harry Belafonte
  • Song
  • You
  • Singer

• Can't is the word that is foe to ambition,An enemy ambushed to shatter your will;Its prey is forever the man with a missionAnd bows but to courage and patience and skill.Hate it, with hatred that's deep and undying,For once it is welcomed 'twill break any man;Whatever the goal you are seeking, keep tryingAnd answer this demon by saying: 'I can.'

  

  Edgar Guest
  • Hate
  • Forever
  • Deep

• When I was younger, I was diagnosed with dyslexia, which meant, for me, sitting in front of a book was really hard - until I discovered Harry Potter, and this character, this 11-year-old boy, who suddenly gets off to school for the first time, captured my imagination, and suddenly reading was fun. Reading was inspiring, and I was motivated.

  

  Princess Beatrice of York
  • Time
  • School
  • Character

• Every intellectual product must be judged from the point of view of the age and the people in which it was produced.

  

  Walter Pater
  • People
  • Age

• Everyone under the age of sixty called it the War Between the States, while everyone over sixty called it the War of Northern Aggression, as if somehow the North had baited the South into war over a bad bale of cotton.Read

  

  Kami Garcia
  • War
  • Bad
  • Age

• Nothing dates one so dreadfully as to think someplace is uptown. At our age one must be watchful of these conversational gray hairs.

  

  Ruth Gordon
  • Age
  • Hair
  • Talking