Ivy Compton-Burnett Quotes

Our desires have a way of getting bigger with our incomes.

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• Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Never
  • Doing
  • Morals

• My aunt is a newscaster in Lubbock, Texas, and she got a letter that said, 'Natalie Maines will be shot dead at their show in Dallas, Texas,' with the date of our concert. It was freaky to see that in writing.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • Writing
  • She
  • Texas

• I never intended for the Sex Pistols to be immeasurably successful.

  

  Malcolm Mclaren
  • Never
  • Sex
  • Successful

• The test of good citizenship is loyalty to country.

  

  Bainbridge Colby
  • Good
  • Country
  • Loyalty

• The American formula for creating business is not to have the government create business.

  

  John Sununu
  • Business
  • American

• I don't have anything to hide but what happens is the media tend to beat up what I say.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Up
  • Happens
  • Media

• You can't control the quality of projects that are coming to you, so if you get several in a row that are quality, you take them.

  

  John Travolta
  • Control
  • Quality
  • Ifs

• We are always remaking history. Our memory is always an interpretive reconstruction of the past, so is perspective.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • History
  • Past
  • Perspective

• INXS never had that groupie thing. No, no we really never did. Not in a sexual way - well, alright, then, maybe years ago. I've done a few stupid things in my time, but you've got to have respect for yourself, otherwise you end up getting used

  

  Michael Hutchence INXS
  • Up
  • Time
  • Done

• Clothes and manners do not make the...

  

  Arthur Ashe
  • Clothes
  • Manners

• Quite frankly, the bible is filled with advice that you'd never, want to follow. "Don't cut your hair on a rainy Thursday because locusts will eat your farm" kind of thing.

  

  David O. Russell
  • Kind
  • Hair
  • Advice

• Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.

  

  Robert H. Schuller
  • Stop
  • Problem
  • Signs

• It is proper for every one to consider, in the case of all men, that he who has not been a servant cannot become a praiseworthy master; and it is meet that we should plume ourselves rather on acting the part of a servant properly than that of the master, first, towards the laws, (for in this way we are servants of the gods), and next, towards our elders.

  

  Plato
  • Laws
  • Master
  • Consider

• Yes, she thought, laying down her brush in extreme fatigues, I have had my vision.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Vision
  • Extremes
  • Fatigue

• Let a man accept his destiny, No pity and no tears.

  

  Euripides
  • Destiny
  • Tears
  • Accept

• You wouldn't be allowed to get on a particular bus, but you'd be asked to sign your autograph.

  

  Lena Horne
  • Bus
  • Allowed
  • Autograph

• The proposition of an established classification of states as slave states and free states, as insisted on by some, and into northern and southern, as maintained by others, seems to me purely imaginary, and of course the supposed equilibrium of those classes a mere conceit.

  

  William H. Seward
  • Slave
  • Southern
  • Imaginary

• Those who act with few desires are calm, without worry or fear.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Worry
  • Calm
  • Desires

• To fight a bigger guy you need to train with bigger guys and it takes a lot more on your body. And it's not your weight class.

  

  Georges St-Pierre
  • Guy
  • Body
  • Train

• Our desires have a way of getting bigger with our incomes.

  

  Ivy Compton-Burnett
  • Desires
  • Bigger
  • Incomes