Sarah Orne Jewett Quotes

It seems to me like stealing, for men and women to live in the world and do nothing to make it better.

Sarah Orne Jewett

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• I know politics and politicians are hated, but I still believe in goodness of a heart that has selfless intentions. With the grace of God, I will make a difference.

  

  Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore
  • God
  • Believe
  • Heart

• Despite the obvious benefits, many Americans do not like Texas. Some even say they despise Texas, and make no secret of their feelings.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Feelings
  • Say
  • Texas

• Secretly, I think everyone who makes fun of California really does want to be in California.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Fun
  • Think
  • Want

• I've always been in love with the States. When I was a kid, we would take these long summer holidays in Texas, Nashville, and all over. I fell in love with the people, the food, even the smell. You don't necessarily get that in old Europe.

  

  Ed Weeks
  • People
  • Kid
  • Holidays

• We were only allowed to watch Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers and 3-2-1 Contact!

  

  Rachael Leigh Cook
  • Watch
  • Street
  • Contact

• I was studying political science; I was adamant that I was going to follow in my father's footsteps.

  

  Iman
  • Father
  • Political
  • Science

• When you speak directly at things and don't say you're going to try to do something or that you hope to do something, the universe will work with you. Think about it this way - a boomerang goes out and comes back to you if you throw it. If you throw it out at the universe, it will come back down to you on Earth.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Work
  • Hope
  • Earth

• I grew up in New York, and for the first ten years of my life, we lived across from the Metropolitan Museum. When I was an adult, I moved back to that neighborhood and lived there again.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Life
  • Up
  • My Life

• I loved politics and, I confess, I enjoyed politicians immensely.

  

  Jack Germond
  • Politics
  • Loved
  • Politicians

• I had almost three acres of land in Beverly Hills. And I had a big atrium of chickens because I love that feeling of being in the country and living from the soil.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Country
  • Feeling
  • Living

• 'Years of Living Dangerously' is a wonderful opportunity to reach a lot of people with the story and importance of climate change in our lives; in recent history, there's no bigger threat to the quality of human life than what is taking place right now in respect of climate change.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • People
  • Life
  • History

• I'm an optimist; I always hope that each new script is going to be a great story.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Great
  • Hope
  • Optimist

• The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Life
  • Society
  • Science

• I had wanted to be a sculptor throughout life, but to do so, I had to stop painting.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Life
  • Stop
  • Painting

• While it's easy for South Sudan to feel distant, the situation is all too real for the South Sudanese mothers choosing which child gets to eat tomorrow. This is a time when we must look outward together and declare that humanity has no borders - no one deserves to suffer like this, especially in a world of such abundance.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Time
  • World
  • Real

• When I started out in life I wanted to teach.

  

  Victor Spinetti
  • Life
  • Teach
  • Out

• They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Today
  • You
  • Teach

• Yes, sir, I was in the processing room watching them actually process the film.

  

  Abraham Zapruder
  • Film
  • Process
  • Watching

• If men must die, why not in honorable pursuit of knowledge? Far be it that our ideas of manhood should be dwarfed to the size of a golden dollar.

  

  George W. Melville
  • Knowledge
  • Ideas
  • Pursuit

• The Dutch people want refugees to be safe but don't come here. And don't forget, people are very angry about that, that most of the people who came to Holland were younger people, often young men who crossed before coming to Holland six of seven safe countries in order to be in Holland. If they just wanted to be safe, they would have stopped at Turkey or maybe if you find Turkey unsafe, in Greece.

  

  Geert Wilders
  • People
  • Men
  • Country

• If lawyers were to undertake no causes till they were sure they were just, a man might be precluded altogether from a trial of his claim, though, were it judicially examined, it might be found a very just claim.

  

  Samuel Johnson

• Even in cultures where marriages are arranged by parents, you're never actually forbidden to fall in love with your mate.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Parents
  • Fall

• My main interest right now is to expose the Jews. This is a lot bigger than me. They're not just persecuting me. This is not just my struggle, I'm not just doing this for myself... This is life and death for the world. These God-damn Jews have to be stopped. They're a menace to the whole world.

  

  Bobby Fischer
  • Life
  • World
  • God

• It seems to me like stealing, for men and women to live in the world and do nothing to make it better.

  

  Sarah Orne Jewett
  • Men
  • Women
  • Stealing