Sarah Orne Jewett Quotes

Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.

Sarah Orne Jewett

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• Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.

  

  Randolph Bourne
  • People
  • Experience
  • Scratch

• I was thinking of going to London drama schools or to New York, because France didn't accommodate the things I wanted to do in film.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Thinking
  • Drama
  • New York

• The natural world is often bleak, but the language devoted to it is as careful as needlepoint and prophetic as well.

  

  Edith Pearlman
  • World
  • Language
  • Natural

• Fortunately, in the place where I went out, they had set up a little previously a fence which prevented me finally from smashing against trees. I went out with a broken leg only. A small price to be paid at the time for an accident of this kind.

  

  Jacky Ickx
  • Up
  • Time
  • Small

• I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Think
  • Government
  • Easy

• I wanted to get a taste of what it would feel like to be a mum. I've always had a strong maternal instinct and ideally I would love one of my own.

  

  Samantha Fox
  • Love
  • Strong
  • Own

• To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Men
  • True
  • Die

• We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Good
  • Art
  • Hungry

• I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Money
  • Thought
  • Movies

• Thinking about your role will automatically get you in the frame of mind to get your strategy and game plan right before you step onto that field.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Thinking
  • Mind
  • Game

• When you are poor, you'll have to think of ways to be better off.

  

  Zong Qinghou
  • Think
  • You
  • Better

• There is an important idea in psychology: The 'just world theory,' which says that it is very important for us to convince ourselves that the world is just and things happen for a reason. That there is some elemental fairness in everything, which creates the illusion of justice.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • World
  • Important
  • Justice

• Working with children has done well for me. I don't find them intolerable or frustrating. They're just fun, full of energy, and happy to be there.

  

  Beck Bennett
  • Children
  • Happy
  • Fun

• If you're taking an antidepressant, it's working, and you're not experiencing side effects, go on taking it. But if it's not working, or not working well enough, or if you have side effects you don't like, talk to your doctor about an alternative approach.

  

  Irving Kirsch
  • You
  • Talk
  • Doctor

• I work a lot of hours, and in this business you really try to keep as busy as you possibly can. Sometimes when you really focus on kids in your free time you lose the husband and wife relationship to some degree. It's been a real focus for us to make sure we stay focused on us two.

  

  Cameron Mathison
  • Time
  • Work
  • Real

• I think all actors have a similar deal. You want some people who understand. Although it looks great - and is great - there are also shoddy moments when you feel really rotten, and when it's going well, you're not allowed to complain.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • People
  • Great
  • Moments

• Let not the 12 million Negroes be ashamed of the fact that they are the grandchildren of slaves. There is dishonor in being slave-owners.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Fact
  • Grandchildren
  • Slaves

• What do we lose without wild animal acts at the circus? Absolutely nothing, except the opportunity to be haunted and heartbroken.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Opportunity
  • Animal
  • Circus

• I dabbled in things like Howlin' Wolf, Cream and Led Zeppelin, but when I heard Son House and Robert Johnson, it blew my mind. It was something I'd been missing my whole life. That music made me discard everything else and just get down to the soul and honesty of the blues.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Life
  • Music
  • Mind

• What N.Y.C. does attract, year in and year out, is the very best general talent from around the world. The absolute smartest, neurons-just-fire-faster, can-bend-spoons-with-their-mind talent.

  

  Jose Ferreira
  • World
  • Mind
  • Fire

• A calm mind is good for our physical health, but it also enables us to see things more realistically.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Health

• The mind is intrinsically tranquil. Out of this tranquility, anxiety and confusion are born. If one sees and knows this confusion, then the mind is tranquil once more.

  

  Ajahn Chah
  • Mind
  • Anxiety
  • Confusion

• If I knew anything about what people wanted and was popular, I'd still be writing for 'Saturday Night Live'. I can only write what I want, and hopefully people will like it.

  

  Max Brooks
  • People
  • Writing
  • Live

• Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.

  

  Sarah Orne Jewett
  • Mind
  • Tact