Sidonie Gabrielle Colette (Colette) Quotes

A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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• Terrorism will spill over if you don't speak up.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Up
  • You
  • Speak

• The point is to change one's life. The point is not to give some vent to the emotions that have been destroying one; the point is so to act that one can master them now.

  

  Barbara Deming
  • Life
  • Change
  • Master

• Life does not owe me a shred.

  

  Valerie Harper
  • Life
  • Me
  • Owe

• As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.

  

  Taiye Selasi
  • Truth
  • Myself
  • Tell

• It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Writing
  • Think
  • Nonfiction

• In terms of Rogers, I can't comment on how other fighters in the UFC would fare with Brett Rogers because that's just speculation.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • Just
  • Other
  • Speculation

• Either war is obsolete, or men are.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Men
  • War
  • Either

• You shouldn't try to manufacture progress.

  

  Sam Altman
  • You
  • Progress
  • Try

• I was just making music in my bedroom. I never wanted to be onstage.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • Music
  • Never
  • Bedroom

• Life's a challenge, but that's the best part.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Life
  • Best
  • Challenge

• As barbaric is we are, it's a miracle we haven't blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • Earth
  • Miracle
  • Face

• Socialism is nothing more nor less than the social, political and ideological system which breaks the fetters upon economic growth created under capitalism and opens the way to a new period of economic and social expansion on a much larger scale.

  

  Earl Browder
  • Political
  • Growth
  • Period

• People like to call themselves fans of fighting and fans of the sport, but if you're a fan of fighting, how can you not like watching Demetrious Johnson? He's the best at it. He's the pound-for-pound best fighter in the world. Why wouldn't you enjoy watching that guy perform? He does a phenomenal job every time he's in there.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• Gratefulness is a double-edged sword. Because I think we've poured it into a feeling. And the batter of gratitude gets kind of stuck to the edges of the Williams Sonoma melamine mixing bowl. But gratefulness, the act of being grateful is actually... a verb. It's an activity.

  

  Abigail Spencer
  • Think
  • Feeling
  • Gratitude

• I feel that I communicate best when I am not deliberately being linear. Along this same line, I feel some of the best sermons I've ever heard were in the theatre rather than the pulpit - as, for example, in the Theatre of the Absurd.

  

  Malcolm Boyd
  • Best
  • Theatre
  • Same

• Culture is about the mindset of people, and we are very happy to have a strong combined mindset of people.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • People
  • Happy
  • Strong

• I grew up doing gymnastics. It requires discipline, eating right, getting sleep, lots of sacrifice. But the pros outweigh the sacrifice.

  

  Kacy Catanzaro
  • Up
  • Sleep
  • Discipline

• Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Mind
  • Mean
  • Nothing

• It's ignorant! The stereotype is guys that are weak and have failing relationships write about how sad they are. If you listen to our songs, not one of them has that tone. Emo is bullshit! If people want to take it for the literal sense of the word, then yes, we're an emotional band, we put a lot of thought into what we do. People always try to stereotype us, but we don't fit the emo stereotype.

  

  Brendon Urie Panic! at the Disco
  • Songs
  • Relationships
  • Stereotype

• My fans are grown now. They are not expecting me to do the bubblegum pop I did 20 years ago, even though it was pretty substantive. It was saying more than bubblegum pop says today. I am continuing where I left off.

  

  Irene Cara Escalera
  • Fans
  • Grown
  • Bubble

• Men as a rule love with their eyes, woman with their ears.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Men
  • Love
  • Woman

• In essence, I owe my career to Garry Marshall. There was no known reason for him to hire me for 'Pretty Woman.'

  

  Julia Roberts
  • Pretty
  • Career
  • Reason

• The problem men seem to have, and women, too, is that they have this very structured idea that we should find a partner and settle down and be, you know, faithful. And yet clearly this is really, really hard for anybody to do!

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Men
  • Women
  • Problem

• A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.

  

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
  • Woman
  • Rights
  • Demands