Sidonie Gabrielle Colette (Colette) Quotes

- and how time flies! What, has it already been twenty years, already forty years that we are together? Why, how terrible! We haven't yet said all we wanted to say to each other... May we have a little respite, or else may we be allowed to begin all over again!

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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• I was taught from a very early age that I had to work twice as hard to get half as much. That was the world I grew up in - a very strong work ethic.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Up
  • World
  • Work

• In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • World
  • You
  • inspirational

• What I'm very concerned about is how do we bolster our self-awareness as humans, as biological organisms?

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Very
  • Our
  • Self-Awareness

• I don't think being an athlete is unfeminine. I think of it as a kind of grace.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Think
  • Athlete
  • Grace

• No one wants to drown. Drowning would be the worst. Cause everyone knows that feeling. That feeling, oh it's the worst... when you think you're drowning.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Think
  • Feeling
  • Worst

• The State of Israel is a state that was formed before the people were even in it. You have to understand: In India, in Burma, in Pakistan - all of the people were already there. Their problem was for the English to leave so they could be independent.

  

  Yitzhak Navon
  • People
  • Problem
  • English

• It's such a stressful environment, I find, being an actor, being put in the chair and 'Touch this, that, and the other,' it's too much for me. I find it hard to tolerate that sort of stuff. If you're not enjoying it, don't do it. You're wasting everyone's time.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • Time
  • Me
  • Environment

• I'm a walking, talking enigma.

  

  Larry David
  • Walking
  • Talking
  • Enigma

• In the end, I was doing night shoots on 'Gilmore Girls' and then wrapping and going straight from 'Gilmore Girls' to 'Roadies.'

  

  Tanc Sade
  • Night
  • End
  • Doing

• It’ll be the ballot or it’ll be the bullet. It’ll be liberty or it’ll be death. And if you’re not ready to pay that price don’t use the word freedom in your vocabulary.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Death
  • Freedom

• I have the hatred of apartheid in my bones...

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien

• The popular, and one may say naive, idea is that peace can be secured by disarmament and that disarmament must therefore precede the attainment of absolute security and lasting peace.

  

  Ludwig Quidde
  • May
  • Peace
  • Popular

• Life will not make allowance for you, but it will pay you what you earn.

  

  Dave Ramsey
  • Life

• When I'm not working, I would kill to have some sort of creative outlet other than, say, a coloring book. And when I'm working, I want to do all those things I was griping about - you know, make a turkey-and-cheese sandwich, put it in a zip-top bag, and stick it in a lunch box right now!

  

  Angie Harmon
  • Book

• Every time I have some moment on a seashore, or in the mountains, or sometimes in a quiet forest, I think this is why the environment has to be preserved.

  

  Bill Bradley
  • Time
  • Why
  • Environment

• Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.

  

  Desiderius Erasmus
  • Light

• Do we have good writers, producers and actors in the U.K.? Yes we do.

  

  Eric Fellner
  • Good

• I love documentaries. My problem is when the filmmaker becomes the star.

  

  Christopher Guest
  • Star

• Kinsey kick started a lot in shocking people with how much homosexual activity there is.

  

  Bill Condon
  • People

• First-time novelists have a tough row to hoe. Our publishers don’t have a lot of promotional budget to throw at unknown factors like us. Mostly, we rise and fall based on word-of-mouth.

  

  Cory Doctorow
  • Time
  • Fall
  • Unknown

• I have found that the players who have played in that game really do have respect for their adversaries.

  

  Darrell Royal
  • Game
  • Respect

• - and how time flies! What, has it already been twenty years, already forty years that we are together? Why, how terrible! We haven't yet said all we wanted to say to each other... May we have a little respite, or else may we be allowed to begin all over again!

  

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
  • Time
  • Terrible
  • Respite