Sara Willis (Fanny Fern) Quotes
I hate the word proper. If you tell me a thing is not proper, I immediately feel the most rabid desire to go 'neck and heels' into it.
Quotes to Explore
-
People like me were supposed to be into exclusivity, unapproachable. That's what I hate most. I think it's very demode.
-
The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire.
-
It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
-
People desire power. I don't know why they want it so. It seems to me it implies a hugely superior intellect which separates them from most of the populace.
-
I hate being called an 'icon.' I just don't like it. That's all there is to it.
-
I hate these platforms that are all over the place today; they are all about grabbing attention. They are suburban! I never do a platform. Well, I did, in the 1970s, but that was a bad experience.
-
In the streets, they're very nice. On Twitter, there are people who love to hate me. Sometimes people get mean. I tend to answer like, 'Careful now, know who you're dealing with...' They're like, 'I'm sorry! Don't send the Lord of Light after me!' It's fun to play with that.
-
I grew up in the hood, and I was raised to hate cops. But then, I started to realize that they're people, and they have lives, too.
-
Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay.
-
Love me or hate me, both are in my favour. If you love me, I will always be in your heart, and if you hate me, I will be in your mind.
-
War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.
-
Let's practice motivation and love, not discrimination and hate.
-
Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.
-
I hate phones. All businesses are personal businesses, and I always try my best to get back to people, but sometimes the barrage of calls is so enormous that if I just answered calls I would do nothing else.
-
The search for a Jewish national home came about due to centuries of anti-Semitic pogroms, expulsions, discrimination and hate. The Holocaust was simply the evil culmination of all that came before it.
-
An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious and permanent goods of human life have been madly sacrificed in the interests of momentary enrichment.
-
I don't want to forgive myself. That's why I hate psychoanalysis I think if you're guilty of something you should live with it. Get rid of it - how can you get rid of a real guilt? I think people should live with it, face up to it.
-
Fame is ultimately about the cycles of desire and how to do away with them or manage them well.
-
I never dress for the occasion correctly because I hate fashion rules. They're so boring.
-
I was an only child, so I was alone a lot.
-
We see evidence that lakes and forests and wetlands can have different equilibria - so you have a savanna system that may be stable and thriving, but it can also tip over and become an arid steppe if pushed too far by warming, land degradation, and biodiversity loss.
-
I would not, if I could, give up the memory of the joy I have had in books for any advantage that could be offered in other pursuits or occupations. Books have been to me what gold is to the miser, what new fields are to the explorer.
-
A soul without a high aim is like a ship without a rudder.
-
I hate the word proper. If you tell me a thing is not proper, I immediately feel the most rabid desire to go 'neck and heels' into it.
