Sara Willis (Fanny Fern) Quotes

The term 'lady' has been so misused, that I like better the old-fashioned term, woman.

Sara Willis

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• Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.

  

  Edmond de Goncourt
  • Life
  • World
  • Die

• There should be at least one leak like the Pentagon Papers every year.

  

  Daniel Ellsberg
  • Like
  • Year
  • Leak

• I am mad for nature writing. I want to get inside the head of every creature in the world, even ants.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • World
  • Writing
  • Nature

• I always thought I was going to be a great poet, and go and live in New York, where the great poets lived - you know, where Whitman had walked the streets.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Great
  • Live
  • Thought

• The world does not get to be a better or a worse place; it just gets more senescent.

  

  Harold Bloom
  • World
  • Better
  • Place

• I totally related to Cole Porter's magnetic pull to any piano that was in the room, which he was famous for doing, as was Gershwin. You couldn't drag them away from a piano.

  

  Kevin Kline
  • Famous
  • Piano
  • Rooms

• A lot of my friends they call me 'the therapist'. They come to me looking for advice. I must be doing something right because they keep coming back. But I'm not very good at kind of looking into my own world and trying to pick apart what is really wrong and fix those things. I like to kind of shy away from certain issues and turn away.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • World
  • Good
  • Trying

• The Christian should be able to say with the psalmist, 'Oh, how I love your law.'

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Love
  • Law
  • Christian

• Tax increases aren't the answer. It would remove income from Americans' pockets, slow or stagnate job creation, and potentially lead to an overall economic downturn.

  

  Dan Burton
  • Job
  • Answer
  • Tax

• The tsar [Nicholas II] is not treacherous but he is weak. Weakness is not treachery, but it fulfils all its functions.

  

  Wilhelm II
  • Weak
  • Treacherous
  • Tsar

• I will do nothing to superinduce sleep by putting myself at ease, or making myself more comfortable; if, however, in spite of my resistance I yield to my infirmity, then I deserve to be laughed at, and accept as punishment the mortification I feel.

  

  S. C. Gwynne
  • Myself
  • Sleep
  • Accept

• Your neighbors will make judgments about you based on how your lawn and house look, and people who see you passing will judge you based on how clean you keep your car. It's not always fair, but it has always been true. Appearances matter, so make yours a good one.

  

  Lou Holtz
  • People
  • Good
  • True

• I'm interested in designing for posterity.

  

  Alexander McQueen
  • Posterity
  • Designing

• The reason he [Jimmy Carter] says he never lies is because he thinks the truth originates with him.

  

  Lester Maddox
  • Truth
  • Lies
  • Treat

• This is the first day of the rest of my life. So why is my hair sticking up like a cockerel?

  

  Louise Rennison
  • Life
  • Up
  • Why

• When I die there is nobody to take my place.

  

  Keith Haring
  • Die
  • Dies

• Therapy is therapy. Writing is for writing.

  

  Isabel Gillies
  • Writing
  • Therapy

• As soon as you go into any biological process in any real detail, you discover it's open-ended in terms of what needs to be found out about it.

  

  Joshua Lederberg
  • Real
  • Needs
  • Process

• Innocent pleasures in moderation can provide relaxation for the body and mind and can foster family and other relationships. But pleasure, per se, offers no deep, lasting satisfaction or sense of fulfillment. The pleasure-centered person, too soon bored with each succeeding level of "fun," constantly cries for more and more. So the next new pleasure has to be bigger and better, more exciting, with a bigger "high." A person in this state becomes almost entirely narcissistic, interpreting all of life in terms of the pleasure it provides to the self here and now.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Mind
  • Fun
  • Pleasure

• The term 'lady' has been so misused, that I like better the old-fashioned term, woman.

  

  Sara Willis
  • Term
  • Has Beens
  • Old-fashioned