Virginia Woolf Quotes

Indeed there has never been any explanation of the ebb and flow in our veins--of happiness and unhappiness.

Virginia Woolf

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• The cool thing is that, unlike film, the theatre roles for women get better and better as you get older.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Women
  • Cool
  • Theatre

• There is not adequate whistleblower protection.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Protection
  • Adequate

• For years now, long before I became House majority leader, I have been passionate about foreign affairs because I believe that anyone who leads in Washington must appreciate the significance of America's role in providing for global security and prosperity.

  

  Kevin McCarthy
  • Believe
  • Long
  • America

• I do a lot of sexy publicity, but I have yet to have any bad experiences regarding jealousy.

  

  Brooke Burke
  • Bad
  • Sexy
  • Jealousy

• I believe the election and reelection of Obama were among the most conspicuous acts of denial in recent years. Voters just stopped paying attention. They accepted consistently bad behavior and rewarded it. Then they wonder why they get more bad behavior.

  

  Allen West
  • Believe
  • Why
  • Bad

• Gangnam is a territory in Seoul, Korea. I describe it as noble at the daytime and going crazy at the night time. I compare ladies to the territory. So - noble at the daytime, going crazy at the night time - and the lyric says I am the right guy for the lady who is like that.

  

  Psy
  • Time
  • Guy
  • Night

• The logos of creation, 'And God Said ...' formed the basis of Christian interpretation of the 'Book of Nature.'

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • God
  • Book
  • Nature

• If we say that anyone who 'moralizes' must be perfect morally then we are in effect saying no one can moralize.

  

  Jonah Goldberg
  • Perfect

• Have you ever seen the video of the kid with the Spider-Man pinata? He just sets the stick down, walks over, and gives the Spider-Man pinata a hug. He doesn't want to hurt his Spider-Man. He loves him! And I think that's a universal feeling towards Spider-Man. You just can't help but love him.

  

  Jon Watts
  • Help
  • Feeling
  • Hurt

• You should know something, Miriam.... God changed our futures yesterday. There's no other explanation for what happened. And it wasn't the first God. If you ever need hlep, you might want to try the second God.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • God
  • Trying
  • Firsts

• The art has to make it on its own, without explanations, and it’s the same for poetry. If the poem or the painting has to be explained, then it’s a failure in communication.

  

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti
  • Art
  • Poetry
  • Failure

• A good character today is shaped by greatness, greatness in vision, greatness in courage, greatness in insight, greatness in purpose and devotion.

  

  Arthur Powell Davies
  • Good
  • Character
  • Today

• A theory that denies that thoughts can regulate actions does not lend itself readily to the explanation of complex human behavior.

  

  Albert Bandura
  • Thoughts
  • Human
  • Behavior

• The farther we go, the more the ultimate explanation recedes from us, and all we have left is faith.

  

  Václav Hlavatý
  • Faith
  • Left
  • Explanation

• I know that you cannot hate other people without hating yourself.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • People
  • Hate
  • I Know

• If you're unhappy, what is it in your life that you're not facing?

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Life
  • Ifs
  • Unhappy

• Children internalize their parents' unhappiness. Fortunately, they absorb our contentment just as readily.

  

  Lucille Ball
  • Children
  • Parents
  • Parent

• Hopefully my music is medicine, some type of antidote for something or some kind of explanation or just to feel good.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Good
  • Music
  • Explanation

• Creativity can never be explained by appeal to reason alone. Like the birth of a child, creativity compels us not to explanation but to wonder and awe.

  

  George Vaillant
  • Wonder
  • Creativity
  • Explanation

• You really, really, really have to love what you are going to do in theater because it is an unmerciful life. It's six days a week. It's eight performances a week. And that's doing the exact same thing over and over and over again.

  

  Harvey Fierstein
  • Life
  • Theatre
  • Performance

• Many Americans who supported the initial thrust of civil rights, as represented by the Brown v. Board of Education decision and the Civil Rights Act of 1964, later felt betrayed as the original concept of equal individual opportunity evolved toward the concept of equal group results.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Opportunity
  • Decision
  • Individual

• Most people react this way when I tell them about the Nazis. Would it be more or less comforting if we could attribute that particular part of our history to the supernatural?

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • History
  • Comforting
  • React

• Only this is true, that beauty is very beautiful, and softens, and inspires, and rouses, and lifts up, and never fails.

  

  Edward Burne-Jones
  • Beautiful
  • Failing
  • Inspire

• Indeed there has never been any explanation of the ebb and flow in our veins--of happiness and unhappiness.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Explanation
  • Unhappiness