Virginia Woolf Quotes

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

Virginia Woolf

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• I have been the struggler of the century. Fortunately, everyone loves the underdog.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Everyone
  • Century
  • Underdog

• Leaders who master emotions can rob us of our capacities to reason. If their values are out of step with our own, the results can be devastating.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Values
  • Emotions
  • Step

• The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization.

  

  Karen Horney
  • Perfect
  • Civilization
  • Rare

• Despite the obvious benefits, many Americans do not like Texas. Some even say they despise Texas, and make no secret of their feelings.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Feelings
  • Say
  • Texas

• Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • People
  • Time
  • Day

• In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Death
  • Terrorism
  • Sickness

• The ironic thing is I took Kole from a family name - we had a vote and they had a few names, but Kole won - and getting it spelled with a 'K' is a constant correction, too. I'll never not be Warren Blosjo; it's just my stage name.

  

  Warren Kole
  • Family
  • Name
  • Vote

• Everything with me is pretty close to the surface, but having kids has completely ruined my emotional equilibrium.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Kids
  • Pretty
  • Me

• I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.

  

  Jackson Pollock
  • Painting
  • Canvas
  • Ever

• I have an appetite to always learn.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Always
  • Learn
  • Appetite

• I want to tour, everywhere I can, all of the world.

  

  Kat Edmonson
  • World
  • Want
  • I Can

• America is essentially an entrepreneurial culture: the sizzle is the steak, because, after all, if you buy the sizzle, the steak comes with it. Canada's, in contrast, is a primary-producing culture: we'll buy the steak and hope to get a little sizzle with it. But we know we can't eat sizzle.

  

  Wayne Grady
  • America
  • Hope
  • Culture

• If you wanted to show a mirror to people that says, 'You've been drunk on money,' they're not going to want to see it. But if you reflected that mirror on another time they'd be willing to. People will need an explanation of where we are and where we've been, and 'The Great Gatsby' can provide that explanation.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• It's hard to kill that father-son bond.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Father
  • Son
  • Hard

• When we have sealed the outer border and thus stopped the illegal migration, we can talk about any solution.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Talk
  • Solution
  • Migration

• With only 2 percent of the world's proven reserves of oil, we in the United States can pump until we are blue in the face and it will not change the fact that we need more diverse and more secure sources of energy.

  

  Zack Wamp
  • World
  • Energy
  • Change

• Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.

  

  M. Esther Harding
  • Beginning
  • Conflict

• The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • World
  • Voice
  • Accept

• The BB house works as a kind of twat amplifier, you see. Once harnessed within, someone who in normal life would merely strike me as a bit of a git quickly swells in negative stature, eventually coming to symbolise everything I hate about our cruel and godless universe.

  

  Charlie Brooker
  • Life
  • House
  • Hate

• Fatalism, whose solving word in all crises of behavior is All striving is vain, will never reign supreme, for the impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race. Moral creeds which speak to that impulse will be widely successful in spite of inconsistency, vagueness, and shadowy determination of expectancy. Man needs a rule for his will, and will invent one if one be not given him.

  

  William James
  • Life
  • Men
  • Moral

• If I produce a 450-pound Bengal tiger, it's going to create a lot more wonder than if I produce a rabbit.

  

  Doug Henning
  • Wonder
  • Tiger

• I worry about the kids who have too much. As a parent living in a so-called good neighborhood with children who went to private high school, I found myself spending much time in parent groups worrying about alcohol, unsupervised parties, and parents not being parents.

  

  Marian Wright Edelman
  • Time
  • Good
  • Children

• No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Ways
  • Offence
  • Jostling

• Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Men
  • Reason
  • Opinion