Virginia Woolf Quotes

If we face the fact, for it is a fact, that there is no arm to cling to, but that we go alone and that our relation is to the world of reality and not only to the world of men and women.

Virginia Woolf

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• When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.

  

  Ma Jian
  • People
  • History
  • Moral

• The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • World
  • American
  • Dream

• I love being a mum, but it's much more intensive work than being an actress - going to work feels like you've got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it's just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don't work. But they work more than anyone.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Work
  • Feels
  • Impression

• Democrats and Republicans have been very keen to make home ownership almost a national purpose.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Home
  • Purpose
  • Ownership

• All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Education
  • Afraid

• One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.

  

  Karen Mills
  • Important
  • Business
  • High

• Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • People
  • Religion
  • Quiet

• I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.

  

  Ed Miliband
  • School
  • Power
  • Sun

• The first drama thing I really got stuck into was 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' I played Puck. That's when I said, 'I want to be an actor.'

  

  Ed Speleers
  • Want
  • Dream
  • Night

• I was brought up in industrial south Lancashire, down the cobbled road from where LS Lowry (1887 - 1976) lived and painted.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Up
  • Road
  • Down

• I don't see myself as a diva at all.

  

  Bebe Neuwirth
  • Myself
  • See
  • Diva

• I'm learning Spanish - I got Rosetta Stone for Christmas.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • Learning
  • Christmas
  • Spanish

• 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

• Growing up, I was always in the kitchen. Even in third grade, I made cooking videos called 'The Little Italian.' Very little production value, but it was good.

  

  Ippy Aiona
  • Up
  • Good
  • Growing

• I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • People
  • Human
  • Turn

• I know I can act. There aren't too many other jobs I know how to do.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Know
  • Act
  • I Can

• I've always wanted to work with dogs, so in high school, I worked at the Humane Society for a little while. I honestly think, even today, that would be the other career I would go into. Somehow I would be involved with animals.

  

  Maggie Lawson
  • Work
  • School
  • High

• I will count to 10 before tweeting.

  

  Valerie Trierweiler
  • Will
  • Before
  • Count

• Any leader needs to be constantly interested in what's going on in the world, and constantly ready - even when things are going well - to change.

  

  Carol Bartz
  • World

• Empower us women and we will change this whole entire world.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • World
  • Women
  • Change

• Most, especially the young filmmakers, do not see strength in communal or collective existence. They just think they're going to conquer the world as individuals. There is no world like that. In cinema it's always, even in Hollywood, a collective surge.

  

  Haile Gerima
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Hollywood

• Men are all right for friends, but as soon as you marry them they turn into cranky old fathers, even the wild ones.

  

  Willa Cather
  • Men
  • Father
  • Turns

• Your nervous system has to become collectively conscious.

  

  Nirmala Srivastava
  • Love
  • Wisdom
  • Yoga

• If we face the fact, for it is a fact, that there is no arm to cling to, but that we go alone and that our relation is to the world of reality and not only to the world of men and women.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • World
  • Men
  • Reality