Virginia Woolf Quotes

What is the meaning of life? That was all- a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years, the great revelation had never come. The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead, there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark; here was one.

Virginia Woolf

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• When I go a stretch without tweeting, I will occasionally get an email from my mom, checking in. I always find this amusing but also gratifying: Thanks to Twitter, I can keep in touch with my parents and let them in on what I'm doing in a way that even the regular phone calls of a doting daughter can't do.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Parents
  • Mom
  • Daughter

• The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction.

  

  Gabriel Marcel
  • Taken
  • Philosophy
  • Battle

• I do a lot of visualisations and meditation and a lot of hippie stuff.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Meditation
  • Lot
  • Hippie

• In metros, girls are very independent, conscious and aware. But in the interiors of our country, where education is not given importance, they continue to be oppressed. But it is important for every woman to acknowledge what she wants from herself rather than going for what people expect from her.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • People
  • Important
  • Country

• In establishing democracy, we have to be sensitive to the regional and national context. Democracy also means to guarantee the rights of the minorities. That's my job as a king. We have for example a Jewish ambassador in the US and a Christian in the UK.

  

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
  • Job
  • Christian
  • Democracy

• I'm irrational about all things creative, and I'm always late!

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • Always
  • Creative
  • Late

• Because in big and diverse societies like ours, progress ultimately depends on something more basic, and that is how we see each other. And we know from experience what makes nations strong. And Neha I think did a great job of describing the essence of what’s important here. We are strongest when we see the inherent dignity in every human being.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Great
  • Important
  • Job

• What’s our excuse today for not voting? How do we so casually discard the right for which so many fought? How do we so fully give away our power, our voice, in shaping America’s future? Why are we pointing to somebody else when we could take the time just to go to the polling places? We give away our power.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Time
  • Why
  • Power

• I was responsible to no one, I had no need mumble excuses or lies. I would become someone else and my metamorphosis would be so complete that no one I’d met over the past fifteen years would be able to recognize me. (116)

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Past
  • Lies
  • Excuses

• It's not like I'm anti-China. I just think it's ridiculous that we allow them to do what they're doing to this country, with the manipulation of the currency, that you write about and understand, and all of the other things that they do.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Country
  • Manipulation

• A big part of my upbringing was being with an instrument and kind of figuring myself out through music. So I feel a strong desire in any way that I can to help do that for other kids.

  

  Andy Grammer
  • Music
  • Kids
  • Help

• I spent most of my time with adults because although my parents were older when they had me, they're really like teenagers. I sort of became the third musketeer.

  

  Emily Ratajkowski
  • Time
  • Parents

• You feel very romantic when you're in a ball gown. Everyone should wear one once in a while.

  

  Carolina Herrera
  • Romantic

• I never know how to get off the phone, so I'm terribly admiring of people who can.

  

  Nellie McKay
  • People

• My mom was born in Korea - Seoul, Korea, during the '50s, '51. She was abandoned; her and my uncle were abandoned. My grandfather was a Seabee and adopted my mom and my uncle, and brought them to Compton in the '50s. That's where she was raised.

  

  Anderson Paak
  • She
  • Mom
  • Uncle

• I mean, when you grow up in the inner city and you grow up in a single-parent household, that's - those are humbling times, you know?

  

  LeBron James
  • Up
  • City
  • Single

• We usually let our husbands negotiate the house and the cars. But I never had a husband, so I was always buying my own houses and cars, so I knew how to negotiate.

  

  Lisa Lampanelli
  • House
  • Husband

• Through love, we come close to the hearts of our brothers - at the beginning, throughout the course of, and right up to the end of our lives.

  

  Dominique Pire
  • Up
  • Beginning

• I've always been kind of a voyeur.

  

  Maya Hawke

• If you want creativity, take a zero off your budget. If you want sustainability, take off two zeros.

  

  Jaime Lerner
  • Creativity

• What is the meaning of life? That was all- a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years, the great revelation had never come. The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead, there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark; here was one.

  

  Virginia Woolf