Virginia Woolf Quotes

Until we can comprehend the beguiling beauty of a single flower, we are woefully unable to grasp the meaning and potential of life itself.

Virginia Woolf

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• I never – you know also one of the things that would save me for a man my age, it was not that easy to lose that much weight and fall down and look like something draped.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Man
  • Know
  • Easy

• I'm not one to take revenge. If someone does something wrong to me I leave it in the hands of the universe to take care of that person.

  

  Lana Parrilla
  • Universe
  • Care
  • Revenge

• He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Opportunity
  • Fruit
  • Seed

• I am so in tune with my body that I know how it should feel.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Feel
  • Body

• Dreams are the expression of the unconscious while we are asleep.

  

  Nancy Friday
  • Dreams
  • Expression
  • While

• I became a novelist because of 'Gone With the Wind,' or more precisely, my mother raised me up to be a 'Southern' novelist, with a strong emphasis on the word 'Southern' because 'Gone With the Wind' set my mother's imagination ablaze when she was a young girl growing up in Atlanta.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Up
  • She
  • Mother

• People sometimes say it takes a long time to become a jazz fan, but for me it took about five seconds.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • People
  • Time
  • Me

• I am an African and I am very proud of that.

  

  Fatou Bensouda
  • Proud
  • African

• As long as I can remember, I've been writing - first poems, then stories, and by my early teenage years I was also in love with sailing.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Writing
  • Love
  • Remember

• Harmonizing opposites by going back to their source is the distinctive quality of the Zen attitude, the Middle Way: embracing contradictions, making a synthesis of them, achieving balance.

  

  Taisen Deshimaru
  • Quality
  • Balance
  • Attitude

• The beer was empty and our tongues were tiredAnd running out of things to say.She gave a kiss to me as I got outAnd I watched her drive away.Just for a moment I was back at schoolAnd felt that old familiar painAnd as I turned to make my way back homeThe snow turned into rain.

  

  Dan Fogelberg
  • She
  • Running
  • Rain

• So I've learnt that the world is 4,500 million years old. If you're very religious, then it's not 4,500 million years old, it's 6,000 years old. One of these is not correct.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • World
  • Religious

• On his first hand he wore rings of stone,Iron, Amber, Wood and Bone.There were rings unseen on his second hand,One was blood in a flowing band,One was air all whisper thin,And the ring of ice had a flaw within.Full faintly shone the ring of flame,And the final ring was without name.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Hand
  • Band
  • Air

• To avoid large and unsustainable budget deficits, the nation will ultimately have to choose among higher taxes, modifications to entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare, less spending on everything else from education to defense, or some combination of the above.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Education

• I started this book to forgive my parents and ended it by becoming a parent. Understanding backward liberated me to live forward.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • Live
  • Book
  • Parents

• There's also a dark vein of intolerance in some parts of the party. What do I mean by that? What I mean by that is they still sort of look down on minorities.

  

  Colin Powell
  • Party
  • Dark

• Faith makes it possible to achieve that which man's mind can conceive and believe.

  

  Bruce Lee
  • Believe
  • Mind
  • Faith

• For the things we have to learn before we can do, we learn by doing.

  

  Aristotle
  • Things
  • Learn
  • Do

• The most remarkable thing about Hollywood is that it does not exist. ... Hollywood, in a word, has no center, never had one, no city hall, court house, church, square, or rather it probably has some of those but they're so aimlessly thrown in with the general jumble ... that I, for one, never found them.

  

  Vicki Baum
  • Church
  • Square
  • Court house

• The past, she knew, is inviolable, one of the few things in life that cannot be marred by present foolishness, and in it the present may find its peace.

  

  Elizabeth Goudge
  • Life
  • Foolishness
  • Marred

• The Japanese say, If the flower is to be beautiful, it must be cultivated.

  

  Lester Cole
  • Beautiful
  • Flower
  • Japanese

• The plants look up to heaven, from whence they have their nourishment.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Heaven
  • Flower
  • Plant

• Until we can comprehend the beguiling beauty of a single flower, we are woefully unable to grasp the meaning and potential of life itself.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Flower