Virginia Woolf Quotes

I am all the time thinking about poetry and fiction and you.

Virginia Woolf

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• I lost 80 percent of my wealth and then gave away over half of the rest. So I'm a man of modest means now. But if you budget carefully and watch your expenditures, you can get by on a couple billion dollars.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Man
  • Lost
  • Rest

• Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two. A constant coming and going: wisdom lies in the momentary.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Change
  • Wisdom
  • Lies

• I don't read as much as people may expect. In fact, sometimes I feel that I should probably read more, but then I do believe that one of the big problems of our times is that there's too much reading and not enough thinking.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • People
  • Believe
  • Thinking

• Religion has nothing to do with God. It's a fundamental attitude of human beings, who ask about the origins of life and what happens after death. For many, the answer is a personal god. In my opinion, it's religion that produces God, not the other way round.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Life
  • God
  • Death

• While designed to visually seduce, Dune is not primarily a formal exercise but a social, ecological, cultural one.

  

  Magnus Larsson
  • Exercise
  • Cultural
  • While

• I wasn't a vegan when I came to Congress. It was a decision I made soon after I got here, and it's had such a positive impact on my life that I decided to try to help others as well.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Life
  • Help
  • Decision

• The future is out of my hands; it is in God's.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • God
  • Future
  • Hands

• 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
  • Experience

• 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

• Every part is disposed to unite with the whole, that it may thereby escape from its own incompleteness.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • May

• ...without an organisation that can work together, sometimes over a very long period, it's difficult to see new projects to fruition.

  

  Akio Morita
  • Work
  • Long
  • Together

• The butcher, baker, and candlestick maker have been around a lot longer than supermarkets and Wal-Mart.

  

  Joel Salatin

• I kind of fell into acting. I was very lucky.

  

  Mark Goddard

• 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

• I work in politics and media, two industries that have been particularly affected by the issue of misconduct. We have seen famous and powerful men finally pay a price for behavior they got away with for decades. Many have lost their positions and status - rightly so.

  

  Ana Navarro
  • Work
  • Men
  • Lost

• Well, one thing's very clear, that terrorism isn't just a threat which is external to Western countries. It's not simply a foreign menace that comes from overseas to strike our cities. It can and it does, as we now know, come from within our own countries and from inside our own populations.

  

  Pauline Neville-Jones

• I was with Robert Preston in 'Sly Fox.'

  

  Jeffrey Tambor

• Government should seek more strategic approaches to developing dynamic, resilient infrastructure. Business must be more creative in offering financing solutions as partners with government, and people must support sustainable innovation as a public policy priority.

  

  Frans van Houten
  • People
  • Business
  • Support

• Best by test.

  

  Bobby Fischer

• I don't get claustrophobic.

  

  Ian Ziering
  • Get
  • Claustrophobic

• American politics used to be an amateur sport. But somewhere along the way, we handed over to professionals all the things people used to do for free.

  

  Bob Schieffer
  • People
  • American
  • Free

• On either side in Time, there's nothing similar to Now, only memories or imaginings . The place you were ten seconds ago has vanished, and what is the place ten seconds ahead? There is nothing there. It's very odd.

  

  Arthur J. Deikman
  • Time
  • Memories
  • Place

• I am all the time thinking about poetry and fiction and you.

  

  Virginia Woolf