Vita Sackville-West Quotes

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• Every generation comes with a unique athlete, I don't think anybody wants to be the next Nadia; they want to be themselves.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Want
  • Unique
  • Athlete

• One thing that we decided very early in the relationship is that when he goes, we all go - the whole family.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Family
  • Relationship
  • Early

• My most cherished desire is to help our women come out of their routine chores and infuse in them the indefatigable spirit of adventure.

  

  Samina Baig
  • Women
  • Help
  • Desire

• Saving Milly was a break from this effort because I felt that it was time to be part of something that could shed light on a disease everyone feels they know, when most know so little.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Time
  • Light
  • Effort

• You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Heart
  • You
  • Strength

• It is a matter of simple fact that Icelanders have always been notoriously indolent.

  

  Halldor Laxness
  • Simple
  • Always
  • Matter

• The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the most important and useful in arithmetic.

  

  Carl Friedrich Gauss
  • Important
  • Problem
  • Numbers

• The Unites States used to use law enforcement to aggressively target North Korea illicit activities - counterfeiting U.S. currency, drug-running, counterfeit cigarettes and pharmaceuticals - until diplomacy gutted those efforts. The effort should be reinvigorated.

  

  Ed Royce
  • Law
  • Running
  • Effort

• I usually have two or three books on the go at the same time. If I'm in different moods, I want to read different things.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Time
  • Different
  • Want

• Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to pay the rent. So, aged 21, I started up my own small cheesecake company in Philadelphia.

  

  Nancy Meyers
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Small

• I sold a bunch of stuff. I sold Omaha Steaks, vacation packages... the worst, though, was Time Life Books, because no one wants Time Life Books. No one wants an 'Encyclopedia Brittanica' showing up at their house.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• War is the continuation of politics by other means.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • War
  • Politics
  • Other

• The difference was you worked for Nixon, and with Ford.

  

  Earl Butz
  • You
  • Difference
  • Worked

• I am sure my fellow-scientists will agree with me if I say that whatever we were able to achieve in our later years had its origin in the experiences of our youth and in the hopes and wishes which were formed before and during our time as students.

  

  Felix Bloch
  • Time
  • Education
  • Youth

• Starring in a science-fiction film doesn't mean you have to act science fiction.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Science
  • Mean
  • Act

• Panama is a country that's been dealing with issues of identity since its very birth. It was born on Wall Street. It was born out of engineering construction. It was the canal. Because of the canal, the country was born, so the country has been divided into pro-canal and against-canal people for so long.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • People
  • Long
  • Country

• As an actress, the joy of being able to play the three sides of any woman, which are the glamour, the pragmatic and the one not to be messed with, is pretty glorious.

  

  Victoria Smurfit
  • Pretty
  • Joy
  • Woman

• I have crushes on women all the time. I don't have intimate relationships with them, but I find women beautiful.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Time
  • Women
  • Beautiful

• Happiness is open to all, since, when you boil it down, it merely consists of contentment with what you have got and doing what you can for other people.

  

  Robert Baden-Powell
  • People
  • Happiness
  • Contentment

• Dressing is a matter of taste, and I've met very few Republicans with good taste.

  

  Willie Brown
  • Taste
  • Republicans
  • Dressing

• Whenever I am not traveling during the winter, I am pushing hard in the gym. Even when I am traveling, I try to fit a workout in at the hotel. And if the hotel doesn't have a gym? You can get a good workout in your room with an exercise band and some imagination.

  

  Charlie Kimball
  • Good
  • Band
  • Imagination

• Curse the blasted, jelly-boned swines, the slimy, the belly-wriggling invertebrates, the miserable soddingrotters, the flaming sods, the sniveling, dribbling, dithering, palsied, pulse-less lot that make up England today. They've got white of egg in their veins, and their spunk is that watery it's a marvel they can breed.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Up
  • Today
  • White

• I believe no amount of business school training or work experience can teach what is ultimately a matter of personal character. Businesses are not dishonest or greedy, people are. Thus, a business, successful or not, is merely a reflection of the character of its leadership.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• Not seeing is half-believing.

  

  Vita Sackville-West
  • Believe
  • inspirational
  • Half