E. Nesbit Quotes

Life will give you what you ask of here if only you ask long enough and plainly enough.

E. Nesbit

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• Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • God
  • Man
  • Philosophy

• First of all, I'm not the kind of guy that likes to rehash the show and so forth and so on.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Guy
  • Kind
  • First

• I actually like to sing on 'Rock Band.' I prefer to take the mic.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Band
  • Rock
  • Like

• Most people live in the city and go to the country at the weekend, and that's posh and aristocratic, but actually to live in the country and come to London when you can't take it any more is different.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • People
  • Different
  • Live

• The purpose of armed struggle is not simply to kill... its purpose is to reach a political goal.

  

  Abu Abbas
  • Political
  • Purpose
  • Struggle

• The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think.

  

  Farrah Fawcett
  • American
  • Think
  • Boy

• Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Happiness
  • Child
  • Maturity

• Their chief residence was Bagdad, where they remained until the eleventh century, an age fatal in Oriental history, from the disasters of which the Princes of the Captivity were not exempt.

  

  Isaac D'Israeli
  • History
  • Age
  • Disasters

• Without Khomeini, we would not be where we are. What a pity that, when pregnant with him, his mother did not choose to have an abortion.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Mother
  • Choose
  • Abortion

• 'Swallow Me Whole' is still the creation that's closest to my heart.

  

  Nate Powell
  • Heart
  • Creation
  • Closest

• The surface is all you get of me.

  

  Gary Hume
  • You
  • Me
  • Get

• I told my agent which women I aspire to have a career like: Frances McDormand, Kate Winslet, Laura Linney and Emma Thompson - character actresses who have something to say. I also said that I loved Madeline Kahn and Jessica Lange.

  

  Rachael Harris
  • Women
  • Character
  • Career

• I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Learning
  • Doing

• I can be very ordinary looking.

  

  Rachel Tucker
  • Looking
  • I Can
  • Ordinary

• Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Girl
  • You
  • Waiting

• I made nothing happen very slowly.

  

  Gary McCord
  • Nothing
  • Very
  • Happen

• As athletes, we all have egos, we all think we can help, and when you're not given that chance, it's hard to watch.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Help
  • Think
  • Chance

• I like to write scenes in the middle of the night. We could change every word of 'Family Ties' between Monday and Friday.

  

  Gary David Goldberg
  • Family
  • Night
  • Change

• I've always been interested in how fast-moving our identity is and that I've never been able to pin down who I truly am. That inspires me to write, because I feel like that cements me a bit, in that I find my identity in being an artist.

  

  Marina and the Diamonds
  • Moving
  • Identity

• No matter how you cut them, paste them, rotate them, or distort them, lip syncing and air-guitar playing are fundamentally foolish activities, and anyone seen to be engaging in them with anything approaching a straight face is, by definition, taking herself or himself much too seriously.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • You
  • Air
  • Matter

• The weird thing was that Soft Cell was supposed to have come and gone before I started the album.

  

  Marc Almond Soft Cell
  • Weird
  • Gone
  • Before

• Inherently, I have a social conscience which my late father inculcated in me. He was not exactly a very wealthy man, but he was very concerned about the underprivileged, about the people who didn't have equal opportunities.

  

  Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
  • People
  • Father

• I think what makes a picture is a moment that is completely spontaneous and natural and unaffected by the photographer.

  

  Bill Eppridge
  • Picture
  • Photographer

• Life will give you what you ask of here if only you ask long enough and plainly enough.

  

  E. Nesbit
  • Life
  • Long
  • Giving