Leslie Poles Hartley Quotes

You flew too near the sun and you were scorched.

Leslie Poles Hartley

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• If you were black, you experienced prejudice. It wasn't a real horrible thing for us; we went through it. We noticed it mostly in the South and in Las Vegas, where we couldn't stay in the hotels where we entertained. But that began to change.

  

  Harold Nicholas
  • Real
  • Black
  • Change

• Verily He answereth him who prayeth unto Him, and is near unto him who calleth on Him.

  

  Baha'u'llah
  • Him
  • Near
  • Unto

• We need to bring sustainable energy to every corner of the globe with technologies like solar energy mini-grids, solar powered lights, and wind turbines.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Energy
  • Wind
  • Solar

• It's like everybody is shooting something, and everybody's a filmmaker; everybody can shoot a cat video and post it. So the big thing now is - for people that have talent and have something to say, and are creative, and are capable of making something good - is how do they get attention to it?

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • People
  • Good
  • Attention

• Yes, it's annoying that Hamlet doesn't kill his stepfather ten minutes into the play, but if he did kill his stepfather ten minutes into the play, there wouldn't be a play. He has to be annoying, if you will, and not do what would be the thing to do.

  

  Dallas Roberts
  • You
  • Play
  • Will

• But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Me
  • Now
  • Blonde

• People always say 'humbling,' but I actually think it's quite inflating being nominated for an award. It's wonderful; it's a great feeling.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • People
  • Great
  • Think

• I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Art
  • American
  • Lost

• I'm not afraid to call a wine that tastes like Skittles or green peppers mixed with orange marmalade. I'll say, 'It tastes like chicken.' I mean, that's not what people think of when they think of wine, but that's what it tastes like to me and it hits home.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • People
  • Home
  • Green

• I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music - which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there's no dream that's too big.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Music
  • Fun
  • Hope

• I think I'm a good judge of character.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Good
  • Character
  • Think

• I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Hope
  • Black
  • See

• The physical ego serves as its own worst enemy when, by delusive material behavior, it eclipses its true nature as the ever blessed soul.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • True
  • Nature
  • Soul

• One must act in painting as in life, directly.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Life
  • Painting
  • Act

• I didn't know that I could do a talk show. I didn't know that we could bring variety to daytime. I didn't know that people wanted to see singing, and dancing and comedy in the morning.

  

  Wayne Brady
  • People
  • Comedy
  • Morning

• A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Great
  • Help
  • Society

• Considering how foolishly people act and how pleasantly they prattle, perhaps it would be better for the world if they talked more and did less.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • People
  • World
  • Better

• If you want to call me names, make jokes and doubt my intentions, go ahead, because the reality is I can take it.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Reality
  • Me
  • Doubt

• If we were born knowing everything, what would we do with all this time on this earth?

  

  Nelly
  • Time
  • Earth
  • inspirational

• The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Up
  • Family
  • Happy

• It doesn't matter what he says tomorrow. If there's a better plan, great - that's a better plan. Odds are that will require taxpayer dollars.

  

  Lynn Swann
  • Great
  • Plan
  • Dollars

• The complexity embedded in the different levels of meaning that go along with the words "I love you" ought to be a whole mindfuck of a video game

  

  Rachel Cohn
  • Different
  • Game
  • Words

• You flew too near the sun and you were scorched.

  

  Leslie Poles Hartley
  • inspirational