Susanna Moodie Quotes

I have no wish for a second husband. I had enough of the first. I like to have my own way to lie down mistress, and get up master.

Susanna Moodie

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• I used to be someone that needed nine hours of sleep; otherwise, I didn't think I was going to sound good when I sang, and I was very disciplined and anal about my preparation. When you become a parent, there just isn't that time, you know?

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Time
  • Good
  • Sleep

• I did some martial arts training for 'Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,' since the character was an assassin.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • Mind
  • Character
  • Training

• I don't care about revenues.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Care
  • About

• I was really inspired by these larger-than-life female artists like Lee Bontecou and Eva Hesse and Yvonne Rainier and the incredible Lynda Benglis. There were many women who were really driven and became successful, who were part of essential paradigm shifts, despite the fact that the art world was still dominated by men.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Life
  • World
  • Men

• I started drama in high school.

  

  Daniel Cudmore
  • School
  • High
  • Drama

• India has large proven reserves of gas that remain unexploited.

  

  Veerappa Moily
  • India
  • Remain
  • Gas

• We are working with the power industry all over the world. We are meeting customers in aerospace and getting them to tour our plants.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • World
  • Power
  • Plants

• I always wanted to be on a sitcom.

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • Always
  • Wanted
  • Sitcom

• Quality Healthcare is a premier healthcare brand in Hong Kong and is the leading private healthcare provider there. We are believers in long-term growth prospects of the Asian healthcare space and the benefits of a world-class pan-Asian integrated healthcare delivery system.

  

  Malvinder Mohan Singh
  • World
  • Long
  • Space

• I love conventional apocalypse movies. In movies, I like to be with the president, or the scientist trying to solve the problem, but that's not the kind of fiction that I like to read.

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
  • Trying
  • Love
  • Problem

• To begin with, Congress should act to make sure no one on a no-fly list is able to buy a gun. What could possibly be the argument for allowing a terrorist suspect to buy a semi-automatic weapon? This is a matter of national security.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Fly
  • Gun

• There comes a time when the student turns his back on the teacher. His playing cannot have the necessary security, autonomy, self-faith, or communicative power until he believes his interpretation is his own.

  

  Yehudi Menuhin
  • Time
  • Power
  • Faith

• The bones of the Dead will be seen to govern the fortunes of him who moves them.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci

• Indeed, proof that a given condition always precedes or accompanies a phenomenon does not warrant concluding with certainty that a given condition is the immediate cause of that phenomenon. It must still be established that when this condition is removed, the phenomen will no longer appear.

  

  Claude Bernard

• For the first thing a proprietor learns, and painfully at that, is: Trust is fine, but control is better.

  

  Elfriede Jelinek
  • Control
  • Trust

• If mankind were to continue in other than the present barbarism, a new path must be found, a new civilization based on some other method than technology.

  

  Clifford D. Simak
  • Technology
  • Present
  • Path

• Others will always seek to define you based on what they think you represent or who they think you are. But you have to be the one to control what you do and what you say and how you present yourself.

  

  Loretta Lynch
  • Control
  • Present

• I had the most reversed education possible. Every parent wants their son to be a businessman, respectable - me, it was the opposite. When I had an artist career my mum was like, 'Oh finally, I'm proud of you!'

  

  David Guetta
  • Career
  • Education
  • Proud

• I feel like some sort of fiction-writing hobo, jumping trains and always hoping I'll find a good place to start a fire in the next town. And I keep having these panicky episodes where I corner my husband and rant at him: 'I don't have anywhere to write! I can't write! I don't have a place to write!'

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Fire

• Your master is he who controls that on which you have set your heart or wish to avoid.

  

  Epictetus
  • Master
  • Avoid
  • Controls

• The Master said, "To study, and then in a timely fashion to practice what you have learned - is this not satisfying? To have companions arrive from afar - is this not a joy? To remain unrecognized by others and yet remain free of resentment - is this not the mark of the gentleman?"

  

  Confucius
  • Fashion
  • Learned
  • Gentleman

• Film is a different art form with its own demands and its own riches.

  

  Katherine Dunn
  • Different
  • Art

• Being an older person now, I'm finding that people are calling me to play various things. Variations on the theme of mother, caretaker, and in some cases, doctors, heads of organizations and things like that. For some people, I'm finally old enough to play those roles. We see men playing them when they're a little bit younger, and also in roles that call for some form of conflict and violence, either generating it or trying to curtail it. Women don't seem to be a big part of those common and often used movie themes.

  

  Barbara Crampton
  • Movie
  • Mother
  • Violence

• I have no wish for a second husband. I had enough of the first. I like to have my own way to lie down mistress, and get up master.

  

  Susanna Moodie
  • Husband
  • Master
  • Mistress