Sylvia Ashton-Warner (Sylvia Constance Ashton-Warner) Quotes

It's just as possible to live to the full in a narrow corner as it is in bigness.

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• I guess I crave stability.

  

  Gabrielle Reece
  • Stability
  • Guess
  • Crave

• Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.

  

  Vanna Bonta
  • Life
  • Different
  • Picture

• One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgetting is happening.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Living
  • Memory
  • Loss

• I definitely want people to laugh because I don't think there's a better feeling - I think it's just so fabulous to laugh. I don't mind if people think, either. I think the brain is a very sexy organ.

  

  Kate Clinton
  • People
  • Mind
  • Feeling

• I'm here because I stand on many, many shoulders, and that's true of every black person I know who has achieved.

  

  Vernon Jordan
  • True
  • Black
  • Know

• Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.

  

  Dale Evans
  • Together
  • Song
  • Relationship

• Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of the stomach.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • Heart
  • Doubt
  • Paris

• Being elected to the Hall of Fame is about your career pretty much and your impact on the game.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Pretty
  • Game
  • Career

• No Afghans, as far as we know, have been involved in terrorist acts against our country. We shouldn't be swatting at hornets' nests we know nothing about.

  

  Gary Goetzman
  • Country
  • Know
  • Nothing

• As a black person in America, I am twice as likely as a white person to live in an area where air pollution poses the greatest risk to my health. I am five times more likely to live within walking distance of a power plant or chemical facility - which I do.

  

  Majora Carter
  • Live
  • Power
  • America

• Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • Actions
  • Experiment

• Some books claim I have already clocked up a century of Grands Prix, but let me put the record straight. Australia will be my 100th start, and I aim to mark the milestone with a cracking performance. It could even be celebrated with a victory.

  

  Damon Hill
  • Up
  • Start
  • Victory

• If you only share your best pictures, or your Facetuned self, the thought of people seeing you as you truly are can be scary.

  

  Kaia Gerber
  • People
  • Best
  • Thought

• My state has the highest child poverty rate in all of New England, above the national average.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
  • Child
  • Poverty
  • New

• Again, one of the problems I have with television, as I mentioned before, is it's trivial in many ways, and I think that a lot of folks out there are looking for new metaphors and new ways of thinking about things.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Thinking
  • Think
  • Problems

• I really did have this powerful sense, when I was in New Orleans after the storm, of watching all these profiteers descend on Baton Rouge to lobby to get rid of the housing projects and privatise the school system - I thought I was in some science-fiction experiment.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • School
  • Science
  • Powerful

• I'm only at the beginning of my career, but I feel successful in that I haven't sold out in any way, shape or form. I feel good about the choices I've made, and I don't feel like I've let go of any of my values.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Good
  • Career
  • Beginning

• Let’s say this together: 'Great me no greats', and leave this grading to posterity.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Great
  • Together

• Over the centuries, and even today, the Bible and Christian theology have helped justify the Crusades, slavery, violence against gays, and the murder of doctors who perform abortions. The words themselves are latent, inert, harmless - until they aren't.

  

  Amy Waldman
  • Today
  • Words
  • Christian

• The last fact which knowledge can discover is that the world is a manifestation, and in every way a puzzling manifestation, of the universal will to live.

  

  Albert Schweitzer
  • World
  • Live
  • Knowledge

• Growing up, I really liked 'Star Wars.' Han Solo would've been really cool to meet. But my stuff was real low-brow. I was watching 'Bugs Bunny.'

  

  Chris Evans
  • Up
  • Real
  • Growing

• America is a place where you can succeed no matter who you are. I am proof of that. But you must work very hard and be willing to endure pain. You must set a goal and win in the marketplace no matter what the air temperature. You must pay the price for success.

  

  Bill O'Reilly
  • Work
  • America
  • Success

• I've been asked for years to do a reality show. One of my criteria is that I would be given the opportunity to show a strong family unit.

  

  Kim Fields
  • Family
  • Reality
  • Strong

• It's just as possible to live to the full in a narrow corner as it is in bigness.

  

  Sylvia Ashton-Warner
  • Live
  • Possible
  • Corner