Willa Cather Quotes

When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them, as if their reason had left them.

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• I've always played strong women who are doing their own thing.

  

  Yancy Butler
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• I get strangely obsessed about the cleanliness of my house.

  

  Utada Hikaru
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• Most of the cast and crew on 'Mama's Family' have been together since the 'Carol Burnett' days, so we work really well together. It's like I'm being paid to pretend I'm in show business.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
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• Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
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• I got to be good friends with Scott Hamilton.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
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• A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.'

  

  Barack Obama
  • Good
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• The conviction of our Ukrainian nation is embedded in the pages of its history.

  

  Viktor Yushchenko
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• I loathe and detest movies and television and don't watch any. I do not have the time.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Time
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• I cannot recall a period when I did not draw; and at school, the studies that were distasteful to me, mathematics and grammar, were retarded by the indulgence of teachers who were proud of my drawing faculties, and passed over my neglect of uncongenial subjects.

  

  Jacob Epstein
  • School
  • Proud
  • Period

• God has taken away the greatest man of his generation, for Dr. Livingstone stood alone.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • God
  • Alone
  • Taken

• Water boarding: Is that like snowboarding?! 12.

  

  Ze Frank
  • Water

• Those who think the information brought out at a criminal trial is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth are fools. Prosecuting or defending a case is nothing more than getting to those people who will talk for your side, who will say what you want said.

  

  F. Lee Bailey
  • People
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• In 1969, nationwide, female professors who had never been married and never published earned 145% of their counterpart male colleagues.

  

  Warren Farrell

• Like when Jay Leno made jokes about Koreans eating dog, but the hidden messages, our invisibility, is more harmful to us than any of those fools on 'board'.

  

  Margaret Cho
  • Dog

• The landscape of any farm is the owner's portrait of himself.

  

  Aldo Leopold

• In some ways I was curt because there's an unbelievable amount to accomplish in a day.

  

  Dawn Steel

• I am fully anticipating that something - perhaps many things - will not go according to plan on our actual wedding day. If some of the flowers are wilted, or there aren't enough vegetarian meals, or the priest calls me the wrong name, I will embrace these errors.

  

  Ellie Kemper
  • Wedding

• It's kind of funny that I've been branded as the empathy lady when, really, what I'm doing is questioning and interrogating empathy.

  

  Leslie Jamison
  • Funny
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• I'm not going to lie, I love TV. I watch a ton of it - golf, HGTV, football.

  

  Charles Kelley Lady Antebellum
  • Football
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• I began to write a kind of waltz and in a little more than an hour I had the theme written.

  

  Maurice Jarre

• I don't think in any language. I think in images.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Thinking
  • Language

• I've been very lucky and been able to work, as an actress, but I'm definitely a working actress. I get a script, I audition, and then I pray.

  

  Laura Haddock
  • Work
  • Working
  • Lucky

• When I was taken to the concentration camp of Auschwitz, a manuscript of mine ready for publication was confiscated. Certainly, my deep desire to write this manuscript anew helped me to survive the rigors of the camps I was in.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Desire
  • Survive
  • Helped

• When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them, as if their reason had left them.

  

  Willa Cather