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
  • Women
  • Strong
  • Doing

• I got to be good friends with Scott Hamilton.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Good Friends

• 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
  • Music
  • They Say

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

  

  Viktor Yushchenko
  • History
  • Nation
  • Conviction

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

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Time
  • Movies
  • Television

• 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
  • Truth

• 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

• 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
  • Empathy

• No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time.

  

  Emma Goldman
  • Time
  • Great
  • Law

• Purchased experiences don't count.

  

  Douglas Coupland

• I have plenty of 'Law & Order' on my resume.

  

  Jesse L. Martin
  • Law

• I was working at Papa John's full-time. I had just quit my part-time job at UPS. I was there for two years.

  

  Bryson Tiller
  • Time
  • Job

• If someone complains about Europe from Monday to Saturday, then nobody is going to believe him on Sunday when he says he is a convinced European.

  

  Jean-Claude Juncker
  • Believe
  • Sunday
  • Saturday

• It'd be really nice to wake up looking like, I don't know, Jake Gyllenhaal and think, 'Let's try this on for a day and see how it feels.'

  

  Benedict Cumberbatch
  • Up
  • Nice

• What good is telling America's children that they will have equal opportunity for education if they don't have the skills that will even get them to the point of benefiting from education, because they didn't have the child care, the health care that would enable them to grow as strong and constructive human beings?

  

  Janet Reno
  • Good
  • Children
  • America

• 'Watchmen' is like the music you feel is written just for you. 'That's my song, no one else gets that but me.' That's why the fan base is so rabid, because they feel personal about it.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Music
  • Feel
  • Fan

• If ever there was a book calculated to make a man in love with its author, this appears to me to be the book.

  

  William Godwin
  • Men
  • Book

• There is not an amount of money that a writer can earn that I can't blow.

  

  David Milch
  • Money
  • Blow

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

  

  Willa Cather