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.Willa Cather
Quotes to Explore
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I've always played strong women who are doing their own thing.
Yancy Butler -
I got to be good friends with Scott Hamilton.
D. B. Sweeney -
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 -
The conviction of our Ukrainian nation is embedded in the pages of its history.
Viktor Yushchenko -
God has taken away the greatest man of his generation, for Dr. Livingstone stood alone.
Florence Nightingale -
Water boarding: Is that like snowboarding?! 12.
Ze Frank
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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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Purchased experiences don't count.
Douglas Coupland
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I have plenty of 'Law & Order' on my resume.
Jesse L. Martin -
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 -
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 -
I discovered that silent film is almost an advantage. You just have to think of the feeling for it to show. No lines pollute it. It doesn't take much - a gaze, an eyelash flutter - for the emotion to be vivid.
Jean Dujardin -
I have to have lemon and honey. I have to have apple cider vinegar, Braggs. And I have to have either Red Vines or Twizzlers. These things, you know, are the things that help my vocal performance.
Mary J. Blige -
It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.
Mark Twain
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I'm an optimist. My own fiction, while it has its own dark warnings about pitfalls ahead, depicts the potential of science to improve society by networking human minds.
Ramez Naam -
Yes, you can-if you do everything as if it were the last thing you were doing in your life, and stop being aimless, stop letting your emotions override what your mind tells you, stop being hypocritical, self-centered, irritable. (Hays translation)
Marcus Aurelius -
Obviously, at this age, I've lost people in my life. But with a parent, it's just different. I was very attached to my father and had this naive little-girl notion that he'd always be around. So I'm finding acceptance of my father's death is the hardest thing to accept.
Carol Leifer -
Believe it or not, I'm pretty good at just doing nothing.
Cate Blanchett -
I guess I'm drawn to artists and literary people and want to learn about them.
Nancy Horan -
When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them, as if their reason had left them.
Willa Cather