Abba Louisa Goold Woolson Quotes
One must always regret that law of growth which renders necessary that kittens should spoil into demure cats, and bright, joyous school-girls develop into the spiritless, crystallized beings denominated young ladies.Abba Louisa Goold Woolson
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Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.
Adam Cohen -
Would I describe myself as new Labour? I'm Labour, organised Labour. I think labels have a limited use and that's where you really get into boy stuff sometimes, just sticking on labels.
Frances O'Grady -
My journey has been that of a character actor.
Harry Carey, Jr. -
I originally got into this because of a five-year-old's begrudgery of his teacher. Mrs. Lawlor cast me as a tree, and I was disgusted. I was sure I had more to offer than that. It was like, 'OK, if you want me to be set dressing, fine, I'll take it on the chin but I'll show you - I'm going to be a big actor some day.'
Jack Reynor -
The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
Abraham Maslow -
I first went to India because of my interest in yoga, hoping to go to the Iyengar Centre in Pune for a while. That didn't work out, but I ended up on a beach in Goa, writing.
Damon Galgut
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My spiritual evolution I would describe as journey from literalism to figuratism. I now see all religious texts as pointing to an ineffable truth.
Maggie Rowe -
Across the globe, disadvantaged children are not living up to their potential because if they attend school at all, the schools are usually not designed to meet their extra needs.
Wendy Kopp -
I still do find it very difficult in the West to connect to this politeness of smiling, not saying how you're thinking or not saying how you really feel.
Waris Dirie -
Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.
I. F. Stone -
I'm not a goody-two-shoes. I'm just a father with four children.
Rickie Lee Skaggs -
A rap is a tweaked version of comedy, because comedy came first. People weren't spitting before they were doing comedy. Comedy has been relevant for years. It's the same art form, pretty much. Discovering that and applying it, I think that has made my stand-up better.
Jay Pharoah
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Our ability to create jobs, our future growth, is built on the free market. It's built on open borders.
Mark Rutte -
I give myself a non-negotiable eight-hour sleep opportunity every night.
Matthew Walker -
Love the giver more than the gift.
Brigham Young -
I was raised on a farm in East Tennessee, and my first concert was Britney Spears. It's my job as a country music artist to be honest about that.
Kelsea Ballerini -
I want to create the content I didn't have while growing up.
Janet Mock -
The important question is whether [a theory] is true, not whether envisioning an alternative is too intellectually painful to bear.
J. D. Trout
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Every time somebody calls me out or tries to start something, it's motivation.
Ryan Sheckler -
I just feel so upset when I think of all the lost years when I could have been doing stand-up gigs.
James Veitch -
Thinking more of others’ happiness than of her own was very fine; but did it not mean giving up her very individuality, quenching all the warm love, the true desires, that made her herself? Yet in this deadness lay her only comfort; so it seemed.
Elizabeth Gaskell -
One must always regret that law of growth which renders necessary that kittens should spoil into demure cats, and bright, joyous school-girls develop into the spiritless, crystallized beings denominated young ladies.
Abba Louisa Goold Woolson