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
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• 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
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  • Sometimes

• My journey has been that of a character actor.

  

  Harry Carey, Jr.
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• 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
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• The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Men
  • Women
  • Short

• 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
  • Up
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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
  • Truth
  • Religious
  • Spiritual

• 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
  • Up
  • Children
  • School

• 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
  • Thinking
  • Saying
  • Smiling

• Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.

  

  I. F. Stone
  • Truth
  • Slavery
  • Lie

• I'm not a goody-two-shoes. I'm just a father with four children.

  

  Rickie Lee Skaggs
  • Children
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  • Shoes

• 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
  • People
  • Up
  • Art

• Our ability to create jobs, our future growth, is built on the free market. It's built on open borders.

  

  Mark Rutte
  • Future
  • Free
  • Growth

• I give myself a non-negotiable eight-hour sleep opportunity every night.

  

  Matthew Walker
  • Night
  • Opportunity
  • Sleep

• 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
  • Music
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• I want to create the content I didn't have while growing up.

  

  Janet Mock
  • Up
  • Growing

• It is now possible to quantify people's levels of happiness pretty accurately by asking them, by observation, and by measuring electrical activity in the brain, in degrees from terrible pain to sublime joy.

  

  Polly Toynbee
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Pain

• Also, getting the chance to play a supporting part meant that I didn't have to do as much as the protagonist, such as running around telling the story. [As the protagonist] you push the story whereas, paradoxically, as a character part, you have a chance to explore some of the nuance and some of the more complicated aspects of a character.

  

  Ben Affleck
  • Character
  • Running
  • Story

• If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything.

  

  Katharine Butler Hathaway
  • Time
  • You
  • Realize

• I'm un-smiteable. That's something I realized very young.

  

  Anders Holm

• If people are cool, then they are not stressed. I pity the fool that don't be cool.

  

  Mr. T
  • People
  • Cool
  • Stressed

• 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
  • Growth
  • Girls
  • Ladies