Thomas Hardy Quotes

Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?

Thomas Hardy

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• I was a regular hand when I was 7. I picked cotton. I drove tractors. Children grew up not thinking that this is what they must do. We thought this was the thing to do to help your family.

  

  B. B. King
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Children

• It's easy to fall into the trap of thinking our careers will come to a standstill, or worse, crash and burn if we aren't social media butterflies.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Thinking
  • Fall
  • Easy

• I get 0.5 seconds to react to a ball, sometimes even less than that. I can't be thinking of what XYZ has said about me. I need to surrender myself to my natural instincts. My subconscious mind knows exactly what to do. It is trained to react. At home, my family doesn't discuss media coverage.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Thinking
  • Mind
  • Family

• I want to make shoes that a woman can walk in. That's kind of what they're made for.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Woman
  • Shoes
  • Walk

• No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her won way is without enemies.

  

  Daisy Bates
  • Man
  • Way
  • Woman

• I really identified with Pocahontas' struggles as a young woman trying to identify herself in a modern, changing world and trying to stay true to her culture and heritage.

  

  Q'orianka Kilcher
  • World
  • Trying
  • True

• If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Love
  • Man
  • Woman

• I feel like a 16-year-old trapped inside a dead woman's body.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Woman
  • Body
  • Dead

• Whenever I go on a ride, I'm always thinking of what's wrong with the thing and how it can be improved.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Thinking
  • Always
  • Ride

• Everybody knows now that Marie Lightfoot, the true crime writer, is dating Franklin DeWeese, the state attorney of Howard County, Florida. They know I'm a white woman; they know he's a black man. That's not news anymore.

  

  Nancy Pickard
  • True
  • Man
  • Black

• I have never known a really chic woman whose appearance was not, in large part, an outward reflection of her inner self.

  

  Mainbocher
  • Woman
  • Reflection
  • Self

• I can remember being at Sandringham, for the first time, at Christmas. And I was worried what to give the Queen as her Christmas present. I was thinking, 'Gosh, what should I give her?'. I thought, 'I'll make her something.' Which could have gone horribly wrong. But I decided to make my granny's recipe of chutney.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Remember

• As a black and as a woman, I didn't think that I would really want to live in any of the eras before this, because I would inevitably be worse off. I would have spent more time struggling just to prove I was human than doing my work.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Time
  • Work
  • Live

• Sexy is about the way you wear something and being confident - the clothes are sexy and flattering. I've said right from the beginning, it's very important clothes are flattering. I want a woman to look and feel like the best version of herself.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Important
  • Best
  • Beginning

• He picked up from me a certain way of thinking, certain logic, certain cut of mind. He has got from his mother a facility with words, and a certain intuition. So please do give him some slack, if you find that he thinks slowly, and speaks even more slowly.

  

  Lee Kuan Yew
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Mind

• I live three blocks away from the beach, so every day I walk down to the beach to run or go swimming. Hiking is a big one for me - so long as it's something where I'm not thinking about working out, like in a contrived class or the gym.

  

  Dylan Penn
  • Thinking
  • Long
  • Live

• I'm thinking, 'Man, there's this whole other group of people that are attached to me because of my last name and my family's roots.' That's pretty cool. That's special, that's a lot of power and it's important.

  

  Mark Sanchez
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Important

• I think about and study people. I think I make people uneasy sometimes by being so curious as to why they do what they do. I find myself thinking about this fairly obsessively, and I can't stop until I've found an answer.

  

  Antonya Nelson
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Why

• When I was a girl, I would make up songs for fun. Then I realized, after making them up, that I could remember how they went a week later - I remember that's when I thought: Maybe I'm gonna be a singer.

  

  Marion Hall
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Fun

• If wealth is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Knowledge
  • Security
  • Independence

• The music kind of possesses me when I sing. So whenever I start to sing on a show - I mean, first, I'm nervous, and then when I get into it, it's just like I feel like I'm the person who sang the song first.

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • Music
  • Song
  • Start

• Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?

  

  Thomas Hardy
  • Thinking
  • Woman
  • Wanting