African Spir Quotes

Up to here, in general, we have mainly stuffed the brain of the young people with a indigestible multitude of varios notions, without thinking about enough of the prime necessity to form their character.

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• There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Time
  • Never
  • Word

• It's not like I've ever been the popular pretty girl at school or anything. I was always such a weirdo.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • School
  • Pretty
  • Girl

• I'm still learning my craft, and I've been writing since I was nine.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Writing
  • Learning
  • Craft

• The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Past
  • Beginning
  • Twilight

• I started out as a dancer as a kid; I've been dancing since I was 4. So, performing was always part of what I was. I don't know if it I enjoyed the response I got from people or if I liked having an audience, but there's something in me that wanted to perform.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • People
  • Audience
  • Kid

• For 25 years, it has been my privilege to represent the city of San Francisco and the great state of California; to work to strengthen our vibrant middle class; to secure opportunity and equality.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Work
  • Great
  • Opportunity

• I think a lot of theater actors that were great, like Walken or Glenn Close, later became film actors.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • Great
  • Think
  • Film

• I could not be one of those actors who stays in character all day long. I'd go mad.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Long
  • Character
  • Day

• What has been forgotten is that there were major intellectual breakthroughs in the 1960s, thanks to North American writers of an older generation. There was a rupture in continuity, since most young people influenced by those breakthroughs did not enter the professions.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • People
  • American
  • Thanks

• I am a very strict mother, and as a mother, it's my responsibility to guide my kids and tell them to go how far and no further. There should be rules and guidelines for the kids, and they should know their limits.

  

  Kajol
  • Kids
  • Mother
  • Responsibility

• I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • World
  • Great
  • Believe

• I think it's time that we all be there for the children, to learn from the ones who came before us, and to teach our sons and daughters to have respect for themselves.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Time
  • Children
  • Respect

• I want to be the best.

  

  Odell Beckham, Jr.
  • Want
  • Best

• Even the good she found in him was really the goodness she had put in him, the goodness he had put on himself as a disguise in order to get her to marry him.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Good
  • She

• Folks should do their own fuckin', then they wouldn't want to listen to a lot of clatfart about another man's.

  

  D. H. Lawrence

• If nothing were left of an extinct race but a single button, I would be able to infer, form the shape of that button, how these people dressed, built their houses, how they lived, what was their religion, their art, their mentality.

  

  Adolf Loos
  • People
  • Art
  • Single

• No doubt, when modesty was made a virtue, it was a very advantageous thing for the fools, for everybody is expected to speak of himself as if he were one.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Doubt

• 'The Theory Of Everything' was a charming story, but I never dreamed it would turn out the way it did, winning all sorts of awards, and I don't think anybody working on it did.

  

  Charlie Cox
  • Winning

• But when you have bad governance, of course, these resources are destroyed: The forests are deforested, there is illegal logging, there is soil erosion. I got pulled deeper and deeper and saw how these issues become linked to governance, to corruption, to dictatorship.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • Bad
  • Corruption
  • Dictatorship

• A man is himself important precisely in proportion that all things seem important to him.

  

  Otto Weininger
  • Important

• My most recent faith struggle is not one of intellect. I don’t really do that anymore. Sooner or later you just figure out there are some guys who don’t believe in God and they can prove He doesn't exist, and there are some other guys who do believe in God and they can prove He does exist, and the argument stopped being about God a long time ago and now it’s about who is smarter, and honestly I don’t care.

  

  Donald Miller
  • Time
  • God
  • Believe

• Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Great
  • Live
  • Character

• Up to here, in general, we have mainly stuffed the brain of the young people with a indigestible multitude of varios notions, without thinking about enough of the prime necessity to form their character.

  

  African Spir
  • Character
  • Notions
  • Stuffed