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

• 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 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

• '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

• I was thinking of writing a little foreword saying that history is, after all, based on people's recollections, which change with time.

  

  Frederik Pohl
  • People
  • Time
  • Thinking

• I hesitate to use a pathologizing label, but underneath the so-called narcissistic personality is definitely shame and the paralyzing fear of being ordinary.

  

  Brené Brown
  • Fear
  • Personality

• The successful men I admired all built their bodies.

  

  Dwayne Johnson
  • Men

• All you can do is the best you can do.

  

  Lloyd Blankfein

• Obviously, a skirt does present certain problems that I had to be aware of. But when it came to the shoot and we were rolling, I didn't really pay it any attention. It wasn't too bad.

  

  Chiaki Kuriyama
  • Bad
  • Attention
  • Present

• I love coming home to somebody, I love being in a relationship.

  

  Daniel Radcliffe
  • Home
  • Relationship

• Living the same sorrows three times was a suffering, but it was a suffering to relive even the same joys. The joy of life is born from feeling, whether it be joy or grief, always of short duration, and woe to those who know they will enjoy eternal bliss.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Life
  • Feeling
  • Joy

• Women are the first witnesses to the resurrection and pillars of the early church.

  

  John Ortberg
  • Women
  • Church

• Every character I've played is like family to me.

  

  Beth Grant
  • Family
  • Character

• Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.

  

  Charles de Montesquieu

• I think it's really hard to move between genres, and I think, especially in Britain, we're very judgmental about it - me included. I know that when an actor comes out with some poetry or an album, I think, 'Oh crikey, what's this going to be like?'

  

  Andrea Riseborough
  • Poetry

• 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