African Spir Quotes

The appalling and shameful scene of disarray and illogicality that manifest itself in the thought and deeds of men, will no longer be seen, once these will possess an enlighten consciouness.

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• I would literally have to go meet people so they could see I didn't have big red hair and wear high heels constantly. It was just really ingrained in people.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • People
  • High
  • Hair

• An interview has become such a confrontational thing. It makes you very defensive.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • You
  • Become
  • Interview

• Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Virtue
  • Empathy
  • Judicial

• A writer is someone who tells you one thing so someday he can tell his readers another thing: what he was thinking but declined to say, or what he would have thought had he been wiser. A writer turns his life into material, and if you're in his life, he uses yours, too.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Thought

• I'm very much an observer and a conduit of thoughts and ideas.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Ideas
  • Thoughts
  • Very

• Everybody always laughs because I feel so much more comfortable with, like, a giant paper bag on my whole body and paint on my face. Sometimes I try really hard to take it all off. But inevitably what's underneath is still not a straight edge. And I don't think it ever will be.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Think
  • Sometimes
  • Body

• My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Mother
  • Me
  • Soldier

• Fifth Harmony as a group represents more confidence, more girl power, more unity. They're anthems, as opposed to confessional songwriting about one person's life when there are five individual women.

  

  Camila Cabello Fifth Harmony
  • Life
  • Women
  • Power

• I don't play many characters like myself. Oh I don't know what I am!

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Play
  • Characters

• Quod licet ingratum est. Quod non licet acrius urit.

  

  Ovid

• I think most of the things I published have been published out of desperation, not because they were perfected.

  

  M. H. Abrams

• In men this blunder still you find,-All think their little set mankind.

  

  Hannah More
  • Men

• Vanity not only distances us from God: it makes us look ridiculous.

  

  Vanity
  • God

• Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any complement and limit, but only life and reality: the female human being.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Life
  • Women
  • Reality

• When you write a short story ... you had better know the ending first. The end of a story is only the end to the reader. To the writer, it's the beginning. If you don't know exactly where you're going every minute you're writing, you'll never get there - or anywhere.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Writing
  • Beginning

• Ironclads and Maxim guns must be the ultimate arbiters of metaphysical truth.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Truth

• Like all fads, corporate governance has its zealots

  

  Conrad Black

• She was my closest friend. She was the one person, other than my husband, I could turn to in a crisis. There was a lot of resentment when I first came to town. But Patsy was strong-willed and always taking up for me. If it hadn't been for her, I don't think I would have lasted.

  

  Loretta Lynn
  • Up
  • She
  • Strong

• If you don't live in an area with good public schools, you can move to a different place if you have the financial means to do so.

  

  Betsy DeVos
  • Good
  • Different
  • Live

• You sharpen your ideas by reducing yourself to the level of the people you are with and a sense of humour and a complete relaxation, even when you’re discussing serious things, does help to mobilise friends around you. And I love that.

  

  Nelson Mandela
  • People
  • Friends
  • Help

• Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.

  

  Yul Brynner
  • Men
  • Women
  • Smart

• In a world of status, independence is key, because a primary means of establishing status is to tell others what to do, and taking orders is a marker of low status. Though all humans need both intimacy and independence, women tend to focus on the first and men on the second. It is as if their lifeblood ran in different directions.

  

  Deborah Tannen
  • World
  • Men
  • Different

• There's strong men of wisdom in many different fields. They say 5% of the people are wise and righteous and 10% are wise but use their wiseness for wickedness or to deceive others. It's like a magician: he knows the answer to the trick, but you don't. He has to keep you blind to the truth in order for the illusion to work. When you've got that kind of wisdom and somebody else doesn't, you can always take advantage of them.

  

  Robert Fitzgerald Diggs Achozen
  • People
  • Men
  • Different

• The appalling and shameful scene of disarray and illogicality that manifest itself in the thought and deeds of men, will no longer be seen, once these will possess an enlighten consciouness.

  

  African Spir
  • Men
  • Consciouness
  • Disarray