Olive Schreiner Quotes

The nations which have received and in any way dealt fairly and mercifully with the Jew have prospered, and the nations that have tortured and oppressed him have written out their own curse.

Olive Schreiner

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• Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion is the key, that it's the sine-qua-non of religion, people look kind of balked, and stubborn sometimes, as much to say, what's the point of having religion if you can't disapprove of other people?

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • People
  • Important
  • Religious

• Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Fear
  • Childhood
  • Memories

• I was the girl that didn't go to prom or my graduation because I was too busy working with producers and making music.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Music
  • Girl
  • Graduation

• Once you get a kitten, the natural thing you do is take a billion photos.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • You
  • Natural
  • Kitten

• Wikileaks didn't help confidence with American administrations because of conversations made public so easily.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • American
  • Help
  • Confidence

• I definitely enjoy working with people who can do their thing but also allow me to do my thing, you know? Who respect the process.

  

  Zendaya
  • People
  • Me
  • Respect

• I went to department stores, and there was nothing that I really loved. All the shoes were too complicated, too crazy, too ridiculous, too extreme. The platforms were so high; the shoes were so ugly, covered in crystals and feathers and crap. I just thought, 'Maybe somebody wants a beautifully simple, sexy shoe that they can actually walk in.'

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • High
  • Simple
  • Crazy

• Up until about 12 years ago we never, ever, wore flak jacket or helmets but now the nastiness has got worse.

  

  Kate Adie
  • Up
  • Never
  • Years

• The more a general is accustomed to place heavy demands on his soldiers, the more he can depend on their response.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • Place
  • Soldiers
  • Depend

• If a marker were to be erected today, it might read, in homage to his scientific courage: 'He preferred the hard truth to his dearest illusions.'

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Truth
  • Today
  • Courage

• HuhI can't turn you loose now. If I do I'm gonna loose my life. OohI can't turn you loose now. If I do I'm gonna loose my life. I can't turn you loose to nobodyI love you baby, yes I do. Give shakin' mama, I told ya. I'm in love with only you. Gotta Baby do it baby why don't yaI'll give ya everything you want.

  

  Otis Redding
  • Life
  • Why
  • Baby

• A lady, without a family, was the very best preserver of furniture in the world.

  

  Jane Austen
  • World
  • Family

• You get more joy out of the giving to others, and should put a good deal of thought into the happiness you are able to give.

  

  Eleanor Roosevelt
  • Good
  • Giving
  • Joy

• I'm a geek! I'm a fan girl; I'm very proud of that. Get me near Orlando Jones, it will not be pretty.

  

  Laeta Kalogridis
  • Pretty
  • Girl
  • Proud

• 'Teen Vogue' fortunately has proved you can have smart, political, and fashionable content delivered in one place, and you don't have to choose.

  

  Elaine Welteroth
  • Political
  • Smart
  • Teen

• For online universities, like Liverpool and the University of Phoenix, if prices drop by 60%, they still make money. But for the vast majority of traditional universities, if the prices fall by 10%, they are bankrupt; they have no wriggle room.

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • Money
  • Fall
  • Phoenix

• Music is a great energizer. It's a language everybody knows.

  

  Bill Hicks
  • Great
  • Music

• Wendy Malick and Valerie Bertinelli make fun of me, but I take care of my health - I don't abuse it.

  

  Betty White
  • Fun
  • Health
  • Abuse

• I look back on the early days of Free with Paul Kossoff with the most fondness of any of my bands, because I met him at a time when I was in London and very hungry, and we believed in each other.

  

  Paul Rodgers Bad Company
  • Time
  • Free

• Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for.

  

  John Henry Newman
  • Men
  • Words

• Courage faces fear and thereby masters it. Cowardice represses fear and is thereby mastered by it.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Fear
  • Courage
  • Masters

• Well, there are two kinds of happiness, grounded and ungrounded. Ungrounded happiness is cheesy and not based on reality. Grounded happiness is informed happiness based on the knowledge that the world sometimes sucks, but even then you have to believe in yourself.

  

  Andy Grammer
  • World
  • Believe
  • Reality

• The nations which have received and in any way dealt fairly and mercifully with the Jew have prospered, and the nations that have tortured and oppressed him have written out their own curse.

  

  Olive Schreiner