Amelia Bloomer Quotes
The costume of women should be suited to her wants and necessities. It should conduce at once to her health, comfort, and usefulness; and, while it should not fail also to conduce to her personal adornment, it should make that end of secondary importance.Amelia Bloomer
Quotes to Explore
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I started off with a company, InfoSpace, with my own funding. The company was listed among the most successful companies and I went on to start Intelius and Moon Express. Now, I focus my time on using the skills of an entrepreneur to solve many of the grand challenges facing us in the areas of education, healthcare, clean water and energy.
Naveen Jain -
People start to act very unusually when they find out that they're dying, that they don't have that many years left.
Oliver Platt -
People say that this new generation is so used to the Internet that their heads are already different. They can't read a book from beginning to end. That is not a tragedy. The book changes form.
Yoko Ono -
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
I am not the first player to have sworn on TV and I won't be the last.
Wayne Rooney -
We live in a society that penalizes highly creative individuals for their non-conformist autonomy. This makes the teaching of problem solving in design both discouraging and difficult. A...student (has) massive blocks against new ways of thinking, engendered by some 16 years of mis-education.
Victor Papanek
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How did it happen that now he could see everything so clearly. Something had given him leave to live in the present. Not once in his entire life had he come to rest in the quiet center of himself but had forever cast himself from some dark past he could not remember to a future that did not exist. Not once had he been present for his life. So his life had passed like a dream. Is it possible for people to miss their lives the way one can miss a plane?
Walker Percy -
Self-esteem and self-love are the opposites of fear; the more you like yourself, the less you fear anything.
Brian Tracy -
A woman will flirt with anybody in the world as long as other people are looking on.
Oscar Wilde -
If you can conceive something in your mind and believe it to be true, then you can achieve it.
Napoleon Hill -
I know that everybody has a dream Everybody has a dream And this is my dream, my own Just to be at home And to be all alone . . . with you.
Billy Joel -
I wish I had a better metabolism. But someone else probably wishes they could walk into a room and make friends with everyone like I can. You always want what someone else has.
Kelly Clarkson
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I write a lot of songs about my impressions from a man's point of view.
Keith Matthew Thornton -
I am an actor and of course I respond very positively to flattery.
Julia Roberts -
My gratitude to them my first teachers grows as I myself grow older.
George Sarton -
The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.
George Washington -
All know that the drop merges into the ocean but few know that the ocean merges into the drop.
Kabir -
A wound in the friendship of young persons, as in the bark of young trees, may be so grown over as to leave no scar. The case is very different in regard to old persons and old timber. The reason of this may be accountable from the decline of the social passions, and the prevalence of spleen, suspicion, and rancor towards the latter part of life.
William Shenstone