Nella Larsen Quotes

What are friends for, if not to help bear our sins?

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• I believe strongly in the rights of women... my mother is a woman, my sister is a woman, my daughter is a woman, my wife is a woman.

  

  Abdullah of Saudi Arabia
  • Believe
  • Women
  • Mother

• I'm very happy with this new record. It's dealing with different aspects of love-it's me making a statement about people doing something with their lives. It is about caring for others.

  

  Barry White
  • People
  • Different
  • Happy

• My inspirations include the Beatles - love, love, love them - Elton John, Carole King, and Stevie Wonder.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • Wonder
  • Inspiration
  • Beatles

• I'm a guy who had to perform some way. I had to perform in some way. If not as an actor, I'd perform as an artist. It would have been something that would be outstanding in its own way.

  

  Jack Kirby
  • Guy
  • Way
  • Artist

• So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

  

  Lee Iacocca
  • Up
  • Long
  • May

• The less you think counterfactually, the less you experience stress. Stress, in this light, isn't a bad thing. It's simply a warning system telling you that your mind has lost touch with what's real.

  

  Andrew Bernstein
  • Thinking
  • Mind
  • Real

• I don't take advances for my books.

  

  Andrew Vachss
  • Book

• Dropping her hand, she turned in his arms. Then, rising up on tiptoe, she cupped his face in her palms and drew him down. Her kiss was innocent, vulnerable, a caress so gentle that it made him her slave between one breath and the next.

  

  Nalini Singh
  • Up
  • She
  • Hand

• That's the secret: be interesting. If you can't be interesting, shut up. There's nothing wrong with silence.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Up
  • Interesting
  • Silence

• The future will be in the hands of those of you who belong to the 21st century. You have the opportunity and responsibility to build a better humanity. This means developing warm-heartednes s in this very life, here and now. So, do whatever work you do, but ask yourselves now and then, 'How can I contribute to human beings being happier and more peaceful?'

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Life
  • Work
  • Future

• I know what's best for me, after all I have been in the Claudette Colbert business longer than anybody.

  

  Claudette Colbert
  • Business
  • Claudette Colbert

• Radical innovation is difficult to fund. It seems scary. And the really radical things seem even more scary.

  

  Nolan Bushnell
  • Scary
  • Innovation
  • Fund

• The merchant must be no more pessimist than optimist, since pessimism induces him to hold back his capital but optimism induces him to take such risks that he has more to tear than to hope. Abu al'Fadl Ja'far al-Dimishqi (c. 9th century) Arab writer. The Beauties of Commerce Business pays ... philanthropy begs.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Business
  • Hope

• This gives us no pleasure, ... Canada is not a nation that rushes to embrace the use of force. We do not lightly endorse military action. For us it is always the last resort.

  

  Jean Chretien
  • Force
  • Nation
  • Embrace

• Happiness, then, is found to be something perfect and self-sufficient, being the end to which our actions are directed.

  

  Aristotle
  • Perfect
  • Happiness
  • Actions

• The disappointed one speaks. I searched for great human beings; I always found only the apes of their ideals.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Human Beings
  • Disappointed
  • Ideals

• What are friends for, if not to help bear our sins?

  

  Nella Larsen
  • Helping
  • Bears