Winifred Holtby Quotes
We are so little, so ignorant, so feeble an infant race crawling on a planet between immensities we haven't even begun to understand, that really we have no grounds for either congratulation or despair.
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I don't understand why every guy is not a romantic. I enjoy it.
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Female can understand more detail and really care for the consequence and understand all the process.
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You can't try and make something you think someone else will like. You can only make what you like. How can you make a song that Yo-Landi Visser likes? You don't know me. You'll never understand me.
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You have to really love women in order to really just have a respect for women and love them. No man - I don't care what kind of man it is, how feminine he is - they never could understand what we go through as far as physically and mentally.
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What we're doing to the planet is inexcusable.
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It's hard for us to really understand the immensity so far of the conquest of space.
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In order to understand the mindset of a boxer, I needed to become a boxer myself.
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I veer away from trying to understand why I act. I just know I need to do it.
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I can understand the Cultural Revolution of Mao Tse-tung.
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I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
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I didn't even understand the whole idea of Hollywood.
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I was driven completely by a desire to understand how cells worked.
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Unless we remember we cannot understand.
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I assume that we are all limited by our own brains and experiences and can only understand other people and other creatures through a kind of translation that brings them closer to us.
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You can't expect someone born into a family with no music... to understand when I'm conducting the Schoenberg Variations.
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Each person's body type is different, and they need to understand that food should be eaten in regular portions.
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We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power.
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For me, it's not an option to despair. The question is: what can we do to make someone's life better? Take the unimaginable strides made in places like Bosnia, where I cut my teeth, and Rwanda. Their stories aren't perfect, but I wouldn't have dreamt they could happen in a million years.
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New Hampshire polling data are unreliable because, when you call the Granite State's registered Republicans and independents in the middle of dinner and ask them who they're going to vote for, they have a mouth full of mashed potatoes and you can't understand what they say.
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Almost all systems of economic thought are premised on the idea of continued economic growth, which would be fine and dandy if we lived on an infinite planet, but there's this small, niggling, inconvenient fact that the planet is, in fact, finite, and that, unlike economic theory, it is governed by physical and biological reality
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I don't know how much the economy has changed since Jonathan Swift's 'A Modest Proposal.'
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Prescribing hard work for the soft, or easy work for the hardy, is generally nonsense. What is always needed in any aim is right effort, right time, right people, right materials.
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We are so little, so ignorant, so feeble an infant race crawling on a planet between immensities we haven't even begun to understand, that really we have no grounds for either congratulation or despair.
