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.Winifred Holtby
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I don't understand why every guy is not a romantic. I enjoy it.
Aaron Paul -
Female can understand more detail and really care for the consequence and understand all the process.
Yingluck Shinawatra -
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.
Yolandi Visser -
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.
Vanessa Ferlito -
What we're doing to the planet is inexcusable.
Ian Somerhalder -
It's hard for us to really understand the immensity so far of the conquest of space.
Walter Cronkite
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I veer away from trying to understand why I act. I just know I need to do it.
Ralph Fiennes -
I can understand the Cultural Revolution of Mao Tse-tung.
Ferdinand Marcos -
I didn't even understand the whole idea of Hollywood.
Radha Mitchell -
I was driven completely by a desire to understand how cells worked.
Randy Schekman -
Unless we remember we cannot understand.
E. M. Forster -
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.
Karen Joy Fowler
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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.
Daniel Barenboim -
Each person's body type is different, and they need to understand that food should be eaten in regular portions.
Karan Singh Grover -
We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power.
Manuel Puig -
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.
Samantha Power -
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.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Understand that we are all co-creators of our respective destinies.
Mahershala Ali
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There is a hint of despair in the cry of 'I told you so,' an element of disappointment in the apparent satisfaction when idols turn out to have clay feet. The human race, when it thinks it has proved that no one is superior, is partly gratified and partly depressed.
Alice Thomas Ellis -
You will never understand why God does what He does, but if you believe Him, that is all that is necessary. Let us learn to trust Him for who He is.
Elisabeth Elliot -
It takes heart to be in political life.
Pat Nixon -
I have no courage to write much unless I am written to. I soon begin to think that there are plenty of other correspondents more interesting - so if you all want to hear from me you know the conditions.
George Eliot -
We can all agree that no American should lose their life savings or their home because of illness or injury and that the rising cost of health care severely burdens individuals, families and businesses.
Judd Gregg -
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.
Winifred Holtby