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 have come to understand that in order to effectively advance women's rights, we need to galvanize a global women's movement.
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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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Every burned book enlightens the world.
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"I hope to bring joy to everyone and I want to carefully see the faces of each and every one of you. I Don't know if you'll feel this or not but I hope you will be happy."
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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.
