Winifred Holtby Quotes

You are quite, quite wrong if you think that ... I find your happiness painful. What matters is that happiness - the golden day - should exist in the world, not much to whom it comes. For all of us it is so transitory a thing, how could one not draw joy from its arrival?

Winifred Holtby

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• Happiness
• Exist
• Golden Day

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• Comic strips are like a public utility. They're supposed to be there 365 days a year, and you're supposed to be able to hit the mark day after day.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • You
  • Day
  • Year

• The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think.

  

  Malcolm de Chazal
  • Think
  • Man
  • Laugh

• I wish - I wish the peace and good for the Syrian citizen and the Syrian regime.

  

  Najib Mikati
  • Good
  • Peace
  • Wish

• To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Remember
  • Death
  • Me

• Public schools helped create the idea of America and inculcate Americans with a few rudiments of knowledge. To judge by that very American item, the Internet, a few rudiments is all anyone cares to have.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • American
  • America
  • Knowledge

• Google never knew how successful key words would be.

  

  Yuri Milner
  • Words
  • Successful
  • Key

• Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa. If Nigeria succeeds at democratic governance it will be an anchor for all of West Africa. Africa needs a strong Nigeria.

  

  Ed Royce
  • Country
  • Strong
  • Anchor

• If the courts regarded tweets and other social media information as private, it would not prevent the law enforcement from getting information it really needs. But the government would have to get a search warrant, which requires it to show that it has probable cause connecting what is being searched to a crime.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Law
  • Search
  • Social Media

• To see things in the seed, that is genius.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • See
  • Genius
  • Seed

• I looked up at several pockmarks in the nearest wall; if they weren’t bullet holes, the place had damned big hailstones.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Up
  • Wall

• The poor didn’t have them and so the rich flaunted them, the larger and more conspicuous the better.

  

  Alastair Reynolds

• There is one particular argument that I call our 'ancient war.' If it could be summed up in one phrase, it would be, 'You don't get it. You don't understand what it's like to be me living with you.' There is such truth in that statement. None of us can really appreciate what it is like to be the other person, what that point of view feels like.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Up
  • Truth
  • War

• We don't want to plaster Mumbai with pictures of Will Smith. We want to make an exchange. We want to do films there as well as introduce Indian actors and directors to the United States.

  

  James Lassiter

• One thing I always think about is, at the end of the day, nobody really cares about you as much as they do about themselves. It's a very reassuring thing, in a good way. Pay attention to yourself, and use that energy and put it towards yourself.

  

  Lauren Cohan
  • Good
  • Energy
  • Attention

• God has ways of shaking the world when He is at work. He literally caused the ground to quake when Jesus died on the cross.

  

  Charles Stanley
  • World
  • Work
  • God

• 'Wild Things' is saying, 'I don't have to belong anywhere. This is where I belong.' It's a place in the back of my mind that I created, and it's cool, and I love it here.

  

  Alessia Cara
  • Mind
  • Cool

• I've always been self-conscious about my personality.

  

  Alessia Cara
  • Personality

• I haven't got purity, and I don't think I ever did. I have always been, even as a child, a very decadent little person.

  

  Marianne Faithfull

• You never realize how much your mother loves you till you explore the attic - and find every letter you ever sent her, every finger painting, clay pot, bead necklace, Easter chicken, cardboard Santa Claus, paperlace Mother's Day card and school report since day one.

  

  Pam Brown
  • School
  • Mother
  • Painting

• Emotion is set in our genome and that we all have with a certain programmed nature that is modified by our experience so individually we have variations on the pattern. But in essence, your emotion of joy and mine are going to be extremely similar.

  

  Antonio Damasio
  • Experience
  • Nature
  • Joy

• The joy of life is made up of obscure and seemingly mundane victories that give us our own small satisfactions.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Life
  • Up
  • Small

• I cannot be subservient anywhere.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Subservient

• When it comes to bringing an idea that God has given you to fruition, don't wait for it to happen again, you have to get out there and make it happen.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • God

• You are quite, quite wrong if you think that ... I find your happiness painful. What matters is that happiness - the golden day - should exist in the world, not much to whom it comes. For all of us it is so transitory a thing, how could one not draw joy from its arrival?

  

  Winifred Holtby
  • Joy
  • Happiness
  • Exist