Winifred Holtby Quotes

No truth is strong enough to defeat a well-established legend.

Winifred Holtby

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• We shook up the industry with our landscape-changing deal to acquire Time Warner, the logical next step in our strategy to bring together world-class content with best-in-class distribution which will drive innovation and more choice for consumers.

  

  Randall L. Stephenson
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• The privileged classes today are bothered about petrol and diesel prices while the poor can't afford two meals a day. I am a very small person, but I want us to think beyond personal and regional interests.

  

  Lata Mangeshkar
  • Person
  • Poor
  • Interests

• Pregnancy isn't 'I can eat whatever I want,' because you have to remember you're going to be stuck with a lot of that weight afterwards that you need to try to get off.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Remember
  • Want
  • Try

• In Mexico we have a trick - add a crystal of salt to the kettle and the tea tastes better, almost English. But after four pots, your kettle's broken.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • English
  • Better
  • Broken

• When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Nature
  • Tree
  • Bird

• Simplicity should not be identified with bareness.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Should
  • Simplicity

• I've always known that Rio and Tokyo are my two Olympics. Now that Rio hasn't gone to plan, Tokyo has to work, and I'm more motivated than ever.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Work
  • Always
  • Motivated

• If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Job
  • Lost

• Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Energy
  • Yourself
  • Boat

• Personality is so important - when you dress somebody for a big party, it is good to feel that the person has an ease and naturalness with what she is wearing.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Good
  • Important
  • She

• One man's piss-soaked sadomasochistic orgy is another man's poetic ecstasy.

  

  Dan Savage

• Such is the custom of Branksome Hall.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Custom
  • Branksome Hall

• Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one's role in relation to all other beings. For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving, depriving.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • World
  • Understanding

• I did not send classified material, and I did not receive any material that was marked or designated classified.

  

  Hillary Clinton

• 'And if it's proud to have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts,' Miss Jenny struck in, flushed, 'she is proud.'

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Heart
  • She
  • Proud

• Having a leading man who is actually prettier than you are is quite upsetting.

  

  Kristin Scott Thomas

• I try not to cheat on my boyfriends when I have them.

  

  Chelsea Handler

• I think it's a mistake for the American public to constantly be told that if you work for an oil company or you work for a bank, that automatically makes you bad. I think a lot of these people are very qualified people who are patriots. They're going to want to help the country.

  

  Jamie Dimon
  • People
  • Work
  • Country

• My books are about losers, about people who've lost their way and are engaged in a search.

  

  Antonio Tabucchi
  • People
  • Lost
  • Search

• The men climb the Andes.

  

  Peter Shaffer
  • Men

• Truth is eternal, unchanging, though circumstances may and do operate to give a different colour to it, in our view, at different times. And truth will prevail, and those who do not yield to it must be destroyed by it.

  

  Elijah Parish Lovejoy
  • Different
  • May
  • Truth

• There's always, I guess, a philosophy that if you come in, you want to change all the parts, you want to change everything over. I've always tried to preach that consistency and continuity are very, very important. So if I know the baseball people, and I know they're competent and could do the job, I don't see any reason to replace them.

  

  Pat Gillick
  • People
  • Important
  • Job

• She stood there bright as the sun on that California coast.He was a Midwestern boy on his own.She looked at him with those soft eyes, so innocent and blue.He knew right then he was too far from home.He was too far from home.

  

  Bob Seger
  • Home
  • She
  • Eyes

• No truth is strong enough to defeat a well-established legend.

  

  Winifred Holtby
  • Truth
  • Legend
  • Defeat