Winifred Holtby Quotes

Those who prepare for war get it.

Winifred Holtby

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• It's a different era. Our job now is to show leadership and vision and to help the next generation of artists.

  

  Karen Kain
  • Different
  • Job
  • Help

• All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Education
  • Afraid

• If I could gain 1,000 pounds and be healthy, I would love to do that.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Love
  • Healthy
  • Gain

• When I wake up at 5 in the morning is it just to jog? Definitely not, I give it all of my efforts.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Up
  • Morning
  • Give

• It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Music
  • Wisdom
  • Audience

• The fashion industry certainly has its obscene sides. The cost of a coat can be obscene. So can the cost of a photo shoot if you're working with a really good photographer.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Good
  • Fashion
  • Cost

• If I don't eat something after I work out, I get shaky and cranky - not a good combination when you're a television host.

  

  Lara Spencer
  • Good
  • Work
  • Television

• Many, many people of the Revolutionary generation, the generation that fought in the Revolutionary War, understood that slavery was somehow in contradiction to what America was saying it was. And many of those folks also, at the very least, gave land to African Americans when they were liberated.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • America
  • War

• For more than two centuries since winning our own freedom, we the people of the United States have repeatedly answered the call to lead the quest for freedom around the globe.

  

  Mac Thornberry
  • People
  • Freedom
  • Winning

• I'm pretty good at sticking to what I know. You don't see me social commentating on health-care or presidential debates. I talk about what I know because I'm petrified of being wrong.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Know

• I can get a black eye, a bloody nose. I can have a bad day in the gym. At the end of the day, I don't have a bad payday, and I don't have a bad night under the lights... I get bumps, bruises... but I don't have a bad night.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Bad
  • Night
  • Black

• I was one of those weird children that just couldn't talk to people, so I kind of had to make myself be not like that because I knew it was going to hinder me.

  

  Karen Gillan
  • People
  • Children
  • Myself

• One challenge in this industry is that you adopt a certain look for a movie, and then people don't get to see the movie for a year!

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • People
  • Movie
  • Challenge

• I think I'm actually more vulnerable than people imagine.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • People
  • Think
  • More

• I've got a winner mentality, the mentality of a champion.

  

  Lamar Odom
  • Champion
  • Winner
  • Mentality

• People are thrown off by someone who looks feminine, but is also strong. It's not that pretty girls aren't smart, it's that women aren't strong.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • People
  • Women
  • Pretty

• I think Shakespeare is really the one. Words as music and music as words. Everything he wrote was good, which is really frightening.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • Good
  • Music
  • Words

• Research on the Internet, research what people say about the vintage stores, look online to see if customer service is good because that's really important. Also to see online what other customers say.

  

  Karen Elson
  • People
  • Good
  • Important

• When I first met my husband, he was sculpting Vilnius out of clay - a sort of Vilnius, anyhow: a map of an imaginary European city based on the Lithuanian capital - to illustrate his second novel.

  

  Elizabeth McCracken
  • City
  • Husband

• We're much alike, bee, you and me," I said. "You may carry your pack underneath you and your rifle may stick out of your bottom. But you and me, bee, are much alike.

  

  Michael Morpurgo
  • May
  • Said
  • Bottom

• ...most of the people in a war never fight for even a minute-though they bear for years and die forever. They do not fight, but only starve, only suffer, only die: the sum of all this passive misery is that great activity, War.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • People
  • Great
  • War

• And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

  

  Elizabeth Appell
  • Risk

• We are given up to those gods, those monsters, those giants, — our thoughts.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Gods
  • Monsters
  • Gaints

• Those who prepare for war get it.

  

  Winifred Holtby
  • War
  • Prepare