Winifred Holtby Quotes

The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation; it is understanding.

Winifred Holtby

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• We have a very loyal fan base, the kind tat buys the record the day it comes out, sees every show, and that's fantastic, but what about the people who would never hear about our band?

  

  Pat Mastelotto Mr. Mister
  • People
  • Day
  • Band

• At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • You
  • Grow
  • Flame

• Israel can't be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • World
  • Country
  • Freedom

• When you watch it, you're like, Wow. I look like that. But it doesn't feel like that at all. It was about communicating with Gale Harold and getting across what I wanted to say about the character.

  

  Randy Harrison
  • Character
  • You
  • Look

• I think you could ask 10 English people the same question about class and get a very different answer.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • People
  • Different
  • Think

• Women drive box office.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Women
  • Office
  • Box

• When I make a film, I am hoping to reinvent the genre a little bit. I just do it my way. I make my own little Quentin versions of them... I consider myself a student of cinema. It's almost like I am going for my professorship in cinema, and the day I die is the day I graduate. It is a lifelong study.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Die
  • Day
  • Myself

• I probably follow all sports a little bit. I like hockey quite a bit. I like football. I like college basketball when it gets down to March Madness. I like baseball. I enjoy them all. I watch them all.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • College
  • Football
  • Sports

• Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • People
  • Real
  • Why

• In 1853, American warships bullied Japan out of centuries of virtual isolation and into the modern world. The threat of force compelled Japan, like India and China before it, to accept trade agreements that were economically ruinous and eroded national sovereignty.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • World
  • American
  • India

• Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. By attempting to rigidly classify ethereal concepts like faith, we end up debating semantics to the point where we entirely miss the obvious - that is, that we are all trying to decipher life's big mysteries, and we're each following our own paths of enlightenment.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Life
  • Up
  • Trying

• Now that I'm gone, I tell you, don't smoke.

  

  Yul Brynner
  • You
  • Now
  • Smoke

• I really don't know the secret to it, but I'd like to think my desirability is a combination of my personality, my image, and, most importantly, the kind of films I do.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Know
  • Kind
  • Personality

• If people want to find me, they can. They'll see a middle-aged woman wandering around the grocery store, looking to see what to buy for dinner.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • People
  • Woman
  • Dinner

• Well, there's just some universal truths in a way that I've just observed to be true. You read Voltaire. You read modern literature. Anywhere you go, there's these observations about romantic love and what it does people, and these rotten feelings that rarely are people meaning to do that to each other.

  

  Feist
  • People
  • True
  • Way

• Whatever I think of, that's what I do. I wake up and think, 'I want to buy a car', I buy a car. I wake up and be like, 'I just want to lay in bed with my girl', I do that. I wake up and want to rap, I rap. So whatever I think of.

  

  Young Thug
  • Up
  • Girl
  • Car

• It's amazing. My kids have grown me in ways I never knew possible. The patience I've received and the love I get from them is just amazing.

  

  Candace Cameron Bure
  • Kids
  • Amazing
  • Patience

• For the nation to live, the tribe must die.

  

  Samora Machel
  • Live
  • Die
  • Nation

• Socially, the Cuban revolution created an education system and health service that remain the envy of much of the neo-liberal world.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • World
  • Education
  • Health

• Nobody has it all, but for me to even come close is amazing.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Me
  • Amazing
  • Nobody

• From a child, I knew I didn't have the face I wanted to have. My mother was a baroness. She was from Berlin; she was a silent movie actress and friends with Marlene Dietrich. So she knew all about film make-up and prosthetics and stuff like that and what they used to do in those days. And she taught me all that as a child.

  

  Pete Burns
  • Up
  • She
  • Friends

• I went to a performing arts school, and we studied musical theater, jazz vocal performance, and they kind of start you out on those things because they feel like it is a good foundation, and it was.

  

  Andra Day
  • Good
  • School

• I have a great deal of compassion for those in public life and what we have done to them.

  

  Peter Morgan
  • Life
  • Great
  • Done

• The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation; it is understanding.

  

  Winifred Holtby
  • Life
  • Understanding
  • Crown