Winifred Holtby Quotes

We're so busy resigning ourselves to the inevitable that we don't even ask if it is inevitable. We've got to have courage, to take our future into our hands. If the law is oppressive, we must change the law. If tradition is obstructive, we must break tradition. If the system is unjust, we must reform the system.

Winifred Holtby

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• I love being a part of country music. I love going out and... doing things for the first time for country music. I always enjoy that.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Time
  • Music
  • Country

• I was initially very interested in public policy, but then after my masters at Harvard, I felt that it was important to get a better handle on the economics of it as well. I did my Ph.D. in macroeconomics, and my thesis - 'Why Is It That Some Countries Save And Others Not?' - was on savings.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • Important
  • Why
  • Better

• For me as an actor, daring is to tell the truth - to be yourself, no matter how the world interacts with that.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • World
  • Truth
  • Yourself

• It's rumored that doing well in real estate is to be able to close a deal. I did not find that to be the case for myself, I was probably the worst closer out there and I didn't find that was true of my top super stars either.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Real
  • True
  • Myself

• It would be easier to make money in other sectors, but since I was a kid, I liked cars.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Money
  • Kid
  • Easier

• I've been playing both sides of the law my entire career. It's not really surprising for me to be doing opposing sides simultaneously. I would argue that even though my character on 'Hawaii Five-0' originated on the wrong side of the law, I'd say he's worked his way over to the good side.

  

  Ian Anthony Dale
  • Good
  • Character
  • Career

• I never judge my own songwriting. It's just my heart. What's there to judge about your own heart?

  

  Banks
  • Heart
  • Judge
  • Own

• Now while the German money is over for Hollywood, I still have $80 million to make movies, and we will have two things coming up: less major movies and the price for actors will go down.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • Up
  • Money
  • Movies

• Travelling was a big part of my childhood and one that I value very much. In some respects, I can't help but be a bit of a gypsy as an adult. I get fidgety if I'm in one place for longer than three months.

  

  Rain Phoenix
  • Help
  • Value
  • Childhood

• My books are shelved in different places, depending on the bookstore. Sometimes they can be found in the Mystery section, sometimes in the Humor department, and occasionally even in the Literature aisle, which is somewhat astounding.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Different
  • Literature
  • Humor

• If only the people around you know you're an artist, then you're doing something wrong.

  

  Fetty Wap
  • People
  • Know
  • Artist

• Sailing is such a variable sport. There could be no wind, or there could be 25 knots. You never know what you're going to get.

  

  Hannah Mills
  • Know
  • Wind
  • Sailing

• Nature is a divine art; it cannot be the artist. It is a dominical book and cannot be the scribe. It is an embroidery and cannot be the embroiderer. It is a register and cannot be the accountant. It is the law and cannot be the power.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Art
  • Book
  • Power

• Reading develops cognitive skills. It trains our minds to think critically and to question what you are told. This is why dictators censor or ban books. It's why it was illegal to teach slaves to read. It's why girls in developing countries have acid thrown in their faces when they walk to school.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • School
  • Why
  • Reading

• Men are like pillow-cases. The colour of one may be red, that of another blue, and that of the third black; but all contain the same cotton within. So it is with man; one is beautiful, another is ugly, a third holy , and a fourth wicked; but the Divine Being dwells in them all

  

  Ramakrishna
  • Men
  • May
  • Beautiful

• Postal will be so politically incorrect and harsh, it's like a mirror to American society, and I don't think the movie will be well received by anybody. For example, Osama Bin Laden will be one of the lead characters—I think that shows the mood of the movie.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • American
  • Movie
  • Society

• People fight to preserve their frozen beliefs and then complain of the cold!

  

  Vernon Howard
  • People
  • Cold
  • Frozen

• Science, like art, is not a copy of nature but a re-creation of her.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Art
  • Nature
  • Science

• Humans get distracted when we see and touch something.

  

  Dinesh Paliwal

• Music has always been part of my family's life. My brother, sister, and I all have the same ability to pick up an instrument and play.

  

  Jack Garratt
  • Life
  • Up
  • Music

• I'm no wizard, and I don't like being thought of in that light at all. I think of a wizard as being some sort of magician or something, doing something on the sly or something, and I don't want to be thought of in that way.

  

  John Wooden
  • Light

• Methamphetamine is a hideous drug. Meth makes a person become paranoid, violent, and aggressive - making them a serious threat to society and law enforcement. And maybe more importantly, meth users are a threat to their own children and families.

  

  Dirk Kempthorne
  • Children
  • Society
  • Law

• One can regard the moral law as an illusion, and so cut himself off from the common ground of humanity.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Law
  • Humanity
  • Moral

• We're so busy resigning ourselves to the inevitable that we don't even ask if it is inevitable. We've got to have courage, to take our future into our hands. If the law is oppressive, we must change the law. If tradition is obstructive, we must break tradition. If the system is unjust, we must reform the system.

  

  Winifred Holtby
  • Law
  • Tradition
  • Reform