Ann Bridge (Mary Ann Dolling) Quotes
Do get over the idea that size has any value or merit. It is the enemy of most of the best things in the world - it is the enemy of the good life.Ann Bridge
Quotes to Explore
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
Samuel Johnson -
The Tea Party emerged from a laudably grassroots base: libertarians, fervent Constitutionalists, and ordinary people alarmed at the suppression of liberties, whether by George W. Bush or Barack Obama.
Naomi Wolf -
Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat.
Fran Lebowitz -
My mother certainly never altered the topics of her conversation based on children being present.
Gaby Hoffmann -
I went through a stage of writing my cramped hand in tiny books. My two sisters and I did have our Bronte period. My mum is from Yorkshire, and we would go up to the Moors. It tapped into our romantic visions of ourselves.
Rachel Joyce -
In our league, it comes right down to the end.
Dan Quinn
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Old people are scary. And I have to face it. I am old and I am scary.
Maggie Smith -
The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
In a strange way, I'm way more comfortable onstage than anywhere else.
Fiona Apple -
In the past, there hasn't been much reliable information about startups and small businesses available online. It's information that's really valuable, and it's information that people want to share.
Adam D'Angelo -
Most of us are at war with ourselves, are our own worst enemies. We expect a great deal of ourselves, yet we do not put ourselves in a condition to achieve great things. We are either too indulgent to our bodies, or we are not indulgent enough.
Orison Swett Marden -
I feel so much pride to represent my community and be Latino. No doubt about it, above my career and sales being a Latino comes first.
Daddy Yankee
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We won the war, but we are losing the occupation and reconstruction of Iraq. It is past time for a new approach, one that relies on accountability, responsibility, and phasing down the scope of our military commitment.
Earl Blumenauer -
Art must not serve might.
Karel Capek -
No disease of the imagination is so difficult to cure, as that which is complicated with the dread of guilt: fancy and conscience then act interchangeably upon us, and so often shift their places, that the illusions of one are not distinguished from the dictates of the other.
E. M. Forster -
Listening is self-empowerment via the empowerment of others.
Warren Farrell -
The main objects of the Population Congress would be ... (f) to give certain dysgenic groups in our population their choice of segregation or sterilization.
Margaret Sanger -
La tierra tiene lo que tú levantas de la tierra. Nada más tiene.
Antonio Porchia
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They live forever, but many of them are even more lonely and miserable than we are. Why do you think they bother with us? We teach them life’s value.
N. K. Jemisin -
There's all this talk of music needing a monetary value, this ownership of music, even that it needs a physical form. But intrinsically... it's music. It should be better than that.
Kevin Parker Tame Impala -
At the end of the day, so many things that we hold so much value with, it just doesn't even mean anything. I really try to stay focused on being really positive.
Alicia Keys -
There is such thing as a 'smart bomb' - bombs are smart these days, you know.
Adolfo Perez Esquivel -
The logical picture of the facts is the thought. (3)
Ludwig Wittgenstein -
Do get over the idea that size has any value or merit. It is the enemy of most of the best things in the world - it is the enemy of the good life.
Ann Bridge