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.
Quotes to Explore
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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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.
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Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat.
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My mother certainly never altered the topics of her conversation based on children being present.
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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.
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In our league, it comes right down to the end.
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Old people are scary. And I have to face it. I am old and I am scary.
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The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.
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In a strange way, I'm way more comfortable onstage than anywhere else.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Art must not serve might.
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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.
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Listening is self-empowerment via the empowerment of others.
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The main objects of the Population Congress would be ... (f) to give certain dysgenic groups in our population their choice of segregation or sterilization.
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La tierra tiene lo que tú levantas de la tierra. Nada más tiene.
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I'll do humor about myself, I'll poke fun and everything, but that's me and I can do it to me. I think it's cruel to do it to somebody else.
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In the morning you were never violently sorry-- you made no resolutions, but if you had overdone it and your heart was slightly out of order, you went on the wagon for a few days without saying anything about it, and waited until an accumulation of nervous boredom projected you into another party.
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We were all flying around up and down the coast near Dunkirk looking for enemy aircraft which seemed also to be milling around with no particular cohesion.
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The world goes on, you go on and you change. You want to show the fans those changes, and you want to be able to verbalize them.
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Growth as a goal, to repeat, is delusion. William James, the American philosopher, talked of the 'bitch goddess success.' A philosopher of business today might well talk of the 'bitch goddess growth.'
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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.
