Ann Petry Quotes

If I were a maker of perfumes, I would make one and call it 'Spring,' and it would smell like this cool, sweet, early-morning air.

Ann Petry

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• The options are war versus peace, and I am delighted that, so far, it appears that peaceful negotiation has won the day.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • War
  • Peace
  • Day

• Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens.

  

  Fay Weldon
  • Everything
  • Nothing
  • Then

• It's not government that creates jobs; it's small business. Our job is to make sure they have the access to capital, the access to contracting opportunities, and the help, advice and mentoring that they need to go out and be successful.

  

  Karen Mills
  • Business
  • Job
  • Help

• Some artists are working to buy the mansion or whatever the element of fame must bear, but I spend all my money on my show.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Money
  • Fame
  • Bear

• What's hardest for me to swallow is when there is a love story, say, with a really high-profile male star and there's no reason I can't play the part. They say, 'Oh, we love Halle, we just don't want to go black with this part.'

  

  Halle Berry
  • Reason
  • Star
  • Story

• I believe in the future, and to be a good investor, you have to believe in the future.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Future

• I love Baltimore and the people who call it home, and I sincerely believe that Maryland's biggest city must serve as the economic and cultural heart of our state.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • People
  • Believe
  • Heart

• The ultimate aim of all science to penetrate the unknown. Do you realize we know less about the earth we live on than about the stars and the galaxies of outer space? The greatest mystery is right here, right under our feet.

  

  Walter Reisch
  • Live
  • Science
  • Earth

• I'm obsessed with brows, so Revlon's ColorStay Eyebrow Liner is a must, and the Just Bitten Kissable Balm Stain in Rendezvous is another obsession.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • Just
  • Obsession
  • Stain

• Whoso taketh in hand to govern a multitude, either by way of liberty or principality, and cannot assure himself of those persons that are enemies to that enterprise, doth frame a state of short perseverance.

  

  Walter Raleigh
  • Hand
  • Perseverance

• America, I know the road will be long, but I know we can get there. Yes, we will stumble, but I know we’ll get back up. That’s how a movement happens. That’s how history bends. That's how when somebody is faint of heart, somebody else brings them along and says, come on, we’re marching.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Up
  • Long
  • Heart

• Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • People

• A definition may be very exact, and yet go but a very little way towards informing us of the nature of the thing defined.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • May
  • Nature

• There ain't nothin' in this world that's worth being a snot over.

  

  Larry Wall
  • World

• A gay man has no business leading on a heterosexual woman.

  

  Lorna Luft
  • Business
  • Gay

• There was a time there in the mid '80s to the '90s there that we played six finals, three Canada Cups, we were playing hockey almost 10 months a year for a long time there.

  

  Mark Messier
  • Time
  • Long
  • Hockey

• It's really sad for me that in the United States the Latino community is losing its culture and language, especially among kids born here - a lot of them can't even speak our language.

  

  Anthony Santos Aventura
  • Kids
  • Culture
  • Community

• You'll never be disappointed if you always keep an eye on uncharted territory, where you'll be challenged and growing and having fun.

  

  Kirstie Alley
  • Fun
  • Growing

• Almost never does a single company have excellence in a multiplicity of disciplines.

  

  Leroy Hood
  • Single
  • Excellence

• I want you to understand that your first duty is to humanity. I want others to look at us and see that we care not just about ourselves but about others.

  

  Sarah Breedlove
  • Humanity

• We know that art is connected with the land, with its salt, with its smell, that outside of national culture there is no art. Cosmopolitanism - a world in which things lose their color and form, and words lose their significance. We love in our past all that we consider native, wonderful and fair.

  

  Ilya Ehrenburg
  • World
  • Art
  • Past

• What I am most grateful for is that neither of my fathers pushed the relationship; they just let things develop and didn't impose anything on me. They were both just there, emanating stability in a very unstable situation.

  

  Allegra Huston
  • Relationship

• Do little things as if they were great, because of the majesty of the Lord Jesus Christ who dwells in thee.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Little Things
  • Dwells
  • Lord Jesus Christ

• If I were a maker of perfumes, I would make one and call it 'Spring,' and it would smell like this cool, sweet, early-morning air.

  

  Ann Petry
  • Air
  • Smell
  • Perfumes