Ann Radcliffe Quotes

One act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world.

Ann Radcliffe

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• When I was nine years old, my family lost our home, and the six of us moved into my grandparents' converted garage.

  

  Becky G
  • Family
  • Home
  • Lost

• I come from nothing, and growing up, I really didn't have many people to inspire me, at least no good people to inspire me.

  

  Fat Joe
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• When you know your intention, you are in a position to choose the consequences that you will create for yourself. When you choose an intention that creates consequences for which you are willing to be responsible, that is a responsible choice.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Yourself
  • Choice
  • Choose

• In 'Haraamkhor,' I have explored a few things which I wouldn't have been able to do in bigger films. The process of shooting this film was so organic that it enhanced me as an actor and an artiste.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Actor
  • Process
  • Films

• I have not seen 'Vaalu' yet, but I am sure it will be good.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Good
  • Vaalu

• CEOs and employers at for-profit corporations should not be able to prevent women from access to health care simply because of their own personal religious objections.

  

  Dan Maffei
  • Women
  • Health
  • Religious

• Whether it's as the hero of an adventure story, as teacher and friend, as icon on watch, shirt or hat - everyone knows Mickey Mouse.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Friend
  • Teacher
  • Hero

• It's time to acknowledge that more government and higher taxes is not the answer to our problem.

  

  Dan Coats
  • Time
  • Problem
  • Government

• I lived in San Pedro, California, which is, you know, on the west side of California, and it's where many, many Japanese lived.

  

  Yuri Kochiyama
  • You
  • Know
  • California

• I am a free lover. I have an inalienable, constitutional and natural right to love whom I may, to love as long or short a period as I can; to change that love every day if I please.

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • Long
  • Love
  • May

• By the law of averages, there has to be life elsewhere. The universe is so huge, and I don't think God would have created this whole big huge cosmos and just say there's only going to be life on Earth, and that's it.

  

  Gary Wright
  • Life
  • God
  • Earth

• I did send a girl a plane ticket asking her for a visit, I guess that's quite romantic.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Girl
  • Romantic
  • Her

• I am dying to do an action movie. I can do my own stunts; I can do this.

  

  Mackenzie Foy
  • Movie
  • Action
  • Stunts

• To me, 'rock star' conjures up something like a mystic: someone who sees himself as above other people, someone who has the key to the secret that people want to know.

  

  Beck
  • People
  • Up
  • Me

• I am delighted to be joining 'Guardian U.S.'s team as a weekly columnist, and to have the chance to address American and global current events on its distinguished platform. 'Guardian U.S.' brings the 'Guardian's hard-hitting investigative brand to a new focus on American news and opinion.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • American
  • Team
  • Focus

• When they talk to me, people say, 'I didn't expect you to be how you are.'

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • People
  • Talk
  • Expect

• The top salesperson in the organization probably missed more sales than 90% of the sales people on the team, but they also made more calls than the others made.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • People
  • Team
  • Organization

• My personal view is that organisations have a capacity to throw up extraordinary leaders to suit the occasion.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Up
  • View
  • Personal

• In mathematics and science definition are simple, but bare-bones. Until you get to a problem which you understand it takes hundreds and hundreds of pages and years and years of learning.

  

  Benoit Mandelbrot
  • Science
  • Simple
  • Learning

• May we feel after Thee; still calling out in the darkness, as children waking in the night call "Father," so may we call out for God; and, at times, even if we do not hear Thy voice, may there be the form of a hand resting upon us, and that shall be enough; for we shall take hold of it, though it be in the dark, and it shall guide us to the growing light; for the day shall come, and the release and triumph.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • God
  • Children
  • Father

• The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is the major achievement of President Obama's first term.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Care
  • Achievement
  • Act

• They (FEMA officials) just don't have their act together, ... They didn't know where their evacuees are; they didn't know how many each state had. Those are basic questions. You need competence at the top to manage these large-scale disasters.

  

  Janet Napolitano
  • Act
  • Questions
  • Disasters

• Being an artist and a human in this world always means confronting people who make you feel like you have to act according to their rules.

  

  Alice Merton
  • Feel
  • Rules
  • Act

• One act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world.

  

  Ann Radcliffe
  • Act
  • Usefulness
  • Beneficence