Barbara Wood Quotes

People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.

Barbara Wood

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• When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Men
  • Become
  • Civilized

• Countries have made impressive pledges to cut carbon pollution, but we have to ensure these promises become actions.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Actions
  • Become
  • Promises

• The wealthiest Americans often live as though they and their children had nothing to gain from investments in education, infrastructure, clean-energy, and scientific research.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Live
  • Children
  • Energy

• Fashion is a completely international business.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Business
  • Fashion

• I am in a charity out there to stop violence against women.

  

  Caprice Bourret
  • Women
  • Stop
  • Violence

• All emotion is involuntary when genuine.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Emotion
  • Genuine
  • Involuntary

• As I always said, if people wanted to know who James Brown is, all they have to do is listen to my music.

  

  James Brown
  • People
  • Music
  • Said

• This is a show I've always wanted to do. I wanted to do this 15 years ago. We lived in San Diego and my church group there was going to get to do it and I had everything ready to go, but they didn't get the rights. They had to change everything at the last minute, and I've been holding on to the script and director's book since then.

  

  Luke Ford
  • Book
  • Church
  • Directors

• All my pictures are a kind of revision of my original idea. This is surely very different from the way in which Japanese or Chinese artists work: their themes are pre-ordained, whereas mine are invented at will.

  

  Antoni Tapies
  • Work
  • Different
  • Idea

• I'm a dweller of the threshold and I'm waiting at the door, and I'm standing in the darkness, I don't want to wait no more.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Waiting
  • Door

• No more soul-destroying doctrine could well be devised than the doctrine that sinners can regenerate themselves, and repent and believe just when they please.

  

  Charles Hodge
  • Believe
  • Soul
  • Doctrine

• All men, well interrogated, answer well.

  

  Plato
  • Men
  • Answer
  • Interrogated

• The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Live
  • Black
  • Reading

• Day-colored wine, night-colored wine, wine with purple feet or wine with topaz blood, wine, starry child of earth.

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • Children
  • Night
  • Earth

• Property-owners are the most energetic flag-waggers and patriots in every country, but only so long as they enjoy their possessions: to safeguard those they desert God, King and Country in a twinkling.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • God
  • Long
  • Country

• People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.

  

  Barbara Wood
  • Errors
  • Sins
  • Love To Read