Anna Olson Quotes

Success is seldom permanent, and failure is seldom fatal. The important thing is to keep trying.

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• There are successful scholars, public-spirited scholars, upright scholars, cautious scholars, and those who are merely petty men.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Men
  • Successful
  • Petty

• It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.

  

  Earl Warren
  • Law
  • Justice
  • Spirit

• Barbara Castle was a hero to millions of British women. She inspired a new generation of women to become active in Labour politics, including, of course Labour's deputy leader, Harriet Harman.

  

  Patricia Hewitt
  • Women
  • Inspired
  • Hero

• I'm proud of 'Fifty Shades of Grey.' I don't need to distance myself from that. The more work I do, the more the general public sees the different things I can do. Do I think it opened doors? Yeah. More people know my name.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • People
  • Work
  • Different

• I'm sponsored by Audi, so I have this rather lovely rather arrangement where they just insist that I'm always in the latest model.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Always
  • Model
  • Lovely

• One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice-president, and that one word is 'to be prepared'.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Up
  • Responsibility
  • One Word

• My fans want me to talk to them. And even if they want to be critical, I want to hear what they've got to say.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • Want
  • Fans
  • Say

• Nonfiction requires enormous discipline. You construct the terms of your story, and then you stick to them.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • You
  • Story
  • Discipline

• 'Harry Potter' gave me back self respect. Harry gave me a job to do that I loved more than anything else.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Job
  • Respect
  • Self

• The movies I make - the goal isn't a mass audience. They're not expensive films. So the attempt is to reach a much more limited audience - one would say an audience that enjoys films that challenge them emotionally and intellectually.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Challenge
  • Goal
  • Movies

• He who aims at making an entire and perfect oblation of himself, in addition to his will, must offer his understanding, which is a further and the highest degree of obedience.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Perfect
  • Understanding
  • Will

• A man and a woman Are one. A man and a woman and a blackbird Are one.

  

  Wallace Stevens

• When it comes to the application to life of existing laws and morals, woman, because of her willing receptiveness, her elasticity and adaptability combined with her power of tenacious retention, has exerted an influence, the value of which is too vast to be measured.

  

  Ellen Key
  • Life
  • Power
  • Value

• Our most fundamental social need, it turns out, to my amazement, is love. Now, I'm not a hippie-dippie whatever. If you look at the literature, our most fundamental need for children is an environment of maximum love, and that they can be hugged, kissed, and loved. That's what humanises us and allows us to realise our whole dimension.

  

  David Suzuki
  • Children
  • Environment
  • Literature

• I learned five chords; I thought I knew it all.

  

  Dave Davies The Kinks

• Acting is the most demanding, painful job in the world.

  

  Arthur Smith
  • World
  • Job

• Charlestoning is hard. People were fit in the '20s to be able to do that. I guess they didn't sit in front of their computers all day.

  

  Elizabeth Debicki
  • People

• Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood.

  

  Louise J. Kaplan
  • Childhood

• Uncle Junior is a criminal, which makes him a villain, so it makes people want to watch him. My whole life as an actor has been preparing for something like this.

  

  Dominic Chianese
  • People
  • Life
  • Uncle

• I'm from Southern California, so I feel much more comfortable with a golf club in my hand than I do a weapon.

  

  Bert Blyleven
  • Hand
  • Golf
  • California

• Women like me aren't supposed to run for office.

  

  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
  • Women

• There was a vacuum in investigation, and the press began to try men in the most effective court in the country.

  

  Daniel Schorr
  • Men
  • Country
  • Trying

• I learned from my mom to always keep pushing yourself.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Mom
  • Always
  • Yourself

• Success is seldom permanent, and failure is seldom fatal. The important thing is to keep trying.

  

  Anna Olson
  • Trying
  • Success
  • Failure