Anne Conway Quotes

To Armenians, half Armenians, quarter Armenians, and one-eight Armenians. Sixteen and thirty-second Armenians, and other winners, are likelier to be happy with a useful book

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• We put more emphasis on who can drive a car than on who can be a parent. And I think there ought to be mandatory parenting classes starting in high school, and you should have to have a license to be able to be a parent to explain that you don't give alcohol to kids.

  

  Dale Archer
  • School
  • Kids
  • High

• One of the things I wonder is whether it's good that the whole free model makes a lot of people listen to more of your music. I'm wondering if it devalues it, it becomes disposable, because you can get it so easily.

  

  Tablo
  • People
  • Good
  • Music

• Why do elites hate the poor? It's xenophobia. They don't know any poor people - except their off-the-books Brazilian nanny and illegal immigrant cleaning lady from Upper Revolta who don't speak English.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Why
  • Hate

• As I watched bookstores close, I began to wonder how that felt for the owners. Owning a bookstore was their dream and now they're struggling and seeing those dreams fall apart.

  

  Karen Kingsbury
  • Dream
  • Fall
  • Wonder

• I have many debates now with friends on the changes, and the continuing confusion over bringing up your children, instilling values, letting them make the right choices.

  

  Olivia Williams
  • Up
  • Children
  • Friends

• I hope I am remembered by my children as a good father.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Good
  • Children
  • Hope

• I like heels and make-up.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Up
  • Like
  • Makeup

• Only one thing registers on the subconscious mind: repetitive application - practice. What you practice is what you manifest.

  

  Fay Weldon
  • Mind
  • You
  • Practice

• I'm pretty ruthless about that; I think when you sign over your story, you sign over your story.

  

  Rachel Griffiths
  • Think
  • Pretty
  • You

• It's hard to be serious in life.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Life
  • Serious
  • Hard

• The culture of a workplace - an organization's values, norms and practices - has a huge impact on our happiness and success.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Success
  • Culture
  • Happiness

• God can be realized through all paths. All religions are true. The important thing is to reach the roof. You can reach it by stone stairs or by wooden stairs or by bamboo steps or by a rope. You can also climb up by a bamboo pole.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • Up
  • God
  • Important

• You cannot make thousands of universities or hundreds of thousands of professors, but with technology and the Internet you can have great courses and make a digital university.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Great
  • Technology
  • Internet

• That phrase, 'loss of innocence,' has become stale with overuse and diminishing returns; no other culture is so addicted to this narcissistic impression of itself as having any innocence to lose in the first place.

  

  Christopher Hitchens
  • Culture

• I'm a graphic-novel guy. I can't handle the wait for monthly or bi-monthly comics; I need the story finished so I can buy the whole thing.

  

  Chris Wooding
  • Guy

• My home has a split personality. Some of the rooms are very French antique. Think Aubusson rugs, turquoise ceramic jugs, sandbag pillows, and broken birdcages. The other half is very Aztec. Neon ikat fabric pillows, vintage books piled up to the ceiling, and shutters from Bali.

  

  Poppy Delevingne
  • Up
  • Home
  • Personality

• My mother and father had a terrible marriage. They celebrated their wedding anniversary one year with their friends. Why did they celebrate? Maybe because they had lasted so many years without killing each other.

  

  Marina Abramovic
  • Why
  • Friends
  • Mother

• I have so many moments. I am extremely passionate about life and at the same time, I'm always depressed, so everything's always happening at the same time for me. It's the best day and the worst day too.

  

  Amy Ray
  • Life
  • Time
  • Moments

• I've never competed in powerlifting. But my goals weren't to be a powerlifter. My goals were to pack on size and get big, big, big.

  

  Kai Greene
  • Goal
  • Goals
  • Bigs

• My first job ever was on 'Peak Practice.' I just had to walk up the stairs. They kept the take where I slipped slightly, which was annoying.

  

  Vicky McClure
  • Up
  • Job
  • Practice

• He was also very clear that the decision to cast me as Cora was all Michael's.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Me
  • Decision
  • Very

• We are writing fiction, but we are trying to create a world that's believable.

  

  Mary Kay Andrews
  • World
  • Writing
  • Trying

• Growing up in Canada, I used to love a walk in the early morning, when the streets are quiet and the sun was shining. Walking in the morning is still very refreshing... and if I can, I will walk to my first meeting or appointment.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Morning
  • Sun
  • Quiet

• To Armenians, half Armenians, quarter Armenians, and one-eight Armenians. Sixteen and thirty-second Armenians, and other winners, are likelier to be happy with a useful book

  

  Anne Conway
  • Book
  • Useful
  • Winners