Rebecca Harding Davis Quotes

Reform is born of need, not pity.

Rebecca Harding Davis

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• I like movies about longing and desperation, and dark and light things, stories about people struggling to raise children, and to have relationships and be intimate with each other.

  

  Laura Dern
  • People
  • Children
  • Light

• I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life - that is to say, over 35 - there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Life
  • Problem
  • Religious

• I would say that the woman's ability to multi-task and to be maternal in instinct, it fosters a different approach to the character that makes sense as an actor.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Different
  • Character
  • Woman

• Chi non esce dal suo paese, vive pieno di pregiudizi.

  

  Carlo Goldoni

• The deadliest Pharisaism today is not hypocrisy, but unconscious unreality.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Today
  • Hypocrisy
  • Deadliest

• Let me put it in a positive light, with that archive [of Anne Romaine], we have gained extensive knowledge about how [Alex] Haley and Malcolm X actually worked and how the book, the autobiography, was constructed.

  

  Manning Marable
  • Book
  • Knowledge
  • Light

• It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the 'dear deceit' of beauty.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Moral
  • Eye
  • Beauty

• And that wreched creature without hands or feet, who had to be put to bed and fed like a child, that pitiable remnant of a man, whose almost vanished life was nothing more than one scream of pain, cried out in furious indignation: 'What a fool one must be to go and kill oneself!' " - 'Joy of Life

  

  Emile Zola
  • Life
  • Men
  • Children

• Powerful people never educate powerless people in what they need that they can use to take the power away from powerful people; it's too much to expect. If I was in power, I would not educate people in how to take my powers away.

  

  Dr. John
  • People
  • Power
  • Powerful

• US is a very religious country. Separation of church and state is part of our credo, but that it is hard to understand since our money says "In God we trust" and every President says "God bless America".

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • God
  • Country
  • Money

• Seek truth while you are young, for if you do not, it will later escape your grasp.

  

  Plato
  • Truth
  • Escape
  • Seek

• I would far rather that Hinduism died than that untouchability lived.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Died
  • Lived
  • Hinduism

• What is gained by violence must be lost before superior violence.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Violence
  • Gained

• The city is being destroyed by thugs who in a very senseless way are trying to tear down what so many have fought for, tearing down businesses, tearing down or destroying property, things that we know will impact our community for years.

  

  Stephanie Rawlings-Blake
  • Trying
  • Community
  • Tears

• My life isn’t theories and formulae. It’s part instinct, part common sense. Logic is as good a word as any, and I’ve absorbed what logic I have from everything and everyone… from my mother, from training as a ballet dancer, from Vogue magazine, from the laws of life and health and nature.

  

  Audrey Hepburn
  • Mother
  • Instinct
  • Ballet Dancer

• I'll see what kind of feedback I get, but after the first two plays of contact, I forgot about it. It isn't 100 percent completely healed, but it's not bad enough to slow me down. I should be a lot further along in a couple of weeks, come playoff time.

  

  Cedric Benson
  • Come
  • Feedback
  • Further

• Go to the ant, thou sluggard, learn to live, and by her busy ways, reform thy own.

  

  Elizabeth Smart
  • Live
  • Way
  • Busy

• Reform is born of need, not pity.

  

  Rebecca Harding Davis
  • Pity
  • Reform