Dame Cicily Isabel Fairfield DBE (Rebecca West) Quotes

Whatever happens, never forget that people would rather be led to perdition by a man, than to victory by a woman.

Dame Cicily Isabel Fairfield DBE

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• Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.

  

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• I love road trips! My husband and I love that. We bought a truck with a bench seat so we could put the dog in the middle.

  

  Barbra Streisand
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• I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.

  

  Iris DeMent
  • People
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• The most disturbing thing, I think, with people that do very morally devious things more and more often is to see that they completely feel that they had no choice in the matter.

  

  Tamzin Merchant
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• Gustafsson is a stud, man. He's a good fighter.

  

  Daniel Cormier
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• The greatest benefit of being a solo performer is that it is seriously frightening, but at the same time very empowering. It's just you and the audience. All the weight is on you to deliver the songs.

  

  Zola Jesus
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• It's just difficult to see that people want to be like the actors and the performers and the politicians who are - who they see all the time, but the people that are probably having the most fun are the writers and the directors and the producers and the scientists, right, the people in the back that are getting to do the creative process.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • People
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• It is every intelligent man's experience that evildoing recoils on the doer sooner or later.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Experience
  • Man
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• I heard somewhere that whenever you write a book, people will ask you One Question about it over and over. And while I'm no expert in these matters, this is proving to be true. My first book dealt with a not-that-pleasant degenerate type, and the One Question was, 'Is this an autobiographical story?'

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • People
  • Book
  • True

• Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • Experience
  • Memories
  • More

• What we need is a system of thought - you might even call it a religion - that can bind humans together. A system that would fit the Republic of Chad as well as the United States: a system that would supply our idealistic young people with something to believe in.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • People
  • Believe
  • Together

• My kids are the most inspiring thing that pushes me. It used to be because they were born, and I had to take care of them. Now it's because my son raps, and he's better than me. So now I gotta keep up with him, you know what I'm saying?

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Up
  • Kids
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• Growing up I studied classically and did lots of shows in school.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Up
  • School
  • Growing

• 'Boyz-n-the-Hood' was actually supposed to be written for Eazy's group. He had a group out in New York called Home Boys Only, called HBO. One of them looked like LL Cool J. Eazy wanted to write a song for them, a street song, like what we were doing on the mix tapes. So when I wrote it, it was too West Coast for them.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Home
  • Song
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• The problem with our role is Americans live in a world of illusion.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • World
  • Live
  • Illusion

• When it was my turn, I just skated out and heard this huge cheer. It was very touching considering the bad circumstances under which I had left the team and that I had been away for four years.

  

  Ted Lindsay
  • Bad
  • Team
  • Years

• 'I am of no faith,' said Aenea. 'If one defines faith as belief in the supernatural.'

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Faith
  • Supernatural

• The more you obey your conscience, the more your conscience will demand of you.

  

  C. S. Lewis

• I love being middle-aged in general. I'm more at peace with myself now. I still have tormented times, but they are few and far between. You don't feel you have to be the centre of your world when you get older. Becoming a mother had been a turning point which stopped me from being the centre of my world.

  

  Alison Moyet
  • World
  • Mother
  • Peace

• From the moment I start a new novel, life's just one endless torture. The first few chapters may go fairly well and I may feel there's still a chance to prove my worth, but that feeling soon disappears and every day I feel less and less satisfied.

  

  Emile Zola
  • Life
  • May
  • Feeling

• I'd gone to Wellesley College, an amazing women's college where the students were encouraged to follow our dreams. However, after I graduated and had a historical romance published, more than a few people indicated that, in some way, my career choice was a 'waste' of so much education.

  

  Lisa Kleypas
  • People
  • Women
  • Career

• The romance is essential. I love the love. I don't love just people struggling. I love what people are struggling for. That moves me. I love watching people be loving, and I find it enchanting, magical and transporting. It's one of the reasons that I go to the movies, and that's why I like putting it in movies.

  

  David O. Russell
  • People
  • Why
  • Moving

• We have a political culture of intimidation, of favoring, of patronage, and of fear, and that is no way for a community to be governed.

  

  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
  • Political
  • Culture
  • Fear

• Whatever happens, never forget that people would rather be led to perdition by a man, than to victory by a woman.

  

  Dame Cicily Isabel Fairfield DBE
  • People
  • Happens
  • Would