Catherine Helen Spence Quotes

There is nothing so costly to the state as a ruined life

Catherine Helen Spence

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• I went to a woman for advice about how to be in business, but I learned a great deal from men.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Great
  • Men
  • Business

• I have selective hearing.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Hearing
  • Selective

• All the evidence shows very clearly that if you are a member of a trade union you are likely to get better pay, more equal pay, better health and safety, more chance to get training, more chance to have conditions of work that help if you have caring responsibilities... the list goes on!

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • Work
  • Help
  • Health

• If I'd had the chance, I'd like to have completed my degree before going full-time, and sports journalism was something that always interested me. Dad used to buy a paper, and I always turned straight to the sports pages.

  

  Rajiv Ouseph
  • Time
  • Dad
  • Sports

• Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.

  

  Vance Packard
  • Done
  • Art
  • Want

• I don't need a piece of paper to suggest that I can commit myself.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Myself
  • Need
  • Paper

• Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Enthusiasm
  • Common Sense

• If you look at history, at the first time hip-hop was invented, there was a Latino right there. How they got erased, I don't know how that all came about.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Time
  • History
  • Look

• There are plenty of good Indian writers in English, and none of us feel we are carrying the burden of being a poster boy.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Good
  • English
  • Boy

• I simply love writing good stories, that's my passion.

  

  Kate Morton
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Love

• There are apparently three factors that lead to longevity: heredity, habits, and what your wife will let you get away with.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Wife
  • Lead
  • Habits

• In time truth and science and nature will adapt themselves to art. Things will happen logically, and the villain be discomfited instead of being elected to the board of directors. But in the meantime fiction must not only be divorced from fact, but must pay alimony and be awarded custody of the press despatches.

  

  O. Henry
  • Time
  • Art
  • Truth

• The real Edie is where the action is. Fast cars, fast horses, and people doing things!

  

  Edie Sedgwick
  • People
  • Real
  • Action

• Like any bully, Putin only picks fights that he is sure he can win. History tells us that sooner or later, he will become so overconfident, so accustomed to his opponents folding their cards against his weak hand, that he will overstep, potentially resulting in a catastrophe on a global scale.

  Garry Kasparov
  • History
  • Hand

• I've tried several varieties of sex, all of which I hate. The conventional position makes me claustrophobic; the others give me a stiff neck and/or lockjaw.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Hate
  • Sex

• Who love my man, I'm a liar if I say I don't But I'll quit my man, I'm a liar if I say I wont.

  

  Eleanora Fagan
  • Liar

• As for the Soothsayer, although I am certain no one feels the true beauties of that work better than I, I am far from finding these beauties in the same places as the infatuated public does. They are not the products of study and knowledge, but rather are inspired by taste and sensitivity.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Work
  • True
  • Knowledge

• If you're trying to get someone who's sick with a fever off of a submarine and it's cold and raining outside, the only way in and out of a submarine, generally, is through a fairly narrow hatch.

  

  Laurel Clark
  • Trying
  • Cold
  • Sick

• Friends are sometimes boring, but enemies never.

  

  Mason Cooley
  • Friends

• I was so lost back then,But with a little help from my friendsI found a light in the tunnel at the end.Now you're calling me up on the phone,So you can have a little whine and a moan.And it's only because you're feeling alone.

  

  Lily Allen
  • Up
  • Help
  • Feeling

• When I make a film I'm away from home for two to three months. So I want my kids to look at my films one day and say, I love his movies, I love his choices-because he loved them.

  

  Kevin Costner
  • Home
  • Kids
  • Choices

• For me, it's not about price. It's about necessity, quality, and usefulness. Like, I have my Wet N Wild 666 lip liner. It's 99 cents and always has been. I started using it when I was in high school, and it's great.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Quality
  • Price
  • Necessity

• He Quoyle did not want a boat, shied from the thought of water. Ashamed he could not swim, couldn't learn.

  

  Annie Proulx
  • Water
  • Boat

• There is nothing so costly to the state as a ruined life

  

  Catherine Helen Spence
  • Wisdom
  • Australia
  • Ruined