Bess Streeter Aldrich Quotes
Aunt Grace was leaving.... Looking after her a moment, Laura had another feeling of tenderness toward her. How we live our lives side by side with those whom we never know or understand.Bess Streeter Aldrich
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If you are attempting to study American history, and you don't understand the force of white supremacy, you fundamentally misunderstand America.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.
V. S. Naipaul -
The kitchen is where we deal with the elements of the universe. It is where we come to understand our past and ourselves.
Laura Esquivel -
It's hard for us to really understand the immensity so far of the conquest of space.
Walter Cronkite -
Most people don't understand that being in the public eye is emotionally exhausting. It takes a lot out of you.
Tabitha King -
I decided that Europeans and Americans are like men and women: they understand each other worse, and it matters less, than either of them suppose.
Randall Jarrell
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I don't understand anything about America's culture.
P. J. O'Rourke -
It's no use of talking unless people understand what you say.
Zora Neale Hurston -
When you are suffering, you become more understanding about yourself, but also about other people's sufferings too. That's the first step to understand somebody is to understand their sufferings. So then love follows.
Yoko Ono -
Perhaps if all the peoples of the world understand what war really means, we would eliminate it.
Walter Cronkite -
What drives that desire to destroy Paris Hilton? What drives that desire to venerate Angelina Jolie? I do understand it, but it still baffles me. It baffles me when people treat me specially and differently, because I just want to look at them and go, 'What are you talking about? I'm just a person.'
Zach Galligan -
It's difficult to make your clients understand that there are certain days that the market will go up or down 2%, and it's basically driven by algorithms talking to algorithms. There's no real rhyme or reason for that. So it's difficult. We just try to preach long-term investing and staying the course.
Warren Stephens
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You just need to put yourself in someone else's shoes and then see how they feel and then you will understand why they are reacting or why they are behaving the way that they are behaving. We need to be fair.
Navid Negahban -
Guys understand a waistline. They understand a silhouette.
L'Wren Scott -
There's no such thing as a healthy tan, and that's what people need to understand.
Gabrielle Union -
I want the world to understand that a Palestinian state means no Israeli state. That's the equation.
Naftali Bennett -
I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.
Baruch Spinoza -
Treat the world like a failed state; then you can understand the players needed to fix it.
Cameron Sinclair
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The American fans would love to see me fight anybody.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. -
Problems are challenges to creative minds. Without problems, there would be little reason to think at all.
Earl Nightingale -
My generation of bossy, confident, baby-boom women were something brand new in history. Our energy and assertiveness weren't created by Betty Friedan, unknown before her 1963 book, or by Gloria Steinem, whose political activism, as even the Lifetime profile admitted, did not begin until 1969.
Camille Paglia -
You used to be able to just call people. You didn't have to be on someone's calendar to have a phone conversation. The telephone was an important and valuable domain of communication, both for casual, friendly chats and for professional exchanges of ideas and information. But no more.
Dan Pallotta -
For the span of my memory, this has been a city of opposing wills.
Mari Evans -
Aunt Grace was leaving.... Looking after her a moment, Laura had another feeling of tenderness toward her. How we live our lives side by side with those whom we never know or understand.
Bess Streeter Aldrich