Bess Streeter Aldrich Quotes

You could not stop the winds and you could not stop Time. It went on and on,-and on.

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• Life's not fair, is it? Some of us drink champagne in the fast lane, and some of us eat our sandwiches by the loose chippings on the A597.

  

  Victoria Wood
  • Life
  • Fast
  • Champagne

• Rarely do we stop and consider whether the most prestigious of institutions is always in our best interest.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Stop
  • Best
  • Always

• I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.

  

  Faith Ford
  • Think
  • Comedy
  • Things

• I like pencil skirts because they hug me in all the right places.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Right
  • Places
  • Hug Me

• Menon the Thessalian did not either conceal his immoderate desire of riches or his desire of commanding, in order to increase them, or of being esteemed for the same reason. He desired to be well with those in power, that his injustice might escape punishment.

  

  Xenophon
  • Power
  • Desire
  • Escape

• I learned about the market's power when I was traded to the Buffalo Bills for $100.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Power
  • Learned
  • Market

• Sometimes a woman's looks or sensuality are too readily wrapped up in their power.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Up
  • Power
  • Sometimes

• Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Better
  • Red
  • Argument

• I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about what happened yesterday.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Live
  • Present
  • Yesterday

• The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Spring
  • Landscape
  • Awakening

• My parents were perfectly open-minded about everything. They never tried to convince us of what was true or what wasn't true in their minds. We were just presented with the information that was around and pretty much allowed - though, I mean, we knew how they felt. We knew they didn't go to church. So obviously that had an effect.

  

  Tad Williams
  • True
  • Pretty
  • Parents

• Yeah, I'm very impressed with Lifetime, this is the first time I've worked with them. I really like the kind of programming that they're into, so I'm hoping that I will.

  

  Beau Bridges
  • Time
  • First
  • Programming

• I am happy in Paris.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Happy
  • Paris

• One of the things we tell ourselves as African-Americans is if we work hard, play by the rules, we do start back a little ways, but if we can be twice as good, somehow we can escape history and heritage and legacy.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Good
  • Work
  • History

• I'm coming to this world not to work. I want to come to this world to enjoy my life. I don't want to die in my office. I want to die on the beaches.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Life
  • World
  • Work

• As far as songwriting, my inspirations came from love, life and death, and viewing other people's situations.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • People
  • Life
  • Death

• A friend of mine, a Hispanic entrepreneur asked me a question sometime ago, he said, 'When is the last time you saw a Hispanic panhandler?' I think it's a great question. I'll tell you, in my life I've never once have seen a Hispanic panhandler, because in our community, it would be viewed as shameful to be out on the street begging.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Life
  • Time
  • Great

• The anti-New Deal line is wrong as a matter of economics. F.D.R.'s spending programs did help the economy and created millions of new jobs.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Help
  • Economy
  • Economics

• We need to intensify cooperation with civilized governments all over the world to combat the common threat of terrorism.

  

  Al Gore
  • World

• The difference between movies and TV is that in TV you have to have a trauma every week, but that event may not be the biggest event in the characters' lives.

  

  Peter Capaldi
  • May

• Maybe you've decided you're not a genius, that you're not brilliant, that you're not prosperous, that you're not wonderful, that you're not lovable. Well, you know what? You're both: you're unlovable and you are lovable. And they both need equal time.

  

  Debbie Ford
  • Time

• Incidentally, part of a photographer’s gift should be with people. You can do some wonderful work if you know how to make people understand what you’re doing and feel all right about it, and you can do terrible work if you put them on the defense, which they all are at the beginning. You’ve got to take them off their defensive attitude and make them participate.

  

  Walker Evans
  • People
  • Work
  • Beginning

• When most people ask about a business growing, what they really mean is growing revenue, not just growing the number of people using a service. Traditional businesses would view people using your service that you don't make money from as a cost.

  

  Mark Zuckerberg
  • People
  • Money
  • Business

• You could not stop the winds and you could not stop Time. It went on and on,-and on.

  

  Bess Streeter Aldrich
  • Time
  • Winds