Bess Streeter Aldrich Quotes

If the faith of all the mothers could blossom to its full fruition, there would be no unsuccessful men in the land.

Bess Streeter Aldrich

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• To me, there's no point in writing merely to entertain.

  

  Bebe Moore Campbell
  • Writing
  • Point
  • Entertain

• Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Children
  • Fun
  • Easy

• I think the writing skills of actors are sometimes underestimated.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Writing
  • Think
  • Skills

• I learned that the first technology appeared in the form of stone tools, 2.6 million years ago. First entertainment comes evidence from flutes that are 35,000 years old. And evidence for first design comes 75,000 years old - beads. And you can do the same with your genes and track them back in time.

  

  Zeresenay Alemseged
  • Time
  • Technology
  • Design

• Put a love note in his shaving kit before he leaves on a business trip.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Love
  • Business
  • Shaving

• The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Mind
  • Sorrow
  • Sympathy

• Everyone wants to belong, and everyone needs to belong in order to make a career on some level.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Career
  • Everyone
  • Belong

• The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Wisdom
  • Wise
  • Fool

• When discussing things with someone, it is best to speak appropriately about whatever the subject may be. No matter how good what you are saying might be, it will dampen the conversation if it is irrelevant.

  

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo
  • Good
  • May

• Might the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy be laid to heart! Might a sense of the true aims of life elevate the tone of politics and trade, till public and private honor become identical!

  

  Margaret Fuller
  • Life
  • Heart
  • True

• How commentators each dark passage shun,And hold their farthing candle to the sun.

  

  Edward Young
  • Dark
  • Sun

• The reason that I call my doctrine logical atomism is because the atoms that I wish to arrive at as the sort of last residue in analysis are logical atoms and not physical atoms. Some of them will be what I call 'particulars' – such things as little patches of color or sounds, momentary things – and some of them will be predicates or relations and so on.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Wish
  • Color

• ’Twas on a sunny summer dayI trod a mighty city’s street,And when I started on my wayMy heart was full of fancies sweet;But soon, as nothing could be seen,But countenances sharp and keen,Nought heard or seen around but toldOf something bought or something sold,And none that seemed to think or careThat any save himself was there.

  

  Arthur Hugh Clough
  • Heart
  • City
  • Sweet

• Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes!

  

  Benjamin Franklin
  • World
  • Death

• I haven't made a movie for a while, but I've watched a lot. It's my major waste of time. I like to work, but also to be waiting for work.

  

  Bernardo Bertolucci
  • Time
  • Work
  • Movie

• As an artist, you need to be not at all entitled in your relation with the work. So money is kind of worrying. You can start to expect things if you're used to a certain level of comfort.

  

  Eleanor Catton
  • Work
  • Money

• I know what it takes to get to the top.

  

  Linford Christie

• I've got 'trust' tattooed on me, and I have a tattoo on my finger that's for my parents.

  

  Anne-Marie
  • Parents
  • Trust
  • Tattoo

• I've always loved Louisiana and particularly New Orleans, and I think a lot of people when they travel there, think they're home there - there are just so many spirits, it's so rich in culture. It's steeped in a true spirit of individuality that makes this country. It's the oldest part of our story, in a way. And being in that climate, it was really conducive to letting our imaginations soar. I found it to be the true inspiration.

  

  Scarlett Johansson
  • Culture
  • Travel
  • Spirit

• But the issue has to do with land, which is our land.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • Land
  • Issue
  • Which

• Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Faith

• I have a lot of faith in our showrunners.

  

  John Landgraf
  • Faith

• I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find till after death; I must never let it get snowed under or turned aside; I must make it the main object of life to press on to that other country and to help others to do the same.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Life
  • Country
  • True

• If the faith of all the mothers could blossom to its full fruition, there would be no unsuccessful men in the land.

  

  Bess Streeter Aldrich
  • Faith
  • Land
  • Blossom