Celia Imrie (Celia Diana Savile Imrie) Quotes

Anorexia is an awful thing, but you get yourself into it, and only you can get yourself out of it.

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• It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • May
  • Justice
  • Humanity

• A tune's like a staircase - walk up on it.

  

  Ma Rainey
  • Up
  • Like
  • Tunes

• Somebody's going to get a real opportunity to play for us. There still may be a solid guy there (in free agency now or after the June 1 cuts) that we feel like might come up, but that's something everybody is concerned about.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Up
  • Real
  • May

• We are all mediums for our own basic truths. All we really have in life is the primal force that moves us through our days – our unvarnished, untutored, ever-present, inborn agency.

  

  A.S.A. Harrison
  • Life
  • Moving
  • Present

• Life is the path you beat while you walk it It's the walking that beats the path It is not the path that makes the walk.

  

  Antonio Machado
  • Life
  • Path
  • Walking

• I'm sure I can make a movie that doesn't feel like a seventies movie! But the truth is, that's my favorite era in American filmmaking. To me, those were the great years.

  

  Ben Affleck
  • Great
  • Truth
  • American

• Our history is responsible for the differences in the South African way of life.

  

  P. W. Botha
  • Life
  • History
  • Way

• We know that to wage a nuclear war today, for example, would be a form of suicide; or that to pollute the air or the oceans in order to achieve some short-term benefit would be to destroy the very basis for our survival.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • War
  • Today
  • Air

• Whenever a woman would come too close, I would cut her off. Part of that was vindictive - but that was totally subconscious.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Cutting
  • Subconscious
  • Vindictive

• Compelled to become instruments of war, to kill and be killed, child soldiers are forced to give violent expression to the hatreds of adults

  

  Olara Otunnu
  • Children
  • War
  • Hate

• But the voice goes on, calling us, beckoning us, luring us to think that there might be such a thing as justice, as the world being put to rights, even though we find it so elusive. We're like moths trying to fly to the moon. We all know there's something called justice, but we can't quite get to it.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • World
  • Trying
  • Justice

• Whoever controls the education of our children controls the future.

  

  Wilma Mankiller
  • Children

• History is only a tiresome repetition of one story. Persons and classes have sought to win possession of the power of the State in order to live luxuriously out of the earnings of others

  

  William Graham Sumner
  • Winning
  • Class
  • Possession

• Error is multiform, whereas success is possible in one way only; so this is another reason why excess and deficiency are a mark of vice, and observance of the mean a mark of virtue: Goodness is simple, badness is manifold.

  

  Aristotle
  • Success
  • Virtue
  • Goodness

• Ive read an awful lot of books, Ive read alot of awful books

  

  Michael Caine
  • Book
  • Awful

• It's morning when I go to sleep In the distant dawn a church bell rings Another day is coming on A baby's born, an old man dies Somewhere young lovers kiss good-bye I leave my soul and just move on And wish that I was there to sing this song

  

  Jon Bon Jovi
  • Good
  • Soul
  • Song

• These days I am a teetotal, mean-spirited, right-wing, narrow-minded, conservative Christian bigot, but not a racist.

  

  Jane Russell
  • Christian
  • Racist
  • Bigot

• I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go.

  

  Naomi Scott
  • Home
  • Community
  • Always

• Anorexia is an awful thing, but you get yourself into it, and only you can get yourself out of it.

  

  Celia Imrie
  • Awful
  • Anorexia