Celia Rees Quotes

It is no good wishing for what was not to be.

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• Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Future
  • Past
  • Wisdom

• People shouldn't have to spend a lot of money to get high-quality clothing.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • People
  • Money
  • High

• I love 'Chaplin'; I mean I really love 'Chaplin.' I just think there's a grace and an elegance that's almost never been matched.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Think
  • Grace
  • Elegance

• If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death, human life cannot be complete.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Life
  • Death
  • Suffering

• I wrote about wasting time, which I suppose is a part of the great human journey. We're supposed to wallow, to go through the desert without water for a long time so that when we finally drink it, we'll truly need it and we won't spill a drop. It's about being present.

  

  Walton Goggins
  • Time
  • Great
  • Long

• There's a lot of things I want to do. I want to learn Italian. I want to learn to play tennis better. I want to motivate the world, basically.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • World
  • Learn
  • Better

• Proteins are constantly being degraded. Therefore, simultaneous production of proteins is required.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • Being
  • Production
  • Proteins

• I travel around the world constantly promoting my projects and endorsing products. Yes, I do get paid to go to parties; in fact, I'm the person who started the whole trend of paid appearances. But when you see me at a party, I'm always working or promoting something.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • World
  • Person
  • Travel

• At one point, when I was 20 and living in Kentucky, I got shot - it was a land dispute over six inches of property that ran a hundred yards through my grandfather's land. It was really over the honor of my family and that of another family.

  

  Jack Bowman
  • Family
  • Honor
  • Grandfather

• Today is a big step in our march toward equality. Gay and lesbian couples now have the right to marry, just like anyone else. #LoveWins.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Today
  • Gay
  • Equality

• The very things I might have given in to, that demanded, that said, this is your life. I mean, this is your only way to survive, are the things I fought hardest to end. 'Cause I believed in something else. And um, what makes that sane is that I can understand other people's situations in their own terms, but I still can't understand mine.

  

  Edie Sedgwick
  • People
  • Life

• 'It must be nice to think there is a true reality,' says Miss Callendar. 'I've always found reality a matter of great debate.'

  

  Malcolm Bradbury
  • Great
  • True
  • Reality

• The proposition, that the people are the best keepers of their own liberties, is not true; they are the worst conceivable; they are no keepers at all; they can neither judge, act, think, or will, as a political body.

  

  John Adams
  • People
  • True
  • Political

• Blue Moon,You saw me standing alone,Without a dream in my heart,Without a love of my own.

  

  Lorenz Hart
  • Heart
  • Dream
  • Alone

• Besides agreeing with the aims of vegetarianism for aesthetic and moral reasons, it is my view that a vegetarian manner of living by its purely physical effect on the human temperament would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Influence
  • Reasons
  • Effect

• Unless we are free from fear we will not be able to give our children the kind of future that we would like them to have.

  

  Aung San Suu Kyi
  • Children
  • Future
  • Free

• When you're married to someone famous, people know you, but they're not really seeing you.

  

  Patti Scialfa
  • People
  • Famous

• I feel like I'm a character already, as in, like, I love dressing up.

  

  Rita Ora
  • Up
  • Character

• Being a journalist, you write what you see. If we can't do that, what use are we? I turned years of training on myself.

  

  Katie Hafner
  • Training

• But what Web services suggest is that the connection is always there between an application that is resident somewhere in the cloud, and a user who is somewhere on the other end of a connection.

  

  John W. Thompson
  • Connection

• Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true. The cure for this is first to show that religion is not contrary to reason, but worthy of reverence and respect. Next make it attractive, make good men wish it were true and then show that it is.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Hate
  • Respect
  • Wish

• Let them say what they wish behind your back. You need only be strong enough that they don't say it to your face.

  

  Courtney Milan
  • Strong
  • Wish
  • Say

• The best kind of comedy to me is when you make people laugh at things they've never laughed at, and also take a light into the darkened corners of people's minds, exposing them to the light.

  

  Bill Hicks
  • People
  • Light
  • Comedy

• It is no good wishing for what was not to be.

  

  Celia Rees
  • Wish