Bette Lord Quotes

Remember that we are not gods who can fashion events to our desires. We are mere mortals who must learn not to contend with life but to yield to it.

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• Let's judge a man on what he's done.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Done
  • Man
  • Judge

• In our culture, the shame about accidental pregnancy is inextricable from the shame about having had sex. That disapproval of sex is one reason our record with contraception is so poor. If you're not supposed to be sexual, you don't plan for sex. You cross your fingers and hope for the best.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Hope
  • Culture
  • Best

• 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. Those are all conservative values - faith, family, hard work, responsibility.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Life
  • Work
  • Family

• I was a go-go dancer at the Dom on East 10th Street in NYC. This was a glittering ballroom over Stanley's Bar. 1965.

  

  Fanny Howe
  • Street
  • Over
  • Bar

• I can't speak for other people, but for me, I feel like gone are the days that you need to come out of a closet. I never felt like I was in a closet. I never did. I always felt comfortable with who I am and the decisions I made.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Decisions
  • Comfortable
  • Closet

• I don't know that I would want to be married again, but I do love companionship.

  

  Florence Henderson
  • Love
  • Want
  • Know

• I love a mask. It's why I've got a thing about good writing. When you're acting, you're going into someone else's work. You're behind his words; it's not you.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Good
  • Work
  • Writing

• I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Hope
  • Black
  • See

• My favorite sport, frankly, is college football. I'm a college football junkie, even though I'm associated with golf and like golf and have played it all my life.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Life
  • College
  • Football

• We are a party of innovation. We do not reject our traditions, but we are willing to adapt to changing circumstances, when change we must. We are willing to suffer the discomfort of change in order to achieve a better future.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • Future
  • Change
  • Party

• We all have very personal relationships to what happened on 9/11 and the events after tracking Osama bin Laden. Nobody can escape from the influence of that.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Influence
  • Events
  • Escape

• I think we are realizing that we are going to have to have an international rule of law.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Think
  • Law
  • Rule Of Law

• Any form of media is an opportunity to be a mirror and reflection of what we are experiencing more in the details of our life. What makes it fun and unique in a lot of ways is how that journey is changing just by the mere fact of the current time.

  

  Mara Brock Akil
  • Life
  • Time
  • Fun

• A democracy, the realistic observer is forced to conclude, is likely to be idealistic in its feelings about itself, but imperialistic about its practice.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Democracy
  • Practice
  • Forced

• 'If you want someone to be ignored, then build a life-size bronze statue of them and stick it in the middle of town...'

  

  Banksy
  • Life

• Huir el rostro al claro desengaño,beber veneno por licor süave,olvidar el provecho, amar el daño;creer que un cielo en un infierno cabe,dar la vida y el alma a un desengaño;esto es amor. Quien lo probó lo sabe.

  

  Lope de Vega

• If we refuse to accept as inevitable the irresponsibility and educational unconcern of the adolescent culture, then this poses a serious challenge.

  

  James S. Coleman
  • Culture
  • Challenge
  • Serious

• I think, at the end of the day, we're Americans: that's what we are, and we believe in America.

  

  David Bryan Bon Jovi
  • Believe
  • America

• You've never seen anything until you've seen David Mamet be an Edwardian lady. He always conveys what he means, but he's so... masculine.

  

  Mary Steenburgen

• Of course, your voice always sounds better in the shower for some reason, maybe it's just the octaves or, I don't know, the water, I have no idea.

  

  David Boreanaz
  • Water

• The friends we have, these are choices that - unlike family, which we have no choice in, and I love my family, thank God - we've given ourselves, to some degree.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • God
  • Family
  • Love

• My personality is based on an anonymity and failure. Failure and anonymity, those are my strengths - superiority from below.

  

  James Murphy
  • Failure
  • Personality

• As usual, Martin Luther King Day was inspirational and it once again brought us together as a community. What is more important is what we do every day after we leave this celebration and thankfully, we've been successful in meeting challenges that have come before and we will continue to do so.

  

  Jonathan Harris
  • Challenges
  • Continue
  • Meeting

• Remember that we are not gods who can fashion events to our desires. We are mere mortals who must learn not to contend with life but to yield to it.

  

  Bette Lord
  • Remember
  • Fashion
  • Gods