Edith Wharton Quotes

No insect hangs its nest on threads as frail as those which will sustain the weight of human vanity.

Edith Wharton

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• If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Trouble
  • Sympathy

• Historical science is being left in the dust.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Science
  • Being
  • Dust

• One of the things I do take some pride in is that if you had never read an article about my life, if you knew nothing about me, except that my books were being set in front of you to read, and if you were to read those books in sequence, I don't think you would say to yourself, 'Oh my God, something terrible happened to this writer in 1989.'

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Life
  • God
  • Pride

• I read a lot of comic books and any kind of thing I could find. One day, a teacher found me. She grabbed my comic book and tore it up. I was really upset, but then she brought in a pile of books from her own library. That was the best thing that ever happened to me.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Up
  • She
  • Book

• Every true, eternal problem is an equally true, eternal fault; every answer an atonement, every realisation an improvement.

  

  Otto Weininger
  • True
  • Problem
  • Improvement

• If I am judged for my work, many myths about me as an autocrat or otherwise would become clearer. I feel false propaganda will not last, and truth will ultimately prevail.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Work
  • Truth
  • Propaganda

• My father was a misanthrope who slept all day and stayed up all night so that he wouldn't have to see people. He ran a business with a large staff but would go there at night and leave things for them to do during the day when he wasn't there.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • Up
  • Business

• I'm thrilled I can make a living doing something I enjoy.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Enjoy
  • Doing
  • Living

• Among physicists and chemists, cold fusion - nuclear fusion at close to room temperature - enjoys a reputation about on par with creationism.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Cold
  • Reputation
  • Room

• I was so passionate about wanting the role in 'Like Crazy,' I filmed myself in the shower because that's where one of the scenes was set. It just felt instinctive. It was a close up! It would have been strange if I'd sent off a wide shot of myself. That's not the kind of work I want to do!

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Up
  • Work
  • Crazy

• What I'm trying to do is put back into rap music what's missing - which is the good part, the fun part, that party part.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Good
  • Music
  • Trying

• I think that the idea of a war on an abstract noun is unacceptable.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • War
  • Think
  • Idea

• Hollywood typecast me as the secretary. I could have worked as the quirky secretary for the rest of my life, but I decided not to do that.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Life
  • Rest
  • Hollywood

• The beginning of the shows are different. One time we'll say 'Hello, Denver'. Another time we'll say 'Hello, Memphis'. It's always different.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Time
  • Different
  • Always

• Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • People
  • Surround Yourself

• I have always felt strongly about empowering women. I'm living proof that, with confidence and by believing in yourself, you can accomplish any goal.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Women
  • Confidence
  • Yourself

• When I write, I don't have any expectation of what kind of song it will become or who it might reach.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • Song
  • Kind
  • Expectation

• I think the audience for Limp Bizkit is probably not going to be particularly interested in what we're doing. I don't think they'll find much that satisfies them in what we do.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Think
  • Doing
  • Find

• To save the world requires faith and courage: faith in reason, and courage to proclaim what reason shows to be true.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • World
  • True
  • Faith

• O welcome pure-eyed Faith, white handed Hope, Thou hovering angel girt with golden wings.

  

  John Milton
  • Hope
  • Faith
  • Pure-eyed

• Some things definitely work better on film than in books. Introspection is great in books but it doesn't work on film. Anything with high intensity, whether it's a love scene, a car chase, a fight scene - those things work so well on film and oftentimes they can tell a much broader part of the story.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Film
  • Books

• Suppose one who had always continued blind be told by his guide that after he has advanced so many steps he shall come to the brink of a precipice, or be stopped by a wall; must not this to him seem very admirable and surprising? He cannot conceive how it is possible for mortals to frame such predictions as these, which to him would seem as strange and unaccountable as prophesy doth to others. Even they who are blessed with the visive faculty may (though familiarity make it less observed) find therein sufficient cause of admiration.

  

  David Berman
  • Knowledge
  • Blessed
  • Strange

• My work is very popular with performers, and there are theatre people who get what I'm doing and what tradition I'm working in. I'm very grateful to them - they're my people, who understand why I work the way I do.

  

  Jason Robert Brown
  • People
  • Work
  • Why

• No insect hangs its nest on threads as frail as those which will sustain the weight of human vanity.

  

  Edith Wharton