Edith Wharton Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
If my love is without sacrifice, it is selfish. Such a love is barter, for there is exchange of love and devotion in return for something. It is conditional love.
-
I'm, I guess you could say, the Chinese-speaking, banjo-picking girl.
-
Whether you listen to a piece of music, or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug, or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own.
-
Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.
-
Stereotypes lose their power when the world is found to be more complex than the stereotype would suggest. When we learn that individuals do not fit the group stereotype, then it begins to fall apart.
-
When you write, you don't have the social constraints of having people in front of you, so you talk about abstract matters.
-
Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
-
To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.
-
The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.
-
When I make a film, I am hoping to reinvent the genre a little bit. I just do it my way. I make my own little Quentin versions of them... I consider myself a student of cinema. It's almost like I am going for my professorship in cinema, and the day I die is the day I graduate. It is a lifelong study.
-
One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
-
When you give a lot of confidence in people and you don't get it back, you are a bit disappointed, but it's life.
-
An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old.
-
We need to change America's image round the world. America has lost some lustre in terms of how folks aspire to be like us.
-
Musical theater is one of my passions.
-
I longed to be bright and most certainly never was. I was rather hopeless, I suspect.
-
Bolivar's legacy has always been a part of the Venezuelan/Latin American imagery, especially in the countries that he liberated or he helped to liberate. He's been a very prominent figure.
-
I don't know why, but I respond well to tortured characters.
-
I live in a fantasy world where I think I'm immune to all disease. I don't get sick and haven't had anything major go wrong.
-
Bad men do what good men only dream.
-
Chasing kids on the beach and sleeping is the closest I come to exercising while in Hawaii.
-
The financial crisis and the Great Recession demonstrated, in a dramatic and unmistakable manner, how extraordinarily vulnerable are the large share of American families with very few assets to fall back on. We have come far from the worst moments of the crisis, and the economy continues to improve.
-
The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.
