D. H. Lawrence Quotes

Sex and a cocktail: they both lasted about as long, had the same effect, and amounted to about the same thing.

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• Learning in a face-to-face human community, as humans have evolved to do over hundreds of thousands of years, may always be the ideal - especially in an endeavor that is as relationship-driven as business.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • May
  • Business
  • Community

• Most people get excited about games, but I've got to be excited about practice, because that's my classroom.

  

  Pat Summitt
  • People
  • Practice
  • Most

• Sometimes your parents are the ones with the biggest mouths of all time.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Time
  • Parents
  • Sometimes

• Women with minimal access to resources and no access to child care have limited choices that too often mean low-wage and part-time labor. In rural communities in the developing world, when women farmers have unequal access to fertilizers or training, their farm productivity lags behind men.

  

  Lael Brainard
  • Time
  • World
  • Men

• Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Man
  • Me
  • Him

• Financial analysts make a lot more than accountants.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Financial
  • More
  • Accountants

• Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.

  

  Pancho Villa
  • Like
  • End
  • Said

• How do you create chemistry? If only I knew that! Some people say it's a natural thing that you have with someone, and maybe it is to do with that, but I think you can work on it.

  

  Karen Gillan
  • People
  • Work
  • Think

• Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • People
  • Loving
  • Preaching

• I think I'm bad luck for Tiger because he missed the cut in Charlotte with me. But yeah, those are two of the best players of all time. Tiger's the best player of all time in my opinion, so when he's not in the field, it's a relief because he's such a great player.

  

  Webb Simpson
  • Time
  • Great
  • Bad

• The two championship contenders, Dario Franchitti and Will Power, are starting right next to each other in the middle of the grid. Honestly, if I can be fast enough early in the race to be able to get up there and latch onto those two, it will be pure entertainment. It's going to be a pack race, and you never know how that's going to turn out.

  

  Dan Wheldon
  • Up
  • Power
  • Know

• The Passion narratives are the first pieces of the Gospels that were composed as a unity.

  

  Hans Urs von Balthasar
  • Passion
  • First
  • Unity

• All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Love
  • Happiness
  • For Her

• But whether a couple is a man and a woman has everything to do with the meaning of marriage.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • Man
  • Marriage
  • Woman

• I was pregnant, and, like, 'Being a mom's going to be easy!' And now I'm like, 'Great.'

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Great
  • Mom
  • Easy

• There is an honourable tradition in British public life that those charged with authority at the top of an organisation should accept responsibility for what happens in that organisation. I am therefore writing to the prime minister today to tender my resignation as chairman of the BBC.

  

  Gavyn Davies
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Today

• I'm of the Samuel Goldwyn school of writing: If you need to send a message, call Western Union. Any messages people take away from my books are the ones they see in them.

  

  Tamora Pierce
  • People
  • Writing
  • School

• Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.

  

  Sallust
  • Yourself
  • Possible
  • Talk

• It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Live
  • Leave
  • Him

• We associate stress with action, but how can you take action without stress? You take the right actions with a different energy. Yes, that might affect the speed at which you work or how much you get done in one day, but you'll probably get things done more efficiently.

  

  Gabrielle Bernstein
  • Work
  • Different
  • Done

• I would direct TV. That's a little different. It's more of a contained world as a director. When you're doing a film you get on the rollercoaster, you put the safety bar down and then you're gone. And it's hard. It's hard, too, as a parent, I think, because the hours are so long. It's hard.

  

  Cheryl Hines
  • World
  • Different
  • Long

• As long as there are only 3 to 4 people on the floor, the country is in good hands. It's only when you have 50 to 60 in the Senate that you want to be concerned.

  

  Bob Dole
  • People
  • Good
  • Long

• Back in the '80s, I was known for being reclusive, often shying away from media attention.

  

  Rick Astley
  • Attention
  • Media
  • '80s

• Sex and a cocktail: they both lasted about as long, had the same effect, and amounted to about the same thing.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Long
  • Sex