Blanche Willis Howard Quotes
How often I longed to lovingly administer release! ... to have the courage and the right, after the soul is fled, to stop the poor wretched machine, that exists only to suffer and cause suffering.
Quotes to Explore
-
What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?
-
Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron.
-
I need to start honing in on projects that I want to devote my time to and not put my energies into the unattainable ones.
-
I couldn't believe I was working with Michael Jackson. I thought, growing up as a kid, I thought Michael was a cartoon.
-
Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.
-
What we did not imagine was a Web of people, but a Web of documents.
-
My red patent-leather, 5-inch peep-toe slingbacks are not mere shoes. They are fine art. They make me feel tall. They make me feel sexy. They make me feel powerful. I call them my 'special-day shoes.'
-
My style will be management by being on the street, management by walking around. Third persons won't have to tell me what's going on in our city. I'll hear it, I'll see it, I'll touch it myself.
-
Pubescent girls, it seems, are manifestly more likely to exhibit extreme and bizarre psychological symptoms than are teenage boys.
-
I think that taking ballet is one of the best things a girl can do. Period.
-
I am excited about this. We've got half of our goal. I'd love to see us get a little bit more than half our goal and not be so deeply into this thing going into Sunday, but I feel good about everything.
-
I awake with a not entirely sickened knowledge that I am merely young again and in a funny way at peace, an observer who is aware of time's chariot, aware that some metamorphosis has occurred.
-
Shastriji had digested the message of the Gita. Some of us have memorised it in full and spout couplets from it at will. But I learnt of what it meant for someone to have actually digested it from Shastriji.
-
Auch das gesteigertste psychologische Verstehen ist kein liebendes Verstehen.
-
We need not only open trading systems, but systems that work for people around the world - taking into account not only the bottom line, but the well-being of working men and women, the protection of children against sweatshop labor, and the protection of the environment.
-
But I think it's intoxicating when somebody is so unapologetically who they are.
-
I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.
-
Every band I've worked with also wants to be countercultural in the sense that they want to feel that they've gone somewhere that nobody else has been.
-
What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.
-
It's very hard to turn writers against each other, believe it or not.
-
Things can go away just like that. You got to be always respectful and nice and positive.
-
Soul is a colourless thing. I don't think you have to be a black person to be automatically soulful. I respect Justin Bieber and Justin Timberlake; they do what they do. For me, my philosophy has always been 'contribution before competition.'
-
Adolescence is when the very worst and best impulses in the human soul struggle against each other for possession.
-
How often I longed to lovingly administer release! ... to have the courage and the right, after the soul is fled, to stop the poor wretched machine, that exists only to suffer and cause suffering.
