Wendy Shalit Quotes

Modesty is the proof that morality is sexy.

Wendy Shalit

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• I'm pro-death penalty, but what I have not seen is anybody that would mock someone on death row.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Death
  • Someone
  • Anybody

• That is why, as soon as I felt a real attraction for my first passion which was the motorcycle, and in spite of the danger it could represent, they encouraged me.

  

  Jacky Ickx
  • Passion
  • Danger
  • Attraction

• The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history.

  

  Harold Wilson
  • History
  • Sleep
  • Successful

• Women often come up not knowing how to make decisions. We get wishy-washy. We become great wage earners - breadwinners - but we don't know how to control empires.

  

  Jackee Harry
  • Up
  • Great
  • Women

• All too often the Democratic Party has taken the black vote for granted, and all too often the Republican Party has written it off.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Black
  • Party
  • Taken

• I'm a character actress, plain and simple... Who can worry about a career? Have a life. Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Life
  • Work
  • Character

• I'm not afraid to admit that I'm a relatively slow reader.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Afraid
  • Admit
  • Slow

• On another level, I want to mention that I have a strong Jewish identity and - over the years - have been involved in several Jewish projects, such as the establishment of a strong program of Judaic Studies at the University of California in San Diego.

  

  Walter Kohn
  • Want
  • Strong
  • Identity

• You know, no one steered people's careers in those days, I don't think, like they do today.

  

  Wanda Jackson
  • People
  • Think
  • Today

• We try to write things that work on a variety of levels at the same time: A sleek exterior with a turbulent lyric.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Time
  • Work
  • Same

• People can very quickly have a very poor self-image. It doesn't take much.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • People
  • Poor
  • Very

• When yu' can't have what you choose, yu' just choose what you have.

  

  Owen Wister
  • You
  • Choose
  • Just

• Just because you're born in a privileged family and have money doesn't mean you're happy. Happiness you can't buy. Happiness is something you need to work for.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • Work
  • Family
  • Money

• To be completely honest, it's shocking to me that I keep getting the villain roles! I do not see myself as the villain and I know, growing up, I was the opposite of a villain. I would never try to be a villain to anyone - but maybe other people I grew up with feel differently about that.

  

  Cam Gigandet
  • People
  • Up
  • Growing

• The truth is that I have lived on an even keel. I don't go down, and I don't go up. I believe in living above the line. Above the line is happiness and love, you know. Below the line is all sadness and destruction and unhappiness. And I don't go down below the line for anything.

  

  Agnes Martin
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Truth

• In all my work, I try to say - 'You may be given a load of sour lemons, why not try to make a dozen lemon meringue pies?'

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Work
  • Say
  • Lemons

• The character as well as the fortunes of the gospel is committed to the preacher. He makes or mars the message from God to man. The preacher is the golden pipe through which the divine oil flows.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • God
  • Character
  • Gospel

• Can you nominate in order now the degrees of the lie? I will name you the degrees. The first, the Retort Courteous; the second, the Quip Modest; the third, the Reply Churlish; the fourth, the Reproof Valiant; the fifth; the Countercheck Quarrelsome; the sixth, the Lie with Circumstance; the seventh, the Lie Direct. All these you may avoid but the Lie Direct; and you may avoid that too, with an If. . . . Your If is the only peace-maker; much virtue in If.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Peace
  • Lying
  • Virtue

• I cannot understand why anyone would want to voluntarily give up an item like a rosary, Bible or photo of their child, or for that matter an extra pair of shoes, pants, shirt or jacket, these are pictures of how people and their personal belongings are treated. If someone wants to judge the ethics and morality of all this, it is up to them to decide what is right and what is wrong and, if they choose to do so, to act upon those feelings.

  

  Tom Keifer Cinderella
  • Feelings
  • Judge
  • Understand

• Mike nodded. A sombre nod. The nod Napoleon might have given if somebody had met him in 1812 and said, "So, you're back from Moscow, eh?

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Might
  • Napoleon
  • Mets

• Modesty is the proof that morality is sexy.

  

  Wendy Shalit
  • Morality
  • Modesty