Edmund de Waal Quotes

You just hope, if you make things as I do, that they can make their way in the world and have some longevity.

Edmund de Waal

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• Sadly, for some mothers, this experience can be made so much harder due to challenges with our very mental health.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Experience
  • Health

• Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Character
  • Judge
  • Dreams

• Once you are a model, you do have to fly a million red-eye flights, and you do have to entertain a different client every single day.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Different
  • Single
  • Day

• I didn't have a long-term plan or goal. If there would have been a road map showing me the way to my dreams becoming reality, I might have given it a second thought.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Long
  • Reality
  • Road

• What you have said, Mr. President, fully satisfies me that you have given to every proposition which has been made, a kind and candid consideration. And you have now expressed the conclusion to which you have arrived, clearly and distinctly.

  

  Salmon P. Chase
  • Me
  • Kind
  • Consideration

• Judge Sotomayor is a liberal judicial activist of the first order who thinks her own personal political agenda is more important that the law as written.

  

  Wendy E. Long
  • Important
  • Political
  • Law

• We must fight as a race for everything that makes for a better country and a better world. We are dreaming idiots and trusting fools to do anything less.

  

  Ralph Bunche
  • World
  • Country
  • Better

• A writer without a reader doesn't exist.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Writer
  • Exist
  • Without

• Scientists are not delinquents. Our work has changed the conditions in which men live, but the use made of these changes is the problem of governments, not of scientists.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Work
  • Men
  • Live

• I was brought up Irish, where there was room for my own private world.

  

  P. L. Travers
  • Up
  • World
  • Irish

• I just love expanding my horizons and growing as an artist. The only way you get to do that is by doing something that scares you or takes you out of your comfort zone.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Artist
  • Get
  • Comfort Zone

• The Bay of Pigs became a metaphor for feckless folly and failure.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Failure
  • Folly
  • Pigs

• Form the habit early in life of leaving your business at the store or wherever you may be employed. Never carry it home to mar the peace of your family; if you do, you will soon drive out the sunshine.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Life
  • Family
  • May

• I like to get real pretty.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Real
  • Pretty
  • Like

• Some country is going to be the clean energy superpower of the 21st century and create millions of jobs and businesses. It’s probably going to be either China, Germany, or America. I want it to be us! We invent the technology, we should make it and use it and export it, which will help to grow our economy.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Country
  • America
  • Help

• Apart from logical cogency, there is to me something a little odd about the ethical valuations of those who think that an omnipotent, omniscient, and benevolent Deity, after preparing the ground by many millions of years of lifeless nebulae, would consider Himself adequately rewarded by the final emergence of Hitler and Stalin and the H-bomb.

  

  Bertrand Russell

• Is he President of the United States? According to the constitution in order to be eligible for president, you have to be a natural born citizen. He has refused to provide proof that he is, in fact, a natural born citizen and his Kenyan relations say that he was born in Nairobi, at a time when his mother was too young to transmit US citizenship.

  

  Alan Keyes
  • Time
  • Mother

• Memorable providence, relating to witchcraft's and possessions. (1689) 1

  

  Cotton Mather

• From the time I started the decathlon, I've loved the event. I didn't know why. I still don't know why.

  

  Ashton Eaton
  • Time
  • Why

• There ain't no sort of orse that I ain't bred, and no sort of dorg. Orses and dorgs is some men's fancy. They're wittles and drink to me - lodging, wife, and children - reading, writing, and Arithmetic - snuff, tobacker, and sleep.

  

  David Copperfield
  • Men
  • Writing
  • Children

• I hope girls read what I say in interviews - they should just be themselves.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Hope
  • Say
  • Just

• We work with broken families and broken people who've lost hope and are helpless. If people oppose my work, launch personal attacks, we know that we are on the right path. One colleague was shot, another was beaten to death. I've injuries all over my body. We work against a social evil. If this evil isn't reacting it means we aren't a threat.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • People
  • Work
  • Hope

• Leaving behind nights of terror and fear I rise Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear. I rise Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise I rise I rise.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Hope
  • Fear
  • Leaving

• You just hope, if you make things as I do, that they can make their way in the world and have some longevity.

  

  Edmund de Waal
  • Hope
  • Longevity