Edmund Gosse Quotes

The future comes like an unwelcome guest.

Edmund Gosse

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• 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.

  

  Sadhu Vaswani
  • Love
  • Sacrifice
  • Selfish

• Growing up, I was taught that a woman should lower her gaze so that men could never know her thoughts. The so-called modesty of Arab women is, in fact, a war tactic.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • Up
  • Men
  • Women

• Most of the people who act and sing do so for their own pleasure and that of their friends and family.

  

  Kate Smith
  • People
  • Family
  • Friends

• The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, said an eminent scholar, have God for their Author, the Salvation of mankind for their end, and Truth without any mixture of error for their matter.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • God
  • Truth
  • End

• I knew it would break his heart if I didn't go into the business.

  

  Ida Lupino
  • Heart
  • Business
  • Go

• I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • People
  • Types

• There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.

  

  J. L. Austin
  • More
  • Speech
  • Contradiction

• Personally, I don't like watching violence. I'd much rather see more skin.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Violence
  • See
  • Skin

• If you are only big in China, you are only a local Chinese company.

  

  Wang Jianlin
  • You
  • Chinese
  • Company

• I just love scary movies. I love the thrill.

  

  Odette Annable
  • Movies
  • Scary
  • Thrill

• There wasn't a rich father or rich family that paid for everything that I have right now, so I worked my way.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Family
  • Father
  • Rich

• Believing you're something that you're not excites the mind and the imagination. And it's hopeful.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Mind
  • You
  • Imagination

• I'm a geek through and through. My last job at Microsoft was leading much of the search engine relevance work on Bing. There we got to play with huge amounts of data, with neural networks and other AI techniques, with massive server farms.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Work
  • Job
  • Play

• It's nice to see that people in Middle America are really affected.

  

  Randy Harrison
  • People
  • America
  • Nice

• We have little bags we pack specifically for touch-up makeup if you're chosen for the top 16. I knew I had to sneak in my banana because nothing calms my nerves like it! I don't know if it's the potassium, but I need it before I get on stage because it always calms me down.

  

  Olivia Culpo
  • Up
  • Me
  • Makeup

• Major organizational changes create uncertainty.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
  • Changes
  • Create
  • Uncertainty

• 'Love Story' is actually about a guy that I almost dated. But when I introduced him to my family and my friends, they all said they didn't like him. All of them!

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Family
  • Love
  • Friends

• I did a lot of theater in college, and I knew that not many people make it, but I just figured, 'Well, I really want to try acting while I'm young, and I don't ever want to look back and say that I never gave it a try.' I fully figured I'd be back in grad school - probably for psychology.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • People
  • School
  • College

• We don't have this huge footprint, we are less likely to be targeted as, you know, occupiers [in Afghanistan and Iraq].

  

  Barack Obama
  • Iraq
  • Afghanistan
  • Footprint

• The Bible says, 'Where there is no vision, the people perish.' Have you a vision? And are you undeviatingly pressing and pushing toward its accomplishment? Dreaming alone will not get you there. Mix your dreams with determination and action.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • People
  • Action
  • Alone

• There are two kinds of suffering. There is the suffering you run away from, which follows you everywhere. And there is the suffering you face directly, and so become free.

  

  Ajahn Chah
  • Life
  • Beautiful
  • Running

• What I see in science is a lot of imagination referring to things that are fundamental to what we are. Our cells, our history, our future, our place in the universe, our lack of place in the universe. That's poetry as far as I'm concerned.

  

  Alex Garland
  • History
  • Future
  • Science

• In some ways, September 11, 2001, seems a long time ago. Yet we have done so much in only a few years, and we will continue to do so in the future, to prevent such attacks on America.

  

  George Allen
  • Time
  • Long
  • Done

• The future comes like an unwelcome guest.

  

  Edmund Gosse
  • Future
  • Guest
  • Unwelcome