Elizabeth Borton de Trevino Quotes

I was like many another who starts an intrigue timidly. Once into it, I had to go on, and therefore I had to harden my sensibilities.

Elizabeth Borton de Trevino

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• I see Vostok-6 quite often in the centre for cosmonaut training. And every time I pass it by, I stroke it and say, 'My lovely one, my best and most beautiful friend, my best and most beautiful man.'

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • Time
  • Beautiful
  • Friend

• Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • True
  • Everyone
  • Be True

• I think that Frank Sinatra was maybe the greatest pop singer.

  

  Linda Ronstadt
  • Singer
  • Frank Sinatra

• I thought that you had stood up for the free will & rights of humans in this town.” “Depends on the human,” Claire said. “As far as I know, Hitler had a heartbeat, and I wouldn’t vote him to be in charge.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Up
  • Free
  • Human

• Let the intellect alone, it has its usefulness in its proper sphere, but let it not interfere with the flowing of the life-stream.

  

  D. T. Suzuki
  • Life
  • Alone
  • Intellect

• Sonic Youth could never really get it together acoustically - quite frankly, it wasn't something we were really that interested in.

  

  Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth
  • Never
  • Interested
  • Get

• I have a very thick skin. I take everything that comes and let it bounce right off me because I know the time will come when nobody will be able to speak falsely.

  

  Prince
  • Time
  • Skin

• I stand for simple justice, equal opportunity and human rights. The indispensable elements in a democratic society - and well worth fighting for.

  

  Helen Suzman
  • Society
  • Opportunity
  • Simple

• He says all the right things, like it's Jeter's team. I want to correct him on that - it's my team.

  

  George Steinbrenner
  • Want
  • Team
  • Yankees

• The Sudanese have delighted me, not only in their generosity and simplicity, but also in their tendency to take tea with milk and not to hesitate to dunk biscuits in it. As an Englishman, you can imagine the feeling of fraternal closeness that this activity has generated.

  

  Tom Allen
  • Feelings
  • Imagine
  • Tea

• Anyone with any sense knew that one of the best parts of the day was the hour just as the sun was rising.

  

  Betty Neels
  • Sense
  • Rising

• The most trusted way to keep moving up that value chain is to keep investing in individuals - to help them grow in knowledge and skills. Education is hard. It takes individuals to do the hard work.

  

  Andrew Ng
  • Education
  • Grow
  • Investing

• This case will be won in the courtroom and not through 'leaks' in the media. When he has his day in court, Michael Jackson will be acquitted and vindicated.

  

  Thomas Mesereau
  • Media
  • Case
  • Courtroom

• Please. If you were mostly dead in the middle of the road I'd obviously stop. And then I'd watch you die.

  

  Elizabeth Scott
  • Stop
  • Dead
  • Please

• The more evolutionary theory gets called an atheistic theory, the greater the risk that it will lose its place in public school biology courses in the United States. If the theory is thought of in this way, one should not be surprised if a judge at some point decides that teaching evolutionary theory violates the Constitutional principle of neutrality with respect to religion.

  

  Elliott Sober
  • Religion
  • Judge
  • Teaching

• The motion picture is like journalism in that, more than any of the other arts, it confers celebrity. Not just on people - on acts, and objects, and places, and ways of life. The camera brings a kind of stardom to them all. I therefore doubt that film can ever argue effectively against its own material: that a genuine antiwar film, say, can be made on the basis of even the ugliest battle scenes ... No matter what filmmakers intend, film always argues yes.

  

  Renata Adler
  • Doubt
  • Celebrity
  • Ways

• The love-bite, it is the beginning. You will be irresistible.

  

  Bela Lugosi
  • Beginning
  • Irresistible
  • Love-bite

• I have nothing but myself to write about, no facts, no theories, no opinions, no adventures, no sentiments, nothing but my own poor barren individualism, of considerable interest to me, but I do not know why I should presume it will be so to you. Egotism is not tiresome, or it ought not to be, if one is sincere about oneself; but it is so hard to be sincere. Well, never mind, I mean to be, and you know me well enough to see through me when I am humbugging.

  

  James Anthony Froude
  • Interest
  • Opinions
  • Sencere

• I was like many another who starts an intrigue timidly. Once into it, I had to go on, and therefore I had to harden my sensibilities.

  

  Elizabeth Borton de Trevino
  • Sensibility
  • Intrigue