Elizabeth Fox, Baroness Holland Quotes

Troubles, like babies, grow larger by nursing.

Elizabeth Fox, Baroness Holland

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• It's a great challenge to get to play a real-life character. Every actor would love to get a chance, at least once in his life, to play a real-life character.

  

  Madhur Mittal
  • Life
  • Challenge
  • Chance

• The more activity around Chicago-based companies, and the more success that entrepreneurs have in Chicago, the better we as venture capitalists in Chicago will do.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Success
  • Better
  • Chicago

• The one thing I loved so much about making 'Pitch Perfect 2' - especially in comparison to a movie like 'Ten Thousand Saints' - is you can go and be yourself, and you just know that all your weirdness and craziness and imperfections are completely embraced and accepted.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • Movie
  • Perfect
  • Yourself

• If I had simply wanted to trade on an insult to Islam, I could have done it in a sentence rather than writing a 250,000-word novel, a work of fiction.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Done

• I expect people to at least use some thought.

  

  Chrissie Hynde Pretenders
  • People
  • Use
  • Expect

• The commerce of the world is conducted by the strong, and usually it operates against the weak.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • World
  • Commerce
  • Conducted

• If you put these five things together - you can't use money to attract talent, you can't advertise, you can't take risks, you can't invest in long-term results, and you don't have a stock market - then we have just put the humanitarian sector at the most extreme disadvantage to the for-profit sector on every level, and then we call the whole system charity, as if there is something incredibly sweet about it.

  

  Dan Pallotta
  • Money
  • Talent
  • Attract

• The crowns of kings do not prevent those who wear them from being tormented sometimes by violent headaches.

  

  Plutarch
  • Kings
  • Crowns
  • Headaches

• No man, even though he be Shakespeare, can write perfectly when his web is woven of threads that have been spun in many lands.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Men
  • Writing
  • Land

• The Bible is the book that makes fools of the wise of this world; it is only understood by the plain and simple hearted.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Bible
  • Understood
  • Fools

• Rehearsal's mostly to get the sound and lights up and knock a few cobwebs off.

  

  Graeme Edge The Moody Blues
  • Sound
  • Lights
  • Cobwebs

• It is a strange world, a sad world, a world full of miseries, and woes, and troubles; and yet when King Laugh come he make them all dance to the tune he play. Bleeding hearts, and dry bones of the churchyard, and tears that burn as they fall -- all dance together to the music that he make with that smileless mouth of him.

  

  Bram Stoker
  • World
  • Tears
  • Troubles

• Babies, babies, babies. Why did God make so many babies? But no, God didn't make them. Stupid people made them.

  

  Margaret Mitchell
  • God
  • Stupid
  • Babies

• Everybody was terribly distracted by the seemingly unending, white-hot, existential, logistical, mostly mundane troubles of their own day-to-day lives.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Lives
  • Everybody
  • Troubles

• Troubles, like babies, grow larger by nursing.

  

  Elizabeth Fox, Baroness Holland
  • Troubles
  • Babies
  • Nursing