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

• I was inspired by, when I was in college, seeing some incredible speakers come to my school: Michael Eric Dyson, Spike Lee, Nikki Giovanni, and other poets and writers. I always loved that experience: going and sitting in an auditorium and listening to their opinions.

  

  J. Cole
  • School
  • Experience
  • College

• For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.

  

  Rudyard Kipling
  • Female
  • Species
  • MAle

• It's not a lack of confidence, because I can't argue with the fact that I've taken some good pictures. But it's just a raw fear that you've taken the last one.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Good
  • Fear
  • Taken

• Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Life
  • Reality
  • Respect

• I think I'm speaking for a bunch of girls when I say that the idea that feminism is completely natural and shouldn't even be something that people find mildly surprising. ...I find a lot of feminist reading quite confusing and that often there's a set of rules, and people will be like, 'Oh, this person isn't a true feminist because they don't embody this one thing,' and I don't know, often there is a lot of gray area that can be hard to navigate.

  

  Lorde
  • People
  • Thinking
  • True

• Troubles, like babies, grow larger by nursing.

  

  Elizabeth Fox, Baroness Holland
  • Troubles
  • Babies
  • Nursing