Elizabeth May Quotes

I don't think they are, but it falls to us to make sure, as the citizens of Ontario, that this does not happen.

Elizabeth May

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• Acting, believe it or not, can get very self-involved! I feel fortunate to have been able to work on things with people who have a very specific point of view and perspective, and who feel like they're doing something very active.

  

  Adam Driver
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• I don't mean to be presumptuous that men don't feel this, I don't mean this, but I found that when my child was born, my first child, it felt like my heart broke.

  

  Tea Leoni
  • Men
  • Heart
  • Child

• For quite a while, it didn't feel right. How could I feel joy when I lost the love of my life? I'm learning that those two things can co-exist. It will never be the same joy, but it doesn't mean there won't be joy.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Life
  • Lost
  • Joy

• It's OK when something doesn't work. It gives you another data point when things do work.

  

  Payal Kadakia
  • Work

• Getting my library card was like citizenship; it was like American citizenship.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • American
  • Library
  • Citizenship

• Even now I cannot help feeling that it is a mistake to think that the passion one feels in creation is ever really shown in the work one creates.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Help
  • Think
  • Feeling

• When I find too many puzzles about the way explanations are given about why there is inequality - why people who work the hardest in the world end up being the poorest - I can't just sit back and not try to understand why the gaps between people are increasing, or why there are so many homeless and hungry people in the world.

  

  Vandana Shiva
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• Casanova, he had no money and no power, and according to some, he even was cute. But he had talent to live, and some literature talent. I love how he invented himself.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Live
  • Money
  • Power

• Particular attention should be given to the opportunities which the environment presents or precludes for involvement of children with persons both older and younger than themselves.

  

  Urie Bronfenbrenner
  • Children
  • Attention
  • Environment

• If a Snickers chocolate bar has 50% sugar, wouldn't it be safe to eat the other half?

  

  Wakas Mir
  • Chocolate
  • Half
  • Bars

• It is hope, not despair, that undoes us all.

  

  Jennifer Donnelly
  • Hope
  • Despair

• We are what we do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.

  

  Aristotle
  • Habit
  • Act
  • Excellence

• Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.

  

  Aristotle
  • Praise
  • Higher
  • Standard

• There are gentle souls who would pronounce Lolita meaningless because it does not teach them anything. I am neither a reader nor a writer of didactic fiction...For me a work of fiction exists only insofar as it affords me what I shall bluntly call aesthetic bliss, that is a sense of being somehow, somewhere, connected with other states of being where art (curiosity, tenderness, kindness, ecstasy) is the norm.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Art
  • Soul
  • Teach

• Growing up poor, I never missed out on anything. My parents did a beautiful job of not making me feel like I was lesser than any other kids.

  

  Mila Kunis
  • Job
  • Kids
  • Parents

• I believe that I have created a lot of cognitive dissonance in the minds of people who are comfortable with stereotypes.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Stereotypes
  • Cognitive dissonance
  • Minds of people

• I don't think of myself as being colored but of being Australian.

  

  Evonne Goolagong Cawley
  • Don't Think
  • Australian
  • Colored

• I don't think they are, but it falls to us to make sure, as the citizens of Ontario, that this does not happen.

  

  Elizabeth May
  • Citizens
  • Don't Think
  • Falls