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.

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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

• It took me a long time to realise that I was a girl as a teenager. At that point I never really believed it. I looked like a boy for a long time. Now, finally, I feel like a woman.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Time
  • Long
  • Girl

• Even though it has been nearly 2,000 years since Christ's first coming, His second coming is certain.

  

  David Jeremiah
  • Christian
  • Jesus

• 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

• And what sort of lives do these people, who pose as being moral, lead themselves? My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Moral
  • Lives

• There seems to be a hypnotic quality to ambition and speed, so that you feel that you are standing still just because you want to go so fast. You might actually be getting close to your goal.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Quality
  • Feel
  • Ambition

• 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