Karen Essex Quotes

It appears to me that our sex is only discussed publicly in a derogatory manner. The respectable woman is doomed to anonymity.

Karen Essex

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• I would love to be employed for the rest of my life... But what I would want to do is things that would frighten me, things that would scare me. I've never done that before; can I do that, can I show them that I can do it?

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Life
  • Done
  • Rest

• The Queen was really thrilled that we'd had a little girl, and when we came back here to Kensington, she was one of her first visitors.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • She
  • Girl
  • Queen

• We have shown that Islam can rule the world perfectly for 14 centuries, and during this time of Muslim power we did not borrow ideas like democracy from others, so why do we need to learn democracy from them now?

  

  Abu Bakar Bashir
  • Time
  • World
  • Why

• I'm a strong proponent of green tech for anyone who can afford it, having spent the last 40 years working toward achieving a smaller and smaller eco-impact for myself.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • Strong
  • Myself
  • Green

• Purge thy heart from malice and, innocent of envy, enter the divine court of holiness.

  

  Bahá'u'lláh
  • Heart
  • Innocent
  • Envy

• Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

  

  Aristotle
  • Children
  • Mother`s
  • Fathers

• But to me the notion that spirituality is separate from the rest of life does not allow for a practical approach to living a life that has extraordinary quality.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Quality
  • Approach
  • Extraordinary

• ...a sad sort of vulnerability was wafting from her, making the night smell like maple syrup.

  

  Sarah Addison Allen
  • Vulnerability
  • Syrup

• You're going to make mistakes. The key is to learn from them as fast as possible and make changes as soon as you can. That's not always easy to do because ego and pride get in the way, but you have to put all that aside and look at the big picture.

  

  Tiger Woods
  • Mistakes
  • Changes

• With myself, Mario Balotelli, Robinho, Alessandro Matri, Giampaolo Pazzini, and now Kaka, we will be too strong.

  

  Stephan El Shaarawy
  • Strong

• Capitalism cannot reform itself; it is doomed to self-destruction.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Capitalism
  • Reform
  • Doomed

• An army which cannot be regularly recruited is a doomed army.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Army
  • Doomed
  • Recruited

• Si me olvidase de lo que no he sido, me olvidaría de mí.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• Words have divided man from woman, one from another, this from that, until only sages know how to put things together. Without words, without even understanding, lovers find each other. The moment of finding is always a surprise, like meeting an old friend never before known.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Words
  • Surprise
  • Sages

• Did any great genius ever enter the world in the wake of commonplace pre-natal conditions? Was a maker of history ever born amidst the pleasant harmonies of a satisfied domesticity? Of a mother who was less than remarkable, although she may have escaped being great? Did a woman with no wildness in her blood ever inform a brain with electric fire? The students of history know that while many mothers of great men have been virtuous, none have been commonplace, and few have been happy.

  

  Gertrude Atherton
  • History
  • Mother
  • Genius

• It appears to me that our sex is only discussed publicly in a derogatory manner. The respectable woman is doomed to anonymity.

  

  Karen Essex
  • Doomed
  • Respectable
  • Anonymity