Eunice Kennedy Shriver Quotes

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Eunice Kennedy Shriver

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• It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Women
  • America
  • History

• A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Day

• The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief - call it what you will - than any book ever written. It has emptied more churches than all the counter-attractions of cinema, motor-bicycle and golf course.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Book
  • Golf
  • Cinema

• People prefer doing films. That is not the case with me. I don't do theatre because I have to but because it makes me feel alive. I enjoy the whole process of rehearsing, though repetition can make it tedious.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • People
  • Enjoy
  • Theatre

• I don't believe in hatred anymore. I hate to think of how it felt before When anger overwhelms your very soul It's hard to realize you'll ever knowLove like we do.

  

  Edie Brickell
  • Believe
  • Soul
  • Hate

• 'Vanitas vanitatum' has rung in the earsOf gentle and simple for thousands of years;The wail still is heard, yet its notes never scareEither simple or gentle from Vanity Fair.

  

  Vanity
  • Simple

• 'I distrusted him from the start! Still, who could imagine such protean depravity?' Bunderwal, the supercargo, concurred. 'Cugel, while plausible, nonetheless is a bit of a scoundrel.'

  

  Jack Vance

• Rush Limbaugh advocating for objectivity is like Donald Trump advocating for humility.

  

  Alan Colmes
  • Trump
  • Humility

• Fashion doesn't boost my confidence - rather, it provides a canvas to express or reflect it and whatever is influencing me in my life at the moment.

  

  Caroline Ghosn
  • Life
  • Fashion
  • Confidence

• Our ability to predict how the federal funds rate will evolve over time is quite limited because monetary policy will need to respond to whatever disturbances may buffet the economy.

  

  Janet Yellen
  • Time
  • May

• I look at autism like a bus accident, and you don't become cured from a bus accident, but you can recover.

  

  Jenny McCarthy
  • Autism

• The Academy Awards was an amazing night. I know I kind of lost my mind a little bit. I apologize for that. That night went so fast; I can't remember what I said or what happened.

  

  Cuba Gooding, Jr.
  • Mind
  • Remember
  • Night

• As long as the rent's getting paid, you don't think about getting out of the game.

  

  John Cho
  • Long
  • Game

• Since I wrote to you last we have got our chapel beautifully lighted with gas and have had our anniversary.

  

  John Hawley
  • Anniversary

• At my high school, there were always kids carrying acoustic guitars around, which is why I named my band the Mountain Goats. I didn't want to seem like one of those guys who brought his guitar to the party whether you asked him to or not.

  

  John Darnielle
  • School
  • Why
  • Kids

• There have been so many times when I challenged Republicans on air - in big moments.

  

  Megyn Kelly
  • Moments
  • Air

• You had better refuse a favor gracefully, than to grant it clumsily. Manner is all, in everything: it is by manner only that you can please, and consequently rise. All your Greek will never advance you from secretary to envoy, or from envoy to ambassador; but your address, your manner, your air, if good, very probably may.

  

  Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
  • Good
  • May
  • Air

• All of my dad's family, his brothers and sisters, my nana and grandad and all of the cousins emigrated to Australia within two years of each other. Irish families are close at the best of times, but when you move to the other side of the world, we were like a big posse over there.

  

  Genevieve O'Reilly
  • World
  • Family
  • Dad

• Oh, the secret life of man and woman--dreaming how much better we would be than we are if we were somebody else or even ourselves, and feeling that our estate has been unexploited to its fullest.

  

  Zelda Fitzgerald
  • Life
  • Men
  • Dream

• Each acoustic guitar has its own character and personality. On a particular day, I might pick one up and start noodling around, looking for some emotional content in the chords.

  

  Neil Diamond
  • Up
  • Character
  • Emotional

• To country people Cows are mild, And flee from any stick they throw; But I’m a timid town bred child, And all the cattle seem to know.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • People
  • Country

• We don't think of ourselves as being perfectionists, really. To us it's more about desperately trying to have it sound more or less OK.

  

  Donald Fagen Steely Dan
  • Sound
  • Desperately
  • Perfectionists

• In evolution, as in all areas of science, our knowledge is incomplete. But the entire success of the scientific enterprise has depended on an insistence that these gaps be filled by natural explanations, logically derived from confirmable evidence. Because "intelligent design" theories are based on supernatural explanations, they can have nothing to do with science.

  

  Bruce Alberts
  • Science
  • Knowledge
  • Evolution

• Do the best you can, and then to hell with it!

  

  Eunice Kennedy Shriver
  • Do The Best