Evelyn Laye Quotes

I think that sex should be done, but unlike justice, not seen to be done!

Evelyn Laye

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• So long as you create laws that define women as victims, as creatures that demand protection, that need bodyguards, you are going to perpetuate the very worst of our sexist past.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Long
  • Women
  • Past

• A mortgage transaction is very complex, very complicated, and very localized - the rules are not just by state but by county, sometimes even by municipality.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Sometimes
  • Rules
  • Mortgage

• About three months before a contest, I drink a lot of water. I start to drink a lot of water.

  

  Takeru Kobayashi
  • Water
  • Start
  • Drink

• My mum is an artist and very into creative expression and freedom.

  

  Abbie Cornish
  • Freedom
  • Artist
  • Creative

• I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Loved
  • Been
  • Ever

• In the movies, they make you look good and tough, but in real life, it's completely the opposite. I do these ueber roles, I think, because in real life I'm quite shy and reserved. In real life, I'm a dork.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Life
  • Good
  • Real

• Charles McCarry is the best modern writer on the subject of intrigue - by the breadth of Alan Furst, by the fathom of Eric Ambler, by any measure.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Best
  • Modern
  • Measure

• In this media-drenched, multitasking, always-on age, many of us have forgotten how to unplug and immerse ourselves completely in the moment. We have forgotten how to slow down. Not surprisingly, this fast-forward culture is taking a toll on everything from our diet and health to our work and the environment.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Work
  • Age
  • Culture

• Coal is a portable climate.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Today we are visitors to the airport, tomorrow we will come here as travellers.

  

  Mahmoud Abbas
  • Today

• For he who fights and runs awayMay live to fight another day;But he who is in battle slainCan never rise and fight again.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Live

• If none of us ever read a book that was 'dangerous,' had a friend who was 'different,' or joined an organization that advocated 'change,' we would all be just the kind of people Joe McCarthy wants.

  

  Edward R. Murrow
  • People
  • Different
  • Book

• Showing up is not all of life, but it counts for a lot.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Life
  • Up

• No doubt, when modesty was made a virtue, it was a very advantageous thing for the fools, for everybody is expected to speak of himself as if he were one.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Doubt

• I doubt that even if this evidence could be upgraded to 100 per cent it would persuade the sort of people who go on self-appointed missions of mediation to Baghdad. These people further fail to see that governments now have a further responsibility to their citizens - namely to see that something is done to prevent future assaults on civilisation.

  

  Christopher Hitchens
  • People
  • Done
  • Future

• Whenever I'm being invited to the New York City Marathon like today, I need to think twice because I know it's a very tough race.

  

  Martin Lel
  • Today
  • City

• I get a huge buzz from spending time with kids.

  

  Prince Harry
  • Time
  • Kids

• My passion was to be on Broadway and to be part of this community because I saw what it was like from the outside as the young kid in and around New York, and I would see things like the 'Easter Bonnet' or 'Broadway Bares,' things I would sneak into.

  

  Max von Essen
  • Community
  • Passion
  • Easter

• The commandments are a gift, not a curse. Sin is less about breaking the rules and more about breaking the Father's heart.

  

  Mark Hart Crowded House
  • Heart
  • Sin
  • Gift

• This is not a country that has had a tremendous sympathy for poor people, so I think that the notion that somehow we have slipped into an era in which poor people don't matter is not quite the way our history would define it.

  

  Faye Wattleton
  • People
  • Country
  • History

• Estonia is proud of the fact that the country today has a flourishing and happy Jewish life.

  

  Kersti Kaljulaid
  • Life
  • Country
  • Happy

• Today, Israeli democracy has spoken its piece, in a loud and clear voice.

  

  Ehud Olmert
  • Today
  • Democracy
  • Voice

• If you shall marry, You give away this hand, and this is mine; You give away heaven's vows, and those are mine; You give away myself, which is known mine; For I by vow am so embodied yours That she which marries you must marry me-- Either both or none.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Giving
  • Heaven
  • Hands

• I think that sex should be done, but unlike justice, not seen to be done!

  

  Evelyn Laye
  • Justice
  • Sex