Katie Davis Quotes

Courage isn't about knowing the path, it's about taking the first step.

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• In fact, from then on scholars engaged in a kind of game of comparing different Indo-European languages with one another, and eventually they could not fail to wonder what exactly these connections showed, and how they should be interpreted in concrete terms.

  

  Ferdinand de Saussure
  • Different
  • Game
  • Kind

• I know having a Jason Bourne all alone in a field firing at bad guys is much more dramatic, but it's not real.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Real
  • Bad
  • Know

• I was actually pretty shy in school. My defense mechanism was to be the class clown. I remember getting into a lot of trouble for being disruptive, and I was brought in front of the headteacher, who said: 'What's going to happen to you; what are you going to do when you grow up?' and I said: 'Well, I'm obviously going to be a comedian.'

  

  Adam Clayton U2
  • Up
  • School
  • Remember

• Survival is not about being fearless. It's about making a decision, getting on and doing it, because I want to see my kids again, or whatever the reason might be.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Kids
  • Decision
  • Survival

• One hates to be absolute, but in my view, there is no such thing as humane meat.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • View
  • Meat
  • Humane

• I'm so sick of gay this, gay that. I could care less. It ain't affecting my life at all.

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • Life
  • Care
  • Gay

• Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Life
  • Political
  • Community

• We need an unambiguous rule - a law - that nobody will step between the publisher and the consumer, full stop.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Law
  • Stop
  • Will

• Families always stay the same, but they always provide more stories.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Always
  • Same
  • More

• I want to write music that's going to appeal to everyone.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Music
  • Want
  • Everyone

• When everything is good, maybe I think it's the time to do something else.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Time
  • Good
  • Think

• I have crushes on women all the time.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Time
  • Women
  • Crushes

• In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Words
  • Ideas
  • Poetry

• I think that taking ballet is one of the best things a girl can do. Period.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • Think
  • Girl
  • Best

• In any event, it's not exactly a secret to regular readers what my views on the war are.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • War
  • Secret
  • Event

• We talk about toughness as a quarterback: it's not sometimes the physical part that you see; it's the mental toughness and the 'I'm going to stand in here, take this shot,' and 'I'm going to deliver it to my guy.'

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Guy
  • Sometimes
  • See

• Basketball wasn't going particularly well, but in my senior year, I did a play and got a wonderful card from a professor that said, 'I don't know what your plans are after school or if acting is a part of it, but you have something special.' Hearing that from someone who I had so much respect for pointed me in that direction.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • School
  • Respect
  • Special

• I don't feel like a 27-year-old; I feel I am way mature than someone that age.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Age
  • Feel

• It was a very circuitous path. It was not very linear - I floundered about for many years.

  

  David Grann
  • Path

• In his personal life, Donald Trump shows that even when a family faces difficulties, the role of the father must remain strong - his children are a testament to the fact that a father who remains engaged can overcome many odds and set children on the right path.

  

  David A. Clarke, Jr.
  • Life
  • Children
  • Family

• I have this exercise where I force myself to look out from the flower's point of view at these great walloping humans coming down the path, and try, just try and feel it from their point of view because it's a different world to them, a fascinating hard one.

  

  Alice Oswald
  • World
  • Great
  • Different

• We are surrounded by pictures; we have an abundance of theories about them, but it doesn't seem to do us any good. Knowing what pictures are doing, understanding them, doesn't seem necessarily to give us power over them.

  

  William J. Mitchell
  • Giving
  • Understanding
  • Knowing

• Courage isn't about knowing the path, it's about taking the first step.

  

  Katie Davis
  • Courage
  • Path
  • Knowing