George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton Quotes

A woman's noblest station is retreat.

George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton

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• I don't Twitter, although sometimes I think that I should.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Think
  • Sometimes
  • Twitter

• Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.

  

  Mae West
  • Rain
  • Boyfriend
  • Save

• He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.

  

  Florence King
  • Feminism
  • Travels
  • Spinsterhood

• I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny, but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Life
  • Funny
  • Commitment

• To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Black
  • Individual
  • White

• Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.

  

  Yvette Nicole Brown
  • God
  • You
  • White

• Fortunately, I don't spend too much time reading or worrying about what people have to say, but the goal for me throughout this whole process - throughout my whole life - is to try to be happy.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• When you are clinically diagnosed with depression as a teenager, sometimes people don't understand it. You feel like you should be happy, especially when you have a very lucky upbringing, and you blame yourself.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • People
  • Happy
  • Yourself

• I think '80s pop music subconsciously informs what I'm doing.

  

  Washed Out
  • Music
  • Think
  • Doing

• Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.

  

  M. Esther Harding
  • Beginning
  • Conflict

• When you're in a black group, you have to keep in mind you're not black. You just have to be sensitive. We have to be appreciative that the black nationalist struggle is a nationalist struggle.

  

  Yuri Kochiyama
  • Mind
  • Black
  • Struggle

• I watched the Disney Channel all the time growing up. 'Lizzie McGuire' was my all-time favorite. I'm pretty sure I had every piece of merchandise that involved Lizzie. And I loved 'That's So Raven.'

  

  Olivia Holt
  • Up
  • Time
  • Pretty

• Geography has no bearing on it, nor have the interests of the community in which I work.

  

  Yves Tanguy
  • Work
  • Community
  • Geography

• Voice comes to you through a spell, a trance. The best voices are not you... they're a little away from you.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • You
  • Best
  • Voice

• I tell my children now that they are older, 'If something happens to me... don't make no big fuss over me. Don't make no big expense on my funeral. Don't put any pressure on the rest of the family. I've loved everybody, and I hope they loved me. But don't create this big expense for the family.'

  

  B. B. King
  • Children
  • Family
  • Hope

• I'm not the most charismatic, maybe emotional, fun-packed individual on the golf course; I get that.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Fun
  • Emotional
  • Golf

• Bebop and hip-hop, in so many ways, they're connected. A lot of rappers remind me so much of bebop guys in terms of improvisation, beats and rhymes. My dream is to see hip-hop incorporated in education. You've got the youth of the world in the palm of your hand.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • World
  • Dream
  • Education

• Every day of my life, I make an effort. Like, everything's an effort - a good effort.

  

  Finn Jones
  • Life
  • Good
  • Day

• The lovers, appearing happy, walk, holding hands. Though it appears everything is perfect, only they know the truth.

  

  Ayumi Hamasaki
  • Truth
  • Happy
  • Perfect

• I know this is economic jargon, but essentially, if you bring more women to the job market, you create value, it makes economic sense, and growth is improved. There are countries where it's almost a no-brainer: Korea, Japan, soon to be China, certainly Germany, Italy. Why? Because they have an aging population.

  

  Christine Lagarde
  • Women
  • Why
  • Job

• It's a thankless job for police officers, period, but specifically for men and women of color protecting and serving.

  

  John David Washington
  • Men
  • Women
  • Job

• I like women who have an opinion one way or the other or who have a great sense of humor and a great sense of adventure. I can be friends with women who are not like that, but I don't have that hard emotional connection.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Great
  • Women
  • Friends

• There's a lot that's out of your control. But the one thing that you can control is your work ethic.

  

  Christen Press
  • Work
  • Control

• A woman's noblest station is retreat.

  

  George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton
  • Women
  • Retreat