Geraldine Jewsbury Quotes

society ... is tolerant of crimes, and long suffering with dullness, but it shows no mercy to those who are different from other people.

Geraldine Jewsbury

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• There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Woman
  • Film
  • Director

• I attended the bedside of a friend who was dying in a Dublin hospital. She lived her last hours in a public ward with a television blaring out a football match, all but drowning our final conversation.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • Friend
  • Football
  • Dying

• Be skeptical of concepts that divorce war from its political nature, particularly those that promise fast, cheap victory through technology.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • War
  • Nature
  • Political

• Nothing is inevitable until it happens.

  

  A. J. P. Taylor
  • Nothing
  • Happens
  • Inevitable

• A wise human would have an understanding of the supply chain and how the pieces fit together. But it's against our nature to think about it.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Together
  • Nature
  • Understanding

• I have no regrets. I've got my health.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • Health
  • Regrets
  • No Regrets

• People who are good at film have a relationship with the camera.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • People
  • Good
  • Relationship

• What's clear - and exciting - is that communication for social change is growing.

  

  Aaron Koblin
  • Growing
  • Change
  • Communication

• I'm just a regular person who believes life is simple, and I like a simple life.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • Life
  • Simple
  • Simple Life

• There's a logic today that places a greater value on celebrity the less it is accompanied by actual achievement. I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • People
  • Today
  • Value

• Nobody likes to hear it, because it's dull, but the reason you win or lose is darn near always the same - pitching.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Win
  • Lose
  • Win Or Lose

• The cry for the national home for the Jews does not make much appeal to me. The sanction for it is sought in the Bible and the tenacity with which the Jews have hankered after return to Palestine. Why should they not, like other peoples of the earth, make that country their home where they are born and where they earn their livelihood?

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Country
  • Why
  • Home

• I have invented an invaluable permanent invalid called Bunbury, in order that I may be able to go down into the country whenever I choose.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Country
  • Permanent
  • Invented

• He was naming the groups that were pro-war. No one minds his naming the British or the Administration. But to name 'Jew' is un-American - even if it is done without hate or even criticism. Why?

  

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh
  • Done
  • Why
  • American

• So, to reward him for his run (As it was baking hot, And he was over twenty stone), The King proceeded, half in fun, To knight him on the spot.

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Fun
  • King

• We always make a hot breakfast for the kids: oatmeal, pancakes, bacon, scrambled eggs, the whole deal. We like to have that time in the morning together as a family.

  

  Patti Scialfa
  • Time
  • Family
  • Kids

• I write diverse books because the world we live in is diverse, and I want my books to reflect that truth.

  

  Jenny Han
  • World
  • Live
  • Truth

• I come from a small town and I come from a background where we didn't have money to travel. I thought I'd have to join the military to get to Europe. So I'm thrilled to travel.

  

  Chris Isaak
  • Money
  • Small
  • Travel

• By increasing productivity and becoming more competitive, we will be able to offer better opportunities and improve the standard of living for all Mexicans.

  

  Enrique Pena Nieto
  • Productivity

• I don't think I could ever have a desk job, so I get to be mobile. I'm on set. I get to walk around kind of doing my own thing, being independent - it's just a really good vibe. Everyone on a film set is very happy, and they all love their jobs, so it's a cool environment to be a part of.

  

  Jean-Luc Bilodeau
  • Good
  • Job
  • Happy

• Recreational shopping is the shortest distance between two points: you and broke.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • You
  • Distance
  • Shopping

• We must make it clear that revolution does not merely mean an upheaval or a sanguinary strife. Revolution necessarily implies the programme of systematic reconstruction of society on new and better adapted basis after complete destruction of the existing state of affairs (i.e., regime).

  

  Bhagat Singh
  • Society
  • Revolution

• I kept thinking I was always going to meet the right man, but I never did. Kept waiting for this knight in shining armour. 'When's he coming? He's taking a long time, isn't he?'

  

  Samantha Fox
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Long

• society ... is tolerant of crimes, and long suffering with dullness, but it shows no mercy to those who are different from other people.

  

  Geraldine Jewsbury
  • People
  • Long
  • Crime