Debra Ginsberg Quotes
One never really knew what went on inside the hearts of other people, even those hearts you thought you knew as well as your own.
Quotes to Explore
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The hatred Muslim extremists feel against the West feeds on certain conflicts in the world.
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To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.
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It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for the rights and conditions of working men and women in their employment.
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Hold puppies, kittens, and babies anytime you get the chance.
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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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I love books.
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Twitter has become a group conversation of that type that used to take place on trading floors.
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My feeling is that maintaining financial independence is also a healthy way to keep my feet on the ground.
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The people suffering most from the Taliban were Afghans.
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Whence it is somewhat strange that any men from so mean and silly a practice should expect commendation, or that any should afford regard thereto; the which it is so far from meriting, that indeed contempt and abhorrence are due to it.
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And I haven't read a lot of blogs but if someone writes about what they care about I'm sure it's interesting.
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We live on a 500-acre ranch, beautiful ranch.
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I've done two 'Hamlets,' two 'Lears,' three 'Midsummer Night's Dreams' - I've done most of these plays more than once, and every time I direct them, I learn things.
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I want to play Lena Horne because I've always been fascinated with her. Her talent was astounding and more than that, her life story is incredible.
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I'm all those things, even though I don't want to, in the confuse depth of my fatal sensibility.
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Men are virtuous because the women are; women are virtuous from necessity.
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Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.
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I sometimes overeat or drink too much, but I don't eat chocolate, and I gave up smoking when I was 39.
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Never have I had such great minds around me—Smuts, Balfour, Bonar Law...and Curzon. Curzon was perhaps not a great man, but he was a supreme Civil Servant. Compared to these men, the front benches of today are pigmies.
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I am very self-conscious a lot of the time.
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It's not very glamorous. People certainly wouldn't think so if they saw me sitting in my woolly socks at the kitchen table. Many times I sit at the typewriter and think, 'Why am I doing this?'
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People are going to have a good time, you know. One can go have a good time at these big openings in museums. And people go to have a good time. But the thing has another purpose.In the case of museums, it's always got to do with money, people who donate and things like that. And I believe a certain kind of interest has to be demonstrated.
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Life is too short to have anything but delusional notions about yourself.
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One never really knew what went on inside the hearts of other people, even those hearts you thought you knew as well as your own.
