Germaine Greer Quotes

Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.

Germaine Greer

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• Luck marches with those who give their very best.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Best
  • Chance
  • Luck

• If you want to read and you want to draw, that helps you to express yourself.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • Want
  • You
  • Yourself

• I know what it takes to be fast and I feel like every year I learn valuable lessons about how to be better the next time.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Time
  • Learn
  • Year

• When I was immobilized by fear, I might have a panic attack. I've had a couple of panic attacks in my life.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Life
  • Fear
  • Couple

• I was not really as good as I should have been.

  

  Eddie Albert
  • Good
  • Should
  • Been

• There's no way to know the motives of another person totally, even a person that you know very well.

  

  Carl Bernstein
  • Way
  • You
  • Know

• God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met.

  

  Farrah Fawcett
  • God
  • Women
  • Man

• I think from an actor's point of view, you always want something to play that's dramatic or something that feels like it could be very bold in choice. And of course, the boldest possible choice you could play at the end of a character's life is death.

  

  Owain Yeoman
  • Life
  • Character
  • Death

• I really haven't liked the commercialization of mountaineering, particularly of Mt. Everest. By paying $65,000, you can be conducted to the summit by a couple of good guides.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Good
  • You
  • Couple

• Very early in life, it seemed to me that there was a relationship between the problems of the Negro people in America and the Jewish people in Russia, and that the Jewish people's problems were worse than ours.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • People
  • Life
  • America

• It's like, boom! – I've got a girlfriend. It turned out to be a good thing because it made me a rapper.

  

  Young Thug
  • Good
  • Made
  • Thing

• Tiananmen Square in early 1989 attracted many dreamers like Ma Jian, who returned from Hong Kong to a one-room shack in Beijing in order to join the student protests.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Like
  • Dreamers
  • Hong Kong

• Death walks faster than the wind and never returns what he has taken.

  

  Hans Christian Andersen
  • Death
  • Taken
  • Wind

• The spiritual nature of woman is as little considered as the principles of her historical development. Not only is violence being done to the spirit by a biological misinterpretation and by today's economic trends, but also by the materialistic and fundamental point of view of opposing groups.

  

  Edith Stein
  • Done
  • Nature
  • Today

• The Tories in England long imagined that they were enthusiastic about monarchy, the church, and the beauties of the old English Constitution, until the day of danger wrung from them the confession that they are enthusiastic only about ground rent.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Long
  • Church
  • English

• And I also say Pooh for sweetness and light, And if you want to get the most out of life, why the thing to do is to be a gossiper by day and gossipee by night.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Life
  • Why
  • Night

• If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

  

  Lily Tomlin
  • Question

• I'm not a Barbie doll, I'm just a multidimensional human being who likes to make things.

  

  Kali Uchis

• The White House should always be a friend to American freedom.

  

  Nancy Pearcey
  • American
  • House
  • Freedom

• Let none falter who thinks he is right, and we may succeed. But if, after all, we shall fail, be it so: we still shall have the proud consolation of saying to our consciences, and to the departed shade of our country's freedom, that the cause approved of our judgment and adored of our hearts, in disaster, in chains, in torture, in death, we never faltered in defending.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Freedom
  • Proud
  • Succeed

• I was brought up in industrial south Lancashire, down the cobbled road from where LS Lowry (1887 - 1976) lived and painted.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Up
  • Road
  • Down

• I don't think in any language. I think in images.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Thinking
  • Language

• I am so happy that I married a comedy writer. He's never not without a joke. No matter where we are.

  

  Christa Miller
  • Happy
  • Comedy

• Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.

  

  Germaine Greer
  • Freedom
  • Sacrifice
  • Protected