Gertrude Atherton Quotes

Women love the lie that saves their pride, but never an unflattering truth.

Gertrude Atherton

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• I tend not to wear ties very often. I'm usually in old stuff: Hermes or Marc Jacobs boots and jeans and a T-shirt and a leather jacket or a jean jacket.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Old
  • Jeans
  • Boots

• History must share with reading, writing and arithmetic first rank as the most important subjects in the curriculum. Understanding the issues on which citizens of a republic are expected to vote is impossible without an understanding of the past.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Important
  • Writing
  • History

• The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.

  

  Sam Levenson
  • Child
  • Toy
  • Youngest

• I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.

  

  Mae West
  • Temptation
  • Resist
  • Unless

• I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.

  

  N. Scott Momaday
  • Land
  • Landscape
  • Isolation

• We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.

  

  Walker Percy
  • Love
  • Know
  • For Him

• I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Believe
  • Want
  • Liberty

• Bipolar disorder, manic depression, depression, black dog, whatever you want to call it, is inherent in our society. It's a product of stress and in my case over-work.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Work
  • Society
  • Black

• Our regulatory bodies strive to create honest dealings, fair trades, and a situation in which no one has an advantage over anyone else. But human beings aren't honest. And all trades are made because one person thinks he's getting the better of the other, and the other person thinks the same.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Better
  • Situation
  • Strive

• Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Money
  • Attention
  • Drama

• What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.

  

  Eddie Albert
  • World
  • Important
  • Love

• I can be very ordinary looking.

  

  Rachel Tucker
  • Looking
  • I Can
  • Ordinary

• A lot of people think theatre must be much harder work than film, but anything histrionic or superfluous gets seen on camera so you have to work to distil it into a complete sense of what's true.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • People
  • Work
  • True

• I was lucky enough to occasionally break out of that racist situation that prevails in the Hollywood film production community. But it was racist then and it will always be that way. It will never be otherwise.

  

  J. J. Johnson
  • Community
  • Never
  • Lucky

• I can't figure out how you can hire a coach and tell him how you want him to play.

  

  Larry Brown
  • Want
  • Play
  • Him

• The truth is I love musical theater and always have.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Truth
  • Always
  • Theater

• There's only one set of books I've written that I knew was going to be more than one book at the beginning, and those are the 'Missing Link' books.

  

  Kate Thompson
  • Book
  • Beginning
  • Missing

• Thirdly, even if we assume that the world is governed by purpose, we need only add that this purpose - or, if there are several, at least one of them - is not especially intent on preventing suffering, whether it is indifferent to suffering or actually rejoices in it.

  

  Walter Kaufmann
  • World
  • Purpose
  • Suffering

• There are so many women out there who are single moms, really not by choice, and doing it and making it work every day. I think it's becoming much more a part of our culture and I hope that it will become more accepted and that those women are going to be more and more appreciated, respected and supported.

  

  Connie Britton
  • Work
  • Women
  • Hope

• We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

  

  Charles Kettering
  • World
  • Failure

• I love to follow truth; nay, I have made it my duty to persuade others to act on truth and abjure falsehood for the sake of their own good. So, the eradication of iniquities is the object of my life.

  

  Dayananda Saraswati
  • Life
  • Good
  • Truth

• Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Life
  • Great
  • God

• You hear younger women say, 'I don't believe I'm a feminist. I believe women should have equal right and I believe in fighting for the rights of other women, but I'm certainly not a feminist. No, no, not that!' It's just a word. If you called it 'Fred' would it be better?

  

  Gail Collins
  • Believe
  • Women
  • Fighting

• Women love the lie that saves their pride, but never an unflattering truth.

  

  Gertrude Atherton
  • Love
  • Truth
  • Pride