Gertrude Atherton Quotes

No matter how hard a man may labor, some woman is always in the background of his mind. She is the one reward of virtue.

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• Terrorism will spill over if you don't speak up.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Up
  • You
  • Speak

• I don't think the Middle East could afford another war.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • War
  • Think
  • Middle East

• It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Writing
  • Think
  • Nonfiction

• Either war is obsolete, or men are.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Men
  • War
  • Either

• I'm really about my family and really proud of being a Carter.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Family
  • Proud
  • Being

• The trip to Iraq confirmed that I made the right decision when I voted against lending Iraq the $18 billion the United States plans to use to help rebuild the country.

  

  Vic Snyder
  • Country
  • Help
  • Decision

• Everything has a purpose or premise. Every second of our life has its own premise, whether or not we are conscious of it at the time. That premise may be as simple as breathing or as complex as a vital emotional decision, but it is always there.

  

  Lajos Egri
  • Life
  • Time
  • May

• By admitting your inadequacies, you show that you're self-aware enough to know your areas for improvement - and secure enough to be open about them.

  

  Adam Grant
  • You
  • Know
  • Improvement

• In tight quarters, it's important to choose small-scale items.

  

  Candice Olson
  • Important
  • Small
  • Choose

• I love making films, and as long as I love the subject, I just have a crazy amount of passion and energy for the project.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Energy
  • Passion
  • Crazy

• I have to say that getting to tackle Maria in 'The Sound of Music' at Carnegie Hall was surreal. When I heard my voice, it was all I could do to keep myself from doing a British accent and sound like Julie Andrews!

  

  Laura Osnes
  • Music
  • Myself
  • Doing

• I don't think that when I'm acting I feel like I lose myself to it, but that sense of losing, that sense of discomfort, well, I guess maybe that comes a bit! It's about redefining what 'uncomfortable' means for you.

  

  Rachel Keller
  • Myself
  • Acting
  • Losing

• While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, he who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its course.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Up
  • Nature
  • Future

• Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Life
  • Question
  • End

• A movie set actually can be a good place to have a family atmosphere.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Good
  • Family
  • Movie

• You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.

  

  Og Mandino
  • Home
  • Know
  • Events

• The National Flood Insurance Program is a voluntary program. If a community really feels that the building insurance requirements are too burdensome, they don't have to participate.

  

  Earl Blumenauer
  • Community
  • Building
  • Insurance

• Poetry is necessary, but is the poet?

  

  Carlos Drummond de Andrade
  • Poetry
  • Poet
  • Necessary

• The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Man
  • Wisdom
  • Rules

• When you start photographing somebody, it's like a lustful relationship and there's all the excitement of new flesh.

  

  Andrea Modica
  • Relationship
  • Excitement
  • Photographing

• I love dressing up in superhero outfits and in fact, when I dress up as Wonder Woman, I actually think that I'm more powerful.

  

  Olivia Munn
  • Powerful
  • Woman
  • Fact

• I can't be disappointed with my first gold in a senior championship, and to score 5000 points, which only one other woman, the world record holder, has got over, I am satisfied.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • World
  • Woman
  • Gold

• No matter how hard a man may labor, some woman is always in the background of his mind. She is the one reward of virtue.

  

  Gertrude Atherton
  • Woman
  • Virtue
  • Labor