Gertrude Atherton Quotes

Her age was that indeterminate mixture of everlasting youth and anticipated wisdom which is the glory and the curse of genius.

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• All the evidence shows very clearly that if you are a member of a trade union you are likely to get better pay, more equal pay, better health and safety, more chance to get training, more chance to have conditions of work that help if you have caring responsibilities... the list goes on!

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • Work
  • Help
  • Health

• I kept trying to write these books that were sort of outside of my realm, and I kept failing.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Trying
  • Write
  • Books

• Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Alone
  • Stars
  • Galaxy

• Who is ready to settle for five minutes when three hours does nicely?

  

  Jackie Collins
  • Three
  • Ready
  • Settle

• If you look at history, at the first time hip-hop was invented, there was a Latino right there. How they got erased, I don't know how that all came about.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Time
  • History
  • Look

• I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right; but it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation may be on the Lord's side.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • May
  • Know
  • Prayer

• When I started selling air conditioners early on, customers were willing to pay an extra 200 yuan to buy from Suning. Why? Service was good.

  

  Zhang Jindong
  • Good
  • Why
  • Air

• Even if you've been involved in a World Cup, the Olympics is huge. Only the Games has the power to change communities.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • World
  • Power
  • Change

• Peregrine Wickwrackrum was of two minds about evil: when enough rules get broken, sometimes there is good amid the carnage.

  

  Vernor Vinge
  • Good
  • Evil
  • Broken

• I've tried several varieties of sex, all of which I hate. The conventional position makes me claustrophobic; the others give me a stiff neck and/or lockjaw.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Hate
  • Sex

• We do not have that much to moan about when one thinks of what people did not moan about before.

  

  Margrethe II of Denmark
  • People

• While thus he threw his Elbow round, Depopulating all the Ground, And, with his whistling Sythe, does cut Each stroke between the Earth and Root, The edged Stele by careless chance Did into his own Ankle glance; And there among the Grass fell down, by his own Sythe, the Mower mown.

  

  Andrew Marvell
  • Earth

• Capitalism is the least romantic conception of a public order that the human mind has ever conceived.

  

  Irving Kristol
  • Mind
  • Romantic

• It is important that South Africans of all political persuasions be represented in Parliament.

  

  Cyril Ramaphosa
  • Important
  • Political

• The nice thing about the zodiac as a system is it is quite comprehensive as a range of impulses and psychological states it can speak about.

  

  Eleanor Catton
  • Nice

• A flexible exchange rate is important, and it shouldn't be artificially restrained because of the needs of the economy.

  

  Elvira Nabiullina
  • Important

• Always when you go to a new country and they teach you bad words, you just say them without knowing the value and people look at you because you didn't know that value of them.

  

  Antonio Banderas
  • People
  • Country
  • Bad

• The JCPOA is working - preventing Iran from developing a nuclear weapon. It's time for the Republicans to start working, too.

  

  Jan Schakowsky
  • Time

• And if there is one path above all others to war, it is the path of weakness and disunity.

  

  John F. Kennedy
  • War
  • Path

• So many times, I will have people tell me what I did when I was younger. There's so much being written [about] the early Beatles period, and even pre-Beatles period. And people will say, "Oh, he did that because that, and that happened because of that." And I'll be reading and think, "Well, that didn't happen" and, "That's not why I did that." Like anyone's history, you remember what went down better than people who weren't there.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Why

• Among the liberties of citizens that are guaranteed are ... the right to believe what one chooses, the right to differ from his neighbor, the right to pick and choose the political philosophy he likes best, the right to associate with whomever he chooses, the right to join groups he prefers.

  

  William O. Douglas
  • Believe
  • Political
  • Philosophy

• Wise men never grow up; indeed, they grow younger, for they lose the appalling worldly wisdom of youth.

  

  John Buchan
  • Up
  • Men
  • Wisdom

• The group of guys I came up with in the 1990s were very innovative. I remember some of the older guys were complaining about how the music had changed, and they were being left behind. I didn't want to be one of those guys who sat around and complained because they weren't growing and evolving.

  

  Tracy Lawrence
  • Up
  • Music
  • Remember

• Her age was that indeterminate mixture of everlasting youth and anticipated wisdom which is the glory and the curse of genius.

  

  Gertrude Atherton
  • Wisdom
  • Glory
  • Indeterminate