Gertrude Bell Quotes
... at times they are good and quiet company, the dead; they will not interrupt your musings, but when they speak, whether they be Jews or Turks or heathens, they will speak in a tongue all can understand. there are even countries where the moving, breathing people are less intelligible, dwell in a world further apart form you, than that silent population under the earth.
Gertrude Bell
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Then my mother had several strokes and my father, who was 85, couldn't handle it, so Donna came back and we went through the same thing here. She lives in Mill Valley; her group is organizing this event.
Sally Quinn
I never liked my father. He really was a dullard and misanthrope. My mother and he were married for 22, years and it was an ill match. She encouraged me to be a writer. She opened her home to black friends, and this was the 1950s. She didn't care later when I write about her.
Edmund White
A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The airport paparazzi kind of wigs me out a little bit.
Carly Rae Jepsen
Where's Eminem, when is Em coming out, Em this, Em that, 50 this, 50 that... What about Obie?
Obie Trice
If men will not act for themselves, what will they do when the benefit of their effort is for all?
Elbert Hubbard
The Reservoir plan is an engineering mechanism applied to the field of economics, and in its essence it has nothing to do with democracy or any other political philosophy.
Benjamin Graham
Look, I'm not odd. I'm just trying to be an actor; not a movie star, an actor.
Montgomery Clift
I've never worried about payback. People are hungry for leadership that's not afraid of political consequence.
Wendy Davis
This is senseless cruelty. It must stop forthwith... I am told that people kill albinos and chop their body parts, including fingers, believing they can get rich when mining or fishing.
Jakaya Kikwete
It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people.
Felix Frankfurter
... at times they are good and quiet company, the dead; they will not interrupt your musings, but when they speak, whether they be Jews or Turks or heathens, they will speak in a tongue all can understand. there are even countries where the moving, breathing people are less intelligible, dwell in a world further apart form you, than that silent population under the earth.
Gertrude Bell