Beatrice Webb Quotes

All along the line, physically, mentally, morally, alcohol is a weakening and deadening force.

Beatrice Webb

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• Happiness is when you love who you are and you are able to accept yourself and others.

  

  Bar Refaeli
  • Love
  • Happiness
  • Yourself

• We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.

  

  Hans Urs von Balthasar
  • Believe
  • Beauty
  • Appearance

• There was a president imposed by Syria. Our battle... is to have a Lebanese president that we elect.

  

  Walid Jumblatt
  • President
  • Battle
  • Syria

• We would consider it our moral duty to lend all support to the ending of colonialism and imperialism so that people everywhere are free to mould their own destiny.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • People
  • Free
  • Support

• I remember someone once said there is a practical aspect to my designs, and I remember thinking, 'That doesn't sound so creative,' but that is actually the truth. There is a practicality to it. I don't design just to design. There is a reason and, hopefully, an interesting reason behind it - that is where my creativity comes in.

  

  Kate Spade
  • Thinking
  • Truth
  • Remember

• I wouldn't trade a thing. Even the troubles that I had. I have become the husband and mate to my wife that I have because of what I went through, including the bad times. I wouldn't trade that.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Bad
  • Wife
  • Husband

• Saddam Hussein was an odious dictator, but he was also a very effective opponent of Iran. He was also a very effective opponent of al-Qaida.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Very
  • Iran
  • Effective

• 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

• In Japan, I focus mostly on sending messages through Twitter, trying to spread my minority way of thinking.

  

  Takashi Murakami
  • Thinking
  • Trying
  • Focus

• I grew up in Cuba under a strong, military, oppressive dictatorship. So as a teenager, I found myself involved in a revolution. I remember during that time, a young, charismatic leader rose up, talking about hope and change. His name was Fidel Castro.

  

  Rafael Cruz
  • Up
  • Time
  • Remember

• I mean, I would say I get five or six e-mails every day from people asking, "Is there going to be a Leprechaun 6?' It's probably the most asked question besides, 'Is there going to be a Willow II?'

  

  Warwick Davis
  • People
  • Question
  • Day

• I think all of us are multitasking a little more today than we used to or than we would like to. And I think that the issue of work-life balance is a critical issue for every company around the world.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
  • Life
  • World
  • Work

• Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.

  

  Edith Wharton
  • Life
  • Me
  • Always

• I think there's a connection with 'Nightcrawler' and 'Blowup' and other films where visual imagery is integral to the story. It allows you to play with images.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • Think
  • Story
  • Connection

• To see things in the seed, that is genius.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • See
  • Genius
  • Seed

• It's the little things citizens do. That's what will make the difference. My little thing is planting trees.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • Will
  • Trees
  • Little Things

• 我们需要的是热烈而镇定的情绪，紧张而有秩序的工作。

  

  Mao Zedong

• Maybe what we really want is for our children to be the dominant ones! Maybe I'm trying to see my own ambitions fulfilled in them, and that would be wrong, so I should be content with what they are.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Children
  • Trying

• But restraint is the only one sort of control, and absence of restraint isn't freedom. It's not control that's lacking when one feels 'free', but the objectionable control of force.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Free
  • Freedom
  • Control

• Chopin's rubato possessed an unshakeable emotional logic. It always justified itself by a strengthening or weakening melodic line, by exaggeration or affectation.

  

  Karol Mikuli
  • Emotional
  • Possessed
  • Justified

• I hate the idea of success robbing you of your private life.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Life
  • Success
  • Hate

• As a Christian, a trained engineer and scientist, and a professor at Emory University, I am embarrassed by Superintendent Kathy Cox's attempt to censor and distort the education of Georgia's students.... There is no need to teach that stars can fall out of the sky and land on a flat Earth in order to defend our religious faith.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Scientist
  • Engineer
  • Emory University

• When you're drowning, you don't say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,' you just scream.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Drowning
  • Foresight

• All along the line, physically, mentally, morally, alcohol is a weakening and deadening force.

  

  Beatrice Webb
  • Force
  • Alcohol
  • Weakening