Alice Walker Quotes

The little I knew about my own self wouldn’t have filled a thimble!

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• I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • World
  • Family
  • Love

• Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • World
  • Work
  • Great

• As President, I will end once and for all the use of taxpayer funds to promote the National Endowment for the Arts and other programs that subsidize amoral and degrading activities.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • End
  • President
  • Arts

• I come from a poor family, so really, the culture I know best is the street, TV, school.

  

  Maiwenn
  • Family
  • School
  • Culture

• I call on the people of Tripoli to restrain themselves and not get drawn into conflict with anyone.

  

  Najib Mikati
  • People
  • Conflict
  • Themselves

• Australia, to the rest of the world, is just far away, and Australia in the Thirties was the faraway of the faraway.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • World
  • Rest
  • Australia

• Anybody who has interacted with me will definitely find me to be a chirpy person.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Person
  • Find
  • Definitely

• Nothing could be as hard as middle school.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • School
  • Nothing
  • Middle

• I always like to tell a story.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Like
  • Always
  • Story

• Physical intimacy is easy. Emotional intimacy is hard.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Emotional
  • Easy
  • Hard

• Charles went towards the table, but he had no lady-like powers of filling four sheets with nothing, and the letter was soon sealed.

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

• That men should ‘turn the other cheek,’ should ‘love their enemies,’ should ‘resist not evil,’ has ever seemed fine to teach to children, to preach on Sundays, to round a period in a senseless oratorical flight; but it has been taken for granted that these sentiments cannot furnish the real foundation for strong characters or great states. p. 13

  

  Clarence Darrow
  • Great
  • Men
  • Children

• As we passed under the last bridge over the canal, just before reaching the Merrimack, the people coming out of church paused to look at us from above, and apparently, so strong is custom, indulged in some heathenish comparisons; but we were the truest observers of this sunny day

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • People
  • Strong
  • Church

• I've always moved by my heart. I've moved by the spirit of what I feel was right for me next. I always pray and ask God: 'What's the next thing? What am I supposed to do next?'

  

  Rickie Lee Skaggs
  • God
  • Heart

• Yes, yes, no one denies, for example, that you're going to be able to fix the Murray through the Living Murray process without money, no one denies that.

  

  John Anderson
  • Money

• Scientists are always skeptics.

  

  Donald Norman
  • Scientists
  • Skeptics

• What I have realized is I cannot guarantee the absence of discrimination or hatred or prejudice, but I can guarantee the presence of justice.

  

  Loretta Lynch
  • Justice

• I know when something is going to work for me, and I feel when it's not, so I am going to carry that into the music.

  

  Brynn Cartelli
  • Work
  • Music

• Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.

  

  Paulo Coelho

• Quality effective leaders have the confidence to trust others to try, succeed, and sometimes to fail. We very often confuse personality with leadership. In other words, leadership is not about being a nice person or not a nice person.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Trying
  • Quality
  • Sometimes

• Usually when a song comes to me, I don't ask a lot of questions; I hear something, and I just let it out in song. It's like making a salad. Everything I hear, and everything I am, I mix together in a different way in each song.

  

  Yael Naim
  • Song
  • Way
  • Questions

• There have been times when I reread - or at least leafed through - something because I'd sent a copy to a friend, and what usually happened was that I noticed dozens and dozens of clumsy phrases I wished I could rewrite.

  

  Peter Straub
  • Friend

• I think that it gave me a really strong feeling of my life force and a confidence in myself. I felt like I was a man. Before that point for some reason, I always felt I was a boy laughter. In fact, they called me the baby on the ship 'cause I was the youngest guy on the ship. But I always felt that way.

  

  Haskell Wexler
  • Feeling
  • Life force

• The little I knew about my own self wouldn’t have filled a thimble!

  

  Alice Walker