Lauren Groff Quotes

The greatest texts, I think, first dazzle, then with careful rereading, they instruct. I have learned from Virginia Woolf more than I even know how to articulate.

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• The point is to change one's life. The point is not to give some vent to the emotions that have been destroying one; the point is so to act that one can master them now.

  

  Barbara Deming
  • Life
  • Change
  • Master

• Cancer is really a DNA disease... We have these certain genes that prevent our cells from growing out of control at the expense of the body. And it's a pretty good, robust system. But if a couple of these genes fail, then that's when cancer starts, and cells start growing out of control.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Growing

• The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Time
  • House
  • Film

• I don't know the right way to retire.

  

  Barry Sanders
  • Way
  • Know
  • Retire

• We are dealing with treachery and threats, which accompanied the establishment of Israel.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • Israel
  • Dealing
  • Treachery

• I'm not religious, so theres no church on Sunday.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Church
  • Religious
  • Sunday

• Back in the day, I used to read 'Archie,' but I haven't been a comic book aficionado.

  

  Danai Gurira
  • Book
  • Day
  • Back

• Animals can adapt to problems and make inventions, but often no faster than natural selection can do its work - the world acts as its own simulator in the case of natural selection.

  

  Vernor Vinge
  • World
  • Work
  • Problems

• I don't ever want to feel complacent.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Want
  • Feel
  • Complacent

• At the end of the day, I got to live my life for my family, for my children, and I'm going to do what's best for them.

  

  T.I.
  • Life
  • Live
  • Children

• I like a woman who takes care of herself – it says something about the way she'll care for me.

  

  Usher
  • Way
  • Woman
  • Care

• When I was a kid, we didn't have a TV until the late '50s, but I can remember watching Hopalong Cassidy, Roy Rogers, Steve McQueen, and 'Gunsmoke.'

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Remember
  • Kid
  • Late

• Members of Congress I have the high privilege and distinct honour of presenting to you, his excellency Bertie Ahern (/ei/hern), the Taoiseach, the Prime Minister of Ireland

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • High

• My definition of a scientist is that you can complete the following sentence: ‘he or she has shown that…’,'

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • She

• Mr Premier, Sir. Neither you nor I speak English, but there are some things that can be said only in English.

  

  Aravind Adiga
  • English

• Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don't have.

  

  Anthony Bourdain
  • Character

• Liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of central government.

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • Country
  • War
  • Control

• Bad things happen to bad people. Bad things happen to good people. Bad things happen to okay people. Bad things happen to everyone.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Everyone

• Autumn clouds, vague and obscure; The evening, lonely and chill. I felt the dampness on my garments, But saw no spot, and heard no sound of rain.

  

  Bai Juyi
  • Rain
  • Lonely
  • Clouds

• The clarification of visual forms and their organization in integrated patterns as well as the attribution of such forms to suitable objects is one of the most effective training grounds of the young mind.

  

  Rudolf Arnheim
  • Mind
  • Education
  • Training

• It takes personal sacrifice to communicate when conditions are right for the other person-during the meal preparation, after a date, a hurt, a victory, a disappointment, or when someone wants to share a confidence. One must be willing to forego personal convenience to invest time in establishing a firm foundation for family communication. When communication in the family seems to be bogging down, each individual should look to himself for the remedy.

  

  Marvin J. Ashton
  • Time
  • Family
  • Confidence

• The idea that no one really knew how to run a government led to the idea that we should arrange a system by which new ideas could be developed, tried out, and tossed out if necessary, with more new ideas brought in - a trial and error system.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Government
  • Ideas
  • Should

• The greatest texts, I think, first dazzle, then with careful rereading, they instruct. I have learned from Virginia Woolf more than I even know how to articulate.

  

  Lauren Groff