Audrey Hepburn Quotes

Gardening is the greatest tonic and therapy a human being can have. Even if you have only a tiny piece of earth, you can create something beautiful, which we all have a great need for. If we begin by respecting plants, it's inevitable we'll respect people.

Audrey Hepburn

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• Human being

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• All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery.

  

  Otto Weininger
  • Genius
  • Chaos
  • Mystery

• I've often said that there's no one thing that I do or have done that is particularly unique. There have been a lot of other authors who were in the military. There have been a few others who were pilots. There have certainly been a lot of other people who were in politics or served congressional staffs.

  

  L. E. Modesitt
  • People
  • Done
  • Military

• I actually started playing in little cafes around New York, and I have a lot of good friends of mine who are musicians who are struggling in New York.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Musicians

• When I saw 'Pretty In Pink' at the cinema at the age of 11, I just thought it was a period piece from maybe 100 years previously. I had no idea that was what everybody was supposed to be wearing.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Age
  • Pretty
  • Thought

• I knew on the day that I accepted my job at CNN that a ratings victory at 8 P.M. was going to be a formidable challenge. As I have been told over and over, this is the toughest time slot in cable news.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Time
  • Job
  • Day

• When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.

  

  Larry Brown
  • Great
  • Bad
  • College

• Do what you are not supposed to do, like wear white shoes all year round.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Shoes
  • Year
  • White

• I think the reaction to a World War II situation would be the same today as it was in 1942. Initially, people would question, but once patriotism got stirred up, the whole thing would gather momentum and we'd all pull together.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Age
  • Old
  • Youth

• Nation states that are used to imposing capital controls will face a quandary: ban cryptocurrencies and live in the technology dustbin; enable them, and this virus - this religion, this protocol - will enable the free flow of money and language, along with packets, around the globe.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • Live
  • Money
  • Free

• I studied at UC Santa Cruz before going on to do a grad program at UCLA. Santa Cruz was like an awesome hippie summer camp. I got to take a vacation from reality and hang out on beaches and in forests.

  

  Aaron Koblin
  • Reality
  • Summer
  • Awesome

• I skipped kindergarten because I was reading at a pretty high level. That's a weird and cocky thing to say, but I was real sharp, and I knew that early on.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Real
  • High
  • Pretty

• I get no satisfaction just showing myself in every corner of the world every week.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • World
  • Myself
  • Week

• With thrillers, there's such a fine line between what's good and what's cheesy and corny.

  

  Olivia d'Abo
  • Good
  • Line
  • Cheesy

• Democracy cannot be imposed on any nation from the outside. Each society must search for its own path, and no path is perfect.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Society
  • Perfect
  • Democracy

• Any can do it - BE RADIANT! Make the decision. I want to be an agent of change to a loving world - so I will be radiant.

  

  Patch Adams
  • World
  • Decision

• There are limits beyond which your folly will not carry you. I am glad of that. In fact, I am relieved.

  

  Isaac Asimov

• Men of learning are those who have read the contents of books. Thinkers, geniuses, and those who have enlightened the world and furthered the race of men, are those who have made direct use of the book of the world.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • World
  • Men
  • Book

• I wish that we, as women, spent as much time on the well-being of our insides as we do with our looks on the outside.

  

  Cobie Smulders
  • Time
  • Women
  • Wish

• That's the nature of being a parent, Sabine has discovered. You'll love your children far more than you ever loved your parents, and -- in the recognition that your own children cannot fathom the depth of your love -- you come to understand the tragic, unrequited love of your own parents.

  

  Ursula Hegi
  • Children
  • Nature
  • Parents

• I come from down south, where vegetation does not know its place. Honeysuckle can work through cracks in your walls and strangle you while you sleep. Kudzu can completely shroud a house and a car parked in the yard in one growing season. Wisteria can lift a building off its foundation, and certain terrifying mints spread so rapidly that just the thought of them on a summer night can make your hair stand on end.

  

  Bailey White
  • House
  • Night
  • Sleep

• Hardest of all for Europeans to negotiate are traditional African religions, whose transactions with unseen powers are central to the running of life in many areas, the main weapon in the struggle against the forces of evil.

  

  Neil MacGregor
  • Life
  • Running
  • Evil

• Gardening is the greatest tonic and therapy a human being can have. Even if you have only a tiny piece of earth, you can create something beautiful, which we all have a great need for. If we begin by respecting plants, it's inevitable we'll respect people.

  

  Audrey Hepburn
  • Earth
  • Respect
  • Human being