Audrey Hepburn Quotes

You have to look at yourself objectively. Analyze yourself like an instrument. You have to be absolutely frank with yourself. Face your handicaps, don't try to hide them. Instead, develop something else.

Audrey Hepburn

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• The wretched and miserable would rise into plenty of joy and happiness as soon as they climb the steps of my mosque.

  

  Sai Baba
  • Joy
  • Happiness
  • Climb

• Any reflection about poetry should begin, or end, with this question: who and how many read poetry books?

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Question
  • Poetry
  • End

• What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Never
  • Plant
  • Weed

• I think I can regard myself as a political decision-maker.

  

  Harri Holkeri
  • Think
  • Political
  • Myself

• I love being a mother. I think it's the best thing I've ever done, and I personally feel that it's had a very positive effect on my work. I think it's an encouraging force for creativity, it feeds creativity - it did for me, certainly.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Love
  • Mother
  • Feel

• My stories are not Christianized at all. I don't even have any Christians in my stories. What they are, are stories about ordinary people going through extraordinary circumstances in which I'm exploring truth. How light overcomes darkness in a way that's unmistakable to anyone who has any kind of faith.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • People
  • Truth
  • Faith

• What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us left.

  

  Oscar Levant
  • World
  • More
  • Humility

• When you seek the presence of your creative Spirit and are filled with passion about virtually everything you undertake, you'll successfully remove the roadblocks from your life and enjoy the active presence of Spirit.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Passion
  • Creative

• I don't want any yes – men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their job.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Men
  • Job
  • Truth

• It's like with feminism. We talk a lot about feminism meaning complete freedom, and for some people, that means, like, 'Free the nipple!' But there's another end of the feminist spectrum, and that's where people like me are.

  

  Yuna
  • People
  • Free
  • Freedom

• Conductors' careers are made for the most part with 'Romantic' music. 'Classic' music eliminates the conductor; we do not remember him in it.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Music
  • Remember
  • Romantic

• Was anybody else bothered by the sight of mine-resistant vehicles and guns pointed at unarmed men in Ferguson?

  

  Rand Paul
  • Men
  • Sight
  • Guns

• We all have those things that even in the midst of stress and disarray, they energize us and give us renewed strength and purpose. These are our passions.

  

  Adam Braun
  • Purpose
  • Stress
  • Strength

• What's missing in the musical theater is producers willing to nurture new work, raise the money and put it on.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Work
  • Money
  • Missing

• I think there's a lot of anesthesia being - that's been pumped into American culture, the mass media television, various forms of entertainment, and the illusion of wealth that we now understand to be an illusion as well as the illusion that America is a world power.

  

  Parker Palmer
  • World
  • Power
  • American

• Prophesy to the wind, to the wind only for only The wind will listen.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Wind

• People who barely know the two of you assume you are close friends; people who know both of you intimately suspect you profoundly hate each other.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • People
  • Friends
  • Hate

• Early in the spring of 1750, in the village of Juffure, four days upriver from the coast of The Gambia, West Africa, a manchild was born to Omoro and Binta Kinte.

  

  Alex Haley
  • Spring

• I drank too much, only champagne.

  

  Johnny Mathis
  • Champagne

• Congress should pass legislation to remove from the federal courts their jurisdiction to hear these outrageous challenges to the Ten Commandments and the Pledge of Allegiance.

  

  Phyllis Schlafly

• If we want happiness, I think we should follow classic Greek wisdom and live with areté. The word directly translates as 'excellence' or 'virtue,' but has a deeper meaning — something closer to 'expressing the highest version of ourselves.' When we're showing up fully moment to moment, there's no room for regret/anxiety/disillusionment, just a whole lot of happiness. Here's to getting our areté on!

  

  Brian Francis Johnson AC/DC
  • Thinking
  • Moments
  • Regret

• My formula for happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Happiness
  • Goal
  • Formula

• You have to look at yourself objectively. Analyze yourself like an instrument. You have to be absolutely frank with yourself. Face your handicaps, don't try to hide them. Instead, develop something else.

  

  Audrey Hepburn