Nadine Gordimer Quotes

From Ernest Hemingway's stories, I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.

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• When man possesses a good, sound body that does not overpower him nor disturb the equilibrium in him, he possesses a divine gift. In short, a good constitution facilitates the rule of the soul over the body, but it is not impossible to conquer a bad constitution by training.

  

  Maimonides
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Soul

• It is easy to see what many people, women especially, admire about Sarah Palin. Here is a mother of five who can see the bright side of having a child with Down syndrome and still find the time and energy to govern the state of Alaska.

  

  Sam Harris
  • People
  • Time
  • Women

• Marriage has always been a state and local issue.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Always
  • Marriage
  • Issue

• That is where consensus-building begins-with the idea that you have your own truth, but that the negotiator on the other side of the table has his own truth as well.

  

  Harri Holkeri
  • Truth
  • Idea
  • Table

• I'm not a celebrity trainer. I don't have my own line of DVDs, but I'm a fighter and have everything to prove.

  

  Cara Castronuova
  • Celebrity
  • Prove
  • My Own

• I'm a comedian who got into movies, so I don't really think of myself as an actor.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Movies

• All of the songs my grandparents and parents listened to are called boleros - they're all love songs. They're about giving your heart to a person. It's a culture that is so romantic and passionate, and that's something that I'm very proud of. We grew up with nothing, so we just want to live a life full of love.

  

  Camila Cabello Fifth Harmony
  • Life
  • Up
  • Live

• For a writer, life is always too short to write. I will just try my best during what remains of my life.

  

  Cao Yu
  • Life
  • Best
  • Short

• It's not government that creates jobs; it's small business. Our job is to make sure they have the access to capital, the access to contracting opportunities, and the help, advice and mentoring that they need to go out and be successful.

  

  Karen Mills
  • Business
  • Job
  • Help

• I admire my boss, Lorne Michaels. He never stops producing. I think, for him, comedy is a tool of compassion, a way of rallying people together and saying, 'Guys, isn't the world bonkers? Aren't we all just trying our best?' There's a tenderness in everything he does.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • People
  • World
  • Trying

• When I was growing up in Iraq, there was an unbroken belief in progress and a great sense of optimism. It was a moment of nation building.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Up
  • Great
  • Growing

• My main focus is to help people through music.

  

  Candice Glover
  • People
  • Music
  • Help

• I am unboreable in the great outdoors.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Outdoors
  • Unboreable

• After reading and studying and getting in touch with the amount of information that I had while I was researching to play Pablo, it just reinforced the idea that I had that the war on drugs is a big flop.

  

  Wagner Moura
  • War
  • Reading
  • Information

• America in particular imposes an horrendous burden on the world. We have this wonderful standard of living but it comes at enormous cost.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • World
  • America
  • Living

• Only in Washington does a decrease in the proposed increase equal a spending cut.

  

  Larry Elder
  • Equal
  • Only
  • Washington

• Winning is about heart, not just legs. It's got to be in the right place.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • Heart
  • Winning
  • Place

• What I'm working is for peace on ground between Israelis and Palestinians through business, through economy, through quality of life.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Life
  • Business
  • Peace

• In the garment trades, on the other hand, the presence of a body of the disfranchised, of the weak and young, undoubtedly contributes to the economic weakness of these trades.

  

  Florence Kelley
  • Hand
  • Body
  • Weakness

• I can think and play stuff in classical music that possibly violinists who didn't have access to other types of music could never do. It means I'm more flexible within classical music, to be a servant to the composer.

  

  Nigel Kennedy
  • Composer
  • Classical Music
  • Violinist

• One thing that really drew me to him the first time I saw him play was his leadership ability within the team.

  

  John McCormack
  • Time
  • Leadership
  • Ability

• It was seriously just a name. They didn’t tell you what to do. They didn’t tell you how they wanted the character to be - nothing. You went in to audition for this character name and that was it. When I started, before I came onto the set, I went to Gene Roddenberry and said: hey, what do you want from this guy? Who is he? And being as smart as he is, he said: don’t listen to what you’ve heard or read or seen in the past, nothing. Just make the character your own. And that’s what I did.

  

  Michael Dorn
  • Character
  • Smart
  • Said

• Raising self-centered kids is not good for society, but it's also not good for their own mental health to be completely self-absorbed.

  

  William Damon
  • Health
  • Centered
  • Absorbed

• From Ernest Hemingway's stories, I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • Listen
  • Within
  • Unsaid