Alan Paton Quotes

But when the dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is a secret.

Alan Paton

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• I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Fear
  • Myself
  • Goddess

• I get intrigued by a first lin and I write to find out why it means something to me. You make discoveries just the way the reader does, so you're simultaneously the writer and the reader.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Way
  • Me
  • Writer

• I love what I do. And why not be nice? I mean, I've seen people who work and they're apparently not enjoying it, and they're making sure everybody knows it.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • People
  • Work
  • Nice

• I think that everyone should be able to dribble. Everyone should be able to pass. Otherwise, why are you out there?

  

  Oscar Robertson
  • Why
  • Think
  • Everyone

• Nothing is really typical of my efforts... I'm simply casting about for better ways to crystallise and capture certain strong impressions (involving the elements of time, the unknown, cause and effect, fear, scenic and architectural beauty, and other seemingly ill-assorted things) which persist in clamouring for expression.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Time
  • Strong
  • Fear

• I have a ridiculous fear of sharks but I'd jump in the water in a second for an amazing role.

  

  Kate Mara
  • Fear
  • Amazing
  • Water

• Hard work is not why I have been successful as a model.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Work
  • Why
  • Model

• The growth in emissions is coming from the developing world. So if we are going to get out of this, it's going to come out of a process of cooperation and collaboration. That's why it really requires a paradigm shift.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • World
  • Why
  • Growth

• After I was assaulted in Egypt, I learned fear. I've just never been so scared in my life. I've never been so close to death.

  

  Lara Logan
  • Life
  • Death
  • Fear

• All the women that are first born daughters in my family are named Mary, but we've all been given nicknames. I don't know how or why that started, but I'm nicknamed after my great-grandmother, who was Mamie. No one ever calls me Mary, except only if my husband is very serious about something.

  

  Mamie Gummer
  • Great
  • Women
  • Family

• Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Why
  • Thoughts
  • Walk

• But it's the particularity of a place, the physical experience of being in a place, that makes it onto the page. That's why I don't just do library research. I very rarely write about somewhere I haven't been.

  

  Hari Kunzru
  • Why
  • Experience
  • Library

• We have global interests, potential threats from elsewhere, North Korea, Iran, Taiwan Straits and the like. We must be prepared for any future threat. That is why it is important that this be a transition year, 2006.

  

  Ike Skelton
  • Important
  • Why
  • Future

• Are you a Democrat because you're a union member? Then why, after eight years of Bill Clinton, does some Chinese guy in Guangdong province have your job?

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Why
  • Job
  • Guy

• I do things, and other people laugh at them. I rarely know what the joke is supposed to be or why they're laughing.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • People
  • Why
  • Know

• When I was out in Georgia doing photographs, I found myself trying to undo my own sense of composition. I'd think, 'Why do I want to take it like this? Is it because I want to take a beautiful picture?' It's quite hard to try and undo it.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Trying
  • Why
  • Beautiful

• As a matter of personal philosophy, I have generally said, 'Why not?' far more often than either 'Why?' or 'Not.'

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Why
  • Philosophy
  • Said

• Indians have very good engineering capabilities, and that is why, if an industry focuses on innovation, you will have a far greater chance of success, rather than the model which is based on just being a production machine.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Good
  • Why
  • Success

• Why should Scotland be stopped from suggesting to the English people that we join a new union under new terms? Let's not try to dominate one another. Let's be a collection, like being in the pub with a kitty. When we vote in Scotland, we vote one way, but the other country votes another way and we always end up with what they vote for.

  

  Eddi Reader
  • People
  • Up
  • Country

• I am a total beach person, and that's why I just love coming to Vizag. The city also reminds me of the peaceful defence colonies of my childhood.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Love
  • Why
  • City

• I do think there is much truth in the Young German idea that marriage is a shockingly immoral institution, as well as what we have long known it for - an extremely disagreeable one.

  

  Jane Welsh Carlyle
  • Long
  • Truth
  • Marriage

• Chicago actors and Chicago theater is some of the most authentic stuff that you will ever encounter, and I'm so proud to have come up from that. It's where I cut my teeth and where I found my passion for this work.

  

  Merle Dandridge
  • Passion
  • Proud
  • Chicago

• No I don't really write thinking about specific actors because it can get in the way a little bit.

  

  Lorene Scafaria
  • Thinking

• But when the dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is a secret.

  

  Alan Paton
  • Why
  • Fear
  • Secret