Lynn Coady Quotes

Grownups, as a rule, should always be ready to pay for their own meals - or else ready to graciously accept their date's insistence on paying. The point is, one doesn't sit there batting one's eyelashes, fully expecting someone else to claim the bill.

Lynn Coady

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• Psychiatry causes so much death.

  

  Kate Millett
  • Death
  • Causes
  • Psychiatry

• Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Man

• What is wine? It is the grape present in another form; its essence is there, though the fruit which produced it grew thousands of miles away, and perished years ago. So the object of many a tender thought may be spiritually present, in defiance of space - and fond recollections cherished in defiance of time.

  

  Samuel Lover
  • Time
  • May
  • Space

• Politics is a necessary evil, or a necessary annoyance, a necessary conundrum.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Evil
  • Politics
  • Annoyance

• The genius which runs to madness is no longer genius.

  

  Otto Weininger
  • Genius
  • Madness
  • Which

• In 2001, I was being treated for breast cancer, and I was pretty sure I was going to recover.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Pretty
  • Cancer
  • Being

• You can't make a direct comparison between middle-class African Americans and middle-class white Americans, affluent African Americans and affluent white Americans. The amount of wealth tends to be less.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • You
  • Wealth
  • White

• Sometimes you can find peace of mind by transferring yourself to different situations. They're just reminders to stay... calm.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Different
  • Mind
  • Peace

• We may not know the whole story in our lifetime.

  

  Earl Warren
  • May
  • Know
  • Story

• That was a major goal for me - to be able to reach and encourage more women, to encourage them to express themselves and be what they want to be. People get very trapped where they are.

  

  Vera Wang
  • People
  • Women
  • Goal

• Being engaged is absolutely a time to cherish!

  

  Camila Alves
  • Time
  • Being
  • Cherish

• There is a lot of territory out there still to explore TV-wise, show-wise, movie-wise, everything.

  

  Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
  • Movie
  • Wise
  • Everything

• I wanted to really ingrain myself in the culture and the people. And I apologize about having an allergy to dairy products that gives me some irritable bowels, but other than that, I mean, I've embraced just about everything else Wisconsin - especially when it comes to sports, but also the people and the interactions with our fans.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • People
  • Culture
  • Myself

• Society just has a way of inhibiting you, which is good and bad.

  

  Barbara Park
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Society

• My own death threats have declined considerably.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Death
  • Own
  • My Own

• 'Hey, what's the name of that nice young girl, my loyalist supporter?' I said, Mr. President, her name is Annie Ferrer. 'Will you give that girl my regards and kisses?' he asked. I said yes, of course-it was really strange.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Girl
  • Nice

• Ἢ οὐκ οἶσθ' ἀκριβῶς ὢν περισσόφρων ὅτιγλώσσῃ ματαίᾳ ζημία προστρίβεται.

  

  Aeschylus

• 'It must be a real one-horse town.'Auger shook her head as she lit a cigarette. 'It has wild ambitions of becoming a one-horse town.'

  

  Alastair Reynolds
  • Real
  • She
  • Horse

• At any one time language is a kaleidoscope of styles, genres and dialects.

  

  David Crystal
  • Time

• I do not remember a time since I have been capable of loving books that I have not loved Shakespeare.

  

  Helen Keller
  • Book
  • Remember
  • Capable

• Great work is always shunned at first.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Great Work

• One of my mottos not only just in skating but in life in general and I try to enforce it as well, is like no regrets and just like going for it.

  

  Kristi Yamaguchi
  • Life

• It's true that football is a job, and one works to earn money, but when there are so many feelings involved, it's hard to change clubs just to earn a bit more cash. I respect every player and their decisions, but that's my feeling.

  

  Diego Godin
  • Money
  • Job
  • True

• Grownups, as a rule, should always be ready to pay for their own meals - or else ready to graciously accept their date's insistence on paying. The point is, one doesn't sit there batting one's eyelashes, fully expecting someone else to claim the bill.

  

  Lynn Coady