Lizzie Armitstead Quotes

I'm old-fashioned.

Lizzie Armitstead

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• But I like going to church. If you've been brought up in the Church of England, it feels like visiting an elderly relative. And I think it's important that part of the kids' education is knowing about the Bible.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Up
  • Important
  • Kids

• We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Freedom
  • Commitment

• As in any technological revolution, there will be winners and losers. On balance, everyone will come out ahead, although there will be particular companies that will not be able to cope with a new environment.

  

  Ralph Merkle
  • Environment
  • Balance
  • Revolution

• Love, and do what you like.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Love
  • You
  • Like

• Sometimes writing a novel is not unlike having a baby. You'd have to ask a female novelist to compare the pain.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Writing
  • Pain
  • Baby

• My first taste memory is pickle. Even as a kid, I was really weird. I liked chillis. I used to climb up the shelves in my grandmother's pantry. The pickle jar was kept right at the top. One time, I dropped the jar and it broke. I was totally busted.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Up
  • Time
  • Weird

• Our music attracts the people that we rap about and make music about, and they come out and actually do it.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • People
  • Music
  • Rap

• I love disappearing. That's what acting is. For me it's about putting on a persona, stepping into a pair of shoes. It's my face, but I'm using it as a tool for that spirit, that character.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • Character
  • Spirit
  • Acting

• Where there is love there is life.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Life
  • Love
  • For Her

• Every film is a puzzle really, from an editorial point of view.

  

  Walter Murch
  • View
  • Point Of View
  • Puzzle

• We didn't have rest days or weekends because we had to get ready as fast as possible, so we could beat the Americans, who were also racing to send a woman into space.

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • Space
  • Rest
  • Woman

• Don't assume that what we currently think is out there is the full story. Go after the dark matter, in whatever field you choose to explore.

  

  Nathan Wolfe
  • Think
  • Dark
  • Explore

• Encouraging people to believe in it was the most important thing of all. It's one of the reasons I was always uncomfortable whenever film crews came on the set to shoot things. I didn't want our make-believe to be exposed.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • People
  • Believe
  • Important

• One of my favorite cartoon characters is Snoopy. I love the way he sits and lies on his kennel and contemplates the great things of life.

  

  Jackie Tabick
  • Life
  • Way
  • Favorite

• Given the choice, children who don't want for anything will not save... We have an obligation as parents to give our children what they need. What they want we can give them as a special gift, or they can save their money for it.

  

  Barbara Coloroso
  • Children
  • Money
  • Parents

• I believe in large families: every woman should have at least three husbands.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Believe
  • Woman
  • Three

• You just have to be yourself and go full with confidence and be courageous.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • You
  • Confidence
  • Be Yourself

• Far from making peace, wars invariably serve as classrooms and laboratories where men and techniques and states of mind are prepared for the next war.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Men
  • Mind
  • War

• I think one's history and past is important at a certain time in your life, especially as an artist, just to try to hone in on that.

  

  Olivia d'Abo
  • Life
  • Time
  • Important

• This is the good and happy news, that Christ has paid for our sin, and through His suffering has redeemed us from eternal death. It is His kingdom and His ministry, to preach the Gospel to the poor; that is His purpose. For to the great and holy He cannot come. They do not wish to be counted sinners, and therefore do not need His Gospel.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Death
  • Christ
  • Sin

• Competition is a by-product of productive work, not its goal. A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

  

  Ayn Rand
  • Work
  • Desire
  • Competition

• Dancing is my therapy. I also try to meditate every morning and take several two-hour yoga classes a week at my favorite yoga studio, Urban Flow.

  

  Leila Janah
  • Morning
  • Yoga

• Americans are the friendliest people you will encounter, but they have few friends.

  

  Dinesh D'Souza
  • People
  • Friends

• I'm old-fashioned.

  

  Lizzie Armitstead