Louisa May Alcott Quotes

Suppose I broke away and left you, or made it impossible for you to stay. That I was base and false; in every way unworthy of your love, and it was clearly right for you to go, what would you do then?

Louisa May Alcott

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• Is literature more important than hurting people? You can't argue that. You can't say it. It's impossible.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgaard
  • People
  • Important
  • Literature

• I retweet Amnesty International tweets a lot. It isn't just, 'This person is incarcerated unjustly.' It's also, 'This person was just released.' Those are the victories we work toward, so if we don't inform people of the victories, it does become doom and gloom.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • People
  • Work
  • Victories

• If we can reduce the cost and improve the quality of medical technology through advances in nanotechnology, we can more widely address the medical conditions that are prevalent and reduce the level of human suffering.

  

  Ralph Merkle
  • Technology
  • Quality
  • Suffering

• I may be wrong, but the essential illustrative nature of most documentary photography, and the worship of the object per se, in our best nature photography, is not enough to satisfy the man of today, compounded as he is of Christ, Freud, and Marx.

  

  Aaron Siskind
  • May
  • Nature
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• I like me better naked. I don't mean that in a vain way... When you put clothes on, you immediately put a character on. Clothes are adjectives, they are indicators. When you don't have any clothes on, it's just you, raw, and you can't hide.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Character
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  • Better

• I adore Quentin Tarantino. The 'Kill Bill' series is my favorite.

  

  Madison Davenport
  • Favorite
  • Series
  • Adore

• I don't think of my life as a cliche, but I'm a cliche eccentric. Complete with a strange name - I mean, who's named Val? How many Vals do you know? I mean, really?

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Name

• To communicate the truths of history is an act of hope for the future.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • History
  • Hope
  • Future

• You should allow professors to become really outstanding academicians, recognised worldwide, and you should reward them.

  

  Najib Razak
  • You
  • Reward
  • Professors

• 'The Master' is a wonderful film, honestly, and the actors, Joaquin Phoenix and Phillip Seymour Hoffman, are incredible.

  

  Laetitia Casta
  • Film
  • Master
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• I can count on one hand how many people I trust.

  

  Frances Bean Cobain
  • People
  • Hand
  • Trust

• Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so I can have a word with him?

  

  Zhuangzi
  • Man
  • Words
  • I Can

• Characters that are not the norm or a bit out of the ordinary are always a challenge as an actress. You learn more by using different tools for those type of characters. They are always much more fun to play and much more interesting. They take you places that you wouldn't necessarily go in your everyday life.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • Life
  • Different
  • Fun

• The loss of consciousness for me was never any great loss.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Great

• Play me no plays.

  

  Samuel Foote

• He will have true glory who despises it.

  

  Livy
  • True

• The pose of innocence is as mandatory as the ability to eat banquet food and endure the scourging of the press.

  

  Lewis H. Lapham
  • Food

• It's all about communication and a dialogue between individuals - get rid of the labels, get rid of the shame, get rid of the stigmas and just be your most authentic self.

  

  Matt Bomer
  • Communication

• I absolutely get thrills from taking on these big guys and recognizing how, behind all their power, they are so empty. I just keep going at it. Each of these balloons does deflate. I’ve seen a lot of balloons get deflated in my life.

  

  Vandana Shiva
  • Life
  • Power

• I just plug in and let go.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Let Go
  • Plug

• I'm not shy, not reclusive, not any of those things, but the idea of a day in front of me when I have nothing to do, is just, oh what pleasure!

  

  Linda Grant

• Yeah, I came down wrong. But we've got a game tomorrow and we've got to come to play.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Game
  • Play

• I don't like clothes that constrict. The idea is that they should accompany and help you. There's nothing superficial about getting dressed. Clothes can give you self-confidence and help you be yourself.

  

  Christophe Lemaitre
  • Help
  • Yourself
  • Clothes

• Suppose I broke away and left you, or made it impossible for you to stay. That I was base and false; in every way unworthy of your love, and it was clearly right for you to go, what would you do then?

  

  Louisa May Alcott