Louisa May Alcott Quotes
It was not a fashionable place, but even among the pleasant people there, the girls made few friends, preferring to live for one another.Louisa May Alcott
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A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
Babasaheb -
Both World War II and the subsequent Cold War gave America's involvement in world affairs a clear focus. The objectives of foreign policy were relatively easy to define, and they could be imbued with high moral content.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it's OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink.
Karl Lagerfeld -
The search for knowledge is a long and difficult task.
Fabiola Gianotti -
There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
Edmund Phelps -
Celine Dion is my major inspiration.
Jackie Evancho
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My mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man.
Yayoi Kusama -
It was the best route to get folks to understand segregation fast. Civil rights and women's rights had a clear history. Making the transition to rights for people with disabilities became easier because we had the history of the other two.
Major Owens -
A lot of actors know they want to be actors a little bit earlier on. I didn't even really start studying until I was about 22.
Mahershala Ali -
People should have literary and cultural taste and should not bomb hotels.
Upamanyu Chatterjee -
Happiness is a mysterious concept. It seems to work best as futurity: at that point I will be happy, et cetera. I feel like I experience small pieces of joy day to day.
Rachel Kushner -
Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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My dad said, 'Cam, you can make this situation a dream or you can make this situation a nightmare.' That struck a fire under me. That was my drive.
Cam Newton -
I feel very, very lucky that George has got a little sister.
Kate Middleton -
I don't get tired of my work because you can't get tired of something you love and enjoy! But, having said that, I wish to get a break of four to five days, or at least three days, switch off my cell phone, and do what I want to.
Rakul Preet Singh -
The movie I've watched a million times is 'A Face in the Crowd,' directed by Elia Kazan, starring Andy Griffith and Patricia Neal. I first saw this movie, I guess I was in my early 20s. I'd never heard of it, and somebody told me about it, and I watched it and was just completely jaw-droppingly shocked at how current it was.
Callie Khouri -
I am pretty hard on myself. But I think that's how it has to be if you want to keep growing as an actor.
Gattlin Griffith -
Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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Things that appear on the front page of the newspaper as 'fact' are far more dangerous than the games played by a novelist, and can lead to wars.
E. L. Doctorow -
All of us wish we'd had perfect childhoods, with a mother and father who modeled ideal parental attitudes and taught us to internalize the tenets of self-love. Many of us, however, did not.
Marianne Williamson -
It's on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.
Claude Monet -
It's good to actually cry. Trust me, I've had a lot of practice over the years!
Natalia Kills -
The one big strategic error - which was a political error and an economic error of grand proportions - was the prescription drug bill.
David Keene -
It was not a fashionable place, but even among the pleasant people there, the girls made few friends, preferring to live for one another.
Louisa May Alcott