Louisa May Alcott Quotes

I love my gallant captain with all my heart and soul and might, and never will desert him, while God lets us be together. Oh, Mother, I never knew how much like heaven this world could be, when two people love and live for one another!

Louisa May Alcott

• People
• World
• God
• Live
• Heart
• Together
• Mother
• Soul
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• I have worked hard and learnt that I have to make a decision - whether I am going to conform and protect myself or not. I chose not to.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Work
  • Decision
  • Protect

• Novelists should be like scientists, dissecting the cadaver.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Like
  • Should
  • Novelists

• When you lose, you're more motivated. When you win, you fail to see your mistakes and probably no one can tell you anything.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Win
  • Mistakes
  • Lose

• I love diving into different skins, skins that make me feel deep emotions.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Feel
  • Emotions
  • Make

• A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Life
  • Great
  • High

• My dad used to give me a lot of spankings. Anything I did wrong, he was on me. I was raised by a strict disciplinarian. He kind of laid down the law.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Law
  • Me
  • Dad

• I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Trust

• I've been into every doo-wop there is. I think I went to the university of doo-wop-ology.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Think
  • Been
  • University

• I live in Hollywood, California. It's absolutely nothing like Absaroka County, Wyoming. For me, it's a great escape and I really enjoy it.

  

  Bailey Chase
  • Great
  • Me
  • Enjoy

• I was on various anti-depressants, but not for long - I didn't function very well on them. I felt sort of flattened out.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Long
  • Very
  • Function

• I don't read 'chick lit,' fantasy or science fiction but I'll give any book a chance if it's lying there and I've got half an hour to kill.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Book
  • Science
  • Chance

• And yet it moves.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Moves

• I support capital punishment. But let's be clear: It's a decision for each state to make.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Support
  • Decision
  • Clear

• I don't have so many things in the fashion world that interest me. It's probably because I am so deeply into it. Often when you go very deep into something, you also discover what it's about, and you understand it better. With the art world, I still have a lot of curiosity.

  

  Raf Simons
  • World
  • Art
  • Fashion

• The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to me so often in childhood, that anything worth doing is worth doing well.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Childhood

• Great entrepreneurs focus intensely on an opportunity where others see nothing. This focus and intensity helps to eliminate wasted effort and distractions. Most companies die from indigestion rather than starvation, i.e., companies suffer from doing too many things at the same time rather than doing too few things very well.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Time
  • Great
  • Opportunity

• I think that anybody coming out and saying, 'This is who I am, and let me show it to you...' is good for the world.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • World
  • Show

• I just go out there every game and try to be the best I can be for our team.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Game
  • Team
  • Best

• Probably people always feel that they are living in a time of transition, but we can hardly be mistaken perhaps in thinking that this is an era of particularly momentous change, rapid and proceeding at an ever quickening rate.

  

  Emily Greene Balch
  • People
  • Time
  • Thinking

• I believe, from reading biographies, that the great musicians have also been great cooks: Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, Max Roach. I think I've worked out why this is - unsociable hours, plus general creativity.

  

  Jamie Cullum
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Why

• Here's the thing: the unit of reverence in Europe is the family, which is why a child born today of unmarried parents in Sweden has a better chance of growing up in a house with both of his parents than a child born to a married couple in America. Here we revere the couple, there they revere the family.

  

  Elizabeth Gilbert
  • Up
  • Family
  • Why

• With Francis Bacon, Vico continuously asserts the claims of grammar as true science precisely because it has not yielded to specialism and method.

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • True
  • Science

• Well, the truth is that a lot of people lie about their health, they lie about the finances, they lie about things at work, they lie about things.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • People
  • Work
  • Truth

• I love my gallant captain with all my heart and soul and might, and never will desert him, while God lets us be together. Oh, Mother, I never knew how much like heaven this world could be, when two people love and live for one another!

  

  Louisa May Alcott
  • People
  • World
  • God