Bette Davis Quotes

You mustn't miss the moment. There's only one first sailing into Rio harbor.

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• The very idea of marriage is basic to recognition as equals in our society; any status short of that is inferior, unjust, and unconstitutional.

  

  Ted Olson
  • Society
  • Marriage
  • Short

• Patents have a place in medical science - for new inventions that advance the state of knowledge.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Science
  • Knowledge
  • Medical

• If you look at total numbers in the working and middle class, men still on average make more than women.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Men
  • Women
  • Numbers

• Doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself and you see judges everywhere. But if you listen to the sound of your own voice, you can rise above doubt and judgment. And you can see forever.

  

  Nancy Lopez
  • Forever
  • Doubt
  • Yourself

• You learn to be comfortable with your body. It's fine and not a big deal.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • You
  • Body
  • Learn

• I have some women friends but I prefer men. Don't trust women. There is a built-in competition between women.

  

  Edna O'Brien
  • Men
  • Women
  • Friends

• Lenders, including major credit companies as well as payday lenders, have taken over the traditional role of the street-corner loan shark, charging the poor insanely high rates of interest.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • High
  • Taken
  • Interest

• I would never call myself a cancer survivor because I think it devalues those who do not survive. There's this whole mythology that people bravely battle their cancer and then they become survivors. Well, the ones who don't survive may be just as brave, you know, just as courageous, wonderful people.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • People
  • May
  • Myself

• Our nonviolent tactics are not as effective. We ask nicely for years and get nothing. Someone makes a threat, and it works.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk

• In July 1944, at the Mount Washington Hotel in the resort town of Bretton Woods in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, John Maynard Keynes and Harry Dexter White created the New World Order.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • World

• The needs of the nation are not necessarily convergent with the needs of the deadline satirist.

  

  Christopher Buckley

• In reality there is no such thing as an inflation of prices, relatively to gold. There is such a thing as a depreciated paper currency.

  

  Lysander Spooner
  • Reality
  • Gold

• Watching Jaws just scared the living daylights out of me when I was young. I know a lot of people my age who are still petrified of sharks because of that film.

  

  Ashley Scott
  • People
  • Age

• Education to me is the most important thing that we've got going in this country. I mean, a lot of my family are teachers. I was the recipient of a great public education, and I see that's one of the first things that we're going to go, 'What are we going to raise?' The ignorant masses.

  

  Craig T. Nelson
  • Great
  • Important
  • Country

• I don't enquire after your Affairs- -so whatever happens, I wash my hands on't-- It hath always been my Maxim, that one Friend should assist another- -But if you please--I'll take one of the Scarfs home with me. 'Tis always good to have something in Hand.

  

  John Gay
  • Good
  • Home
  • Friend

• Clique Maintenance: The need of one generation to see the generation following it as deficient so as to bolster its own collective ego: Kids today do nothing. They’re so apathetic. We used to go out and protest. All they do is shop and complain.

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • Kids
  • Today
  • Ego

• I know too that the only reason we have got any cooperation at all out of Iraq is because of the credible threat of force.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Force
  • Iraq
  • Cooperation

• A wife who is 85 percent faithful to her husband is not faithful at all. There is no such thing as part-time loyalty to Jesus Christ.

  

  Vance Havner
  • Time
  • Wife
  • Jesus

• The imagination is the workshop of the soul, where all the plans for individual achievement are shaped.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Soul
  • Imagination
  • Achievement

• I have moments where I miss my old self. But I think anyone can get caught up in what we used to have. But at the same time, we can choose to focus on the beauty of now.

  

  Steve Gleason
  • Focus
  • Miss
  • Caught

• Going from 'Shark Night' to 'Piranha,' a guy holding a fish on a stick in front of you that they're going to replace in post-production, it's a lot different than seeing this animatronic shark that, if you get caught up in the moment, looks, acts and you sometimes think could be real.

  

  Chris Zylka
  • Up
  • Different
  • Real

• Vain vision! when the changing world each day Sees some such lordly pleasance pass away; When the mere stripling knows my symbols all Worn tokes, heaven hypothetical, Nature indifferent, and the dreams of men Figments of longing which we must condemn. Yet keep these plants, O Man! a kinder time May yet be moved by them to better rhyme, Or moved, like me, to place his pleasure low, On the firm Earth, whence Men and Blossoms grow.

  

  Ruth Pitter
  • World
  • Death
  • Dream

• You mustn't miss the moment. There's only one first sailing into Rio harbor.

  

  Bette Davis
  • Miss
  • Sailing
  • Harbor