Lydia M. Child Quotes

The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos.

Lydia M. Child

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• I really like my doctors. Some of them I love. I trust them.

  

  Nancy Grace
  • Trust
  • Like
  • Doctors

• The idea was never for me to be a career bureaucrat or career technocrat; it was more about where I could implement ideas and reform programs.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Career
  • Me
  • Ideas

• Yes, The Persuaders, that was great fun because one of my favourite actors is Roger Moore.

  

  Val Guest
  • Great
  • Fun
  • Favourite

• When the Americans were trying to conquer the Navajos, they felt this need to capture Canyon de Chelly like it was the Navajo capital. It was a meeting place and a sanctuary of last refuge. To control Canyon de Chelly was to control the Navajo people.

  

  Hampton Sides
  • People
  • Trying
  • Control

• Yeah, but there's nobody who represents romance to me like Cary Grant.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • Me
  • Romantic
  • Nobody

• Sometimes, great collaboration is hard to nurture online, so doing so offline is the way to go.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Great
  • Doing
  • Collaboration

• I loved 'Pan's Labyrinth.' It transported me into another world. I like fantasy worlds; I love 'Lord of the Rings' as well, for that reason, because you really get to get out of reality and go somewhere else.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • World
  • Reason
  • Loved

• People attach too much importance to intangibles like heart, desire and clutch hitting.

  

  Nate Silver
  • People
  • Heart
  • Desire

• For the rich, it's not about getting more stuff. It's about having the freedom to make almost any decision you want.

  

  T. Harv Eker
  • Freedom
  • Decision
  • Rich

• I was an only child until I was 14, and there were no other kids around the area really. So I spent a lot of time on my own in the fields or by the lake, with just my imagination for company. I suppose I never wanted to let that part of me go.

  

  Jack Reynor
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Imagination

• I hope I don't have a big ego. I try to keep that in check. But I am a prideful person, I will say.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • Ego
  • Check
  • Prideful

• God has taken away the greatest man of his generation, for Dr. Livingstone stood alone.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • God
  • Alone
  • Taken

• There must be some deep-rooted anti-social principle in every man's nature, so dearly does he love aught that separates him from his kind ; or is it but one of the many shapes taken by that mental kaleidoscope, vanity, the varying and the glittering, the desire of distinction, sinking into that of notice?

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • Nature
  • Desire
  • Taken

• It’s tradition. I remove a head, I bring it backstage, I place it on Mr. Fertitta and Mr. White’s desk. 'Here you go boss. Another one done.' And then we discuss big business.

  

  Conor McGregor
  • Done
  • Business
  • Boss

• On November 28, 2016, Abdul Razak Ali Artan, an 18-year-old legal resident of the United States whose family was originally from Somalia, used a car to mow down a group of people at the Ohio State University.

  

  Peter Bergen
  • People
  • Family
  • Car

• I just find my creativity manifesting a bunch of different ways.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Different
  • Creativity

• Why do we use flash at all? Because photography is not the same as eyesight. We can see in low-light situations where cameras, dependent upon a physical process to record visual information, are half blind.

  

  David Hewson
  • Why
  • Light
  • Photography

• I've found that the more friends I have, the luckier I am.

  

  Johnny Mathis
  • Friends

• One of the big things about space exploration is that it is as expensive as it is complicated, and you need all the countries of the world to help if you want to accomplish big goals.

  

  Ellen Stofan
  • World
  • Help
  • Space

• I was brought up in a tenement house in a working district. We didn't even have a bathroom! We had a gaslight in the hallway and a black-and-white TV.

  

  Annie Lennox Eurythmics
  • Up
  • House
  • Black

• In the 20th century, the Muslim world created a vision of religious nationalism. Turkey, for example, had to be ethnically Turkish. Kurds, Armenians, other minorities didn't have a place in such a vision of a nation-state.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • World
  • Religious
  • Vision

• Think excitement, talk excitement, act out excitement, and you are bound to become an excited person.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Person
  • Excitement
  • Bound

• I can quit boxing now and practically go into any kind of business and I'll be successful just as well as I was in boxing.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Business
  • Successful
  • Boxing

• The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos.

  

  Lydia M. Child