Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes

Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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• I've always enjoyed poor health.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Health
  • Always
  • Poor

• Acting was something I always wanted to try. I just didn't know how, or I didn't know when the door was gonna be open for me to try it. But it finally opened up for me when I did 'Turn It Up', and ever since then I've been in love with doing films.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Up
  • Love
  • Acting

• If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • May
  • Home
  • You

• Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naive.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Children
  • Think
  • Parents

• I have a funny family, but none of them are remotely in show business.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Family
  • Business
  • Funny

• I know that I am an excellent live performer. I know that I have spent my life paying attention to my art form, developing my art form, worrying about my show and what it is I'm bringing to people, making sure that I give them a fine trade. They get a two-hour show, sometimes a three-hour show, for a decent price.

  

  Gallagher
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• Having achieved and accomplished love... man... has become himself, his tale is told.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Love
  • Man
  • Achieved

• At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city.

  

  Nathaniel Parker Willis
  • City
  • Present
  • Thousand

• I know I'm profane. And outspoken.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Know
  • Outspoken
  • Profane

• Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Bad
  • Beauty
  • Ugly

• Museums are western inventions where the rich and the powerful or the government and the state tend to exhibit the signs and symbol and images of their culture.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Culture
  • Powerful
  • Rich

• A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in their way.

  

  Fisher Ames
  • Way
  • Democracy
  • Carry

• I feel like I've been the star of my own show for a while now. I was always putting on shows as a kid, and obviously, my household was really creative.

  

  Mamie Gummer
  • Always
  • Star
  • Creative

• Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • Human
  • Chaos

• My forte is awkwardness.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Awkwardness
  • Forte

• Down the mine I dreamed of cricket; I bowled imaginery balls in the dark; I sent the stumps spinning and heard them rattling in the tunnels. No mishap was going to stop me from bowling in the real game, especially this one.

  

  Harold Larwood
  • Game
  • Me
  • Dark

• I think all our characters are an amalgam of people we know in our world and ourselves.

  

  Zoe Lister-Jones
  • People
  • World
  • Know

• If I'm in danger then it's usually my fault and it's up to me to get myself out of it. I am not in it just to get an adrenalin rush. No way!

  

  Kate Adie
  • Danger
  • Fault
  • Adrenalin

• Inexperience can be overcome, ignorance can be enlightened, but prejudice will destroy you.

  

  Mercedes Lackey
  • Ignorance
  • Overcoming
  • Enlightened

• NASA asked me to create meals for the space shuttle. Thai chicken was the favorite. I flew in a fake space shuttle, but I have no desire to go into space after seeing the toilet.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Desire
  • Space
  • Create

• It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.

  

  Vance Havner
  • Men
  • Wish
  • Better

• Why should we try for space travel? It cannot be a substance of any kind that can be expected to pay. It can only be something intangible, not involving haulage, which is at the same time more valuable. There is something like that: Knowledge.

  

  Willy Ley
  • Trying
  • Kind
  • Valuable

• There's an idea called "gray man", in the security business, that I find interesting. They teach people to dress unobtrusively. Chinos instead of combat pants, and if you really need the extra pockets, a better design conceals them. They assume, actually, that the bad guys will shoot all the guys wearing combat pants first, just to be sure.

  

  William Gibson
  • People
  • Men
  • Guy

• Progress is the victory of a new thought over old superstitions.

  

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Progress
  • Victory
  • Superstitions