Jane Austen Quotes

She was happy, she knew she was happy, and knew she ought to be happy.

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• The truth is, I've been on a team my whole life. I'm the youngest of 7, so I've been training to be an athlete my whole life.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Team

• One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Important
  • Question
  • Questions

• Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Different
  • Women

• If you're not kind, then you won't be attractive to me personally because that spirit shines through and makes people attractive.

  

  Madeline Zima
  • People
  • Kind
  • Spirit

• Humility is a good estate; founded thereon, the whole spiritual edifice grows into a holy temple in the Lord. Through humility, some have even possessed the gates of their enemies. For which of the virtues is so mighty to subdue the pride of demons and the tyranny of men?

  

  Saint Bernard
  • Good
  • Men
  • Spiritual

• My son Darrel could recite 'Straight Outta Compton' at two years old. He loved it! You can expose your kids to anything as long as you sit there and explain it to them.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Long
  • Kids
  • Son

• Our emerging workforce is not interested in command-and-control leadership. They don't want to do things because I said so; they want to do things because they want to do them.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
  • Want
  • Control
  • Leadership

• I grew up in a high school where it was very conservative, and I felt like people disapproved of me, and I felt like an outsider.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • People
  • Up
  • School

• You will encounter many distractions and many temptations to put your goal aside: The security of a job, a wife who wants kids, whatever. But if you hang in there, always following your vision, I have no doubt you will succeed.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • Job
  • Kids
  • Wife

• Even an animal, if you show genuine affection, gradually trust develops... If you always showing bad face and beating, how can you develop friendship?

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Bad
  • Trust
  • Animal

• I can remember the first time I ever recorded my vocals on to a beat. Cat Coore from Third World - a legendary Jamaican band - had a little demo set up at his house. I'm very good friends with his eldest son, Shiah, who plays with me now. So we were rhyming over a track by the dancehall artist Peter Metro. I've still got it somewhere.

  

  Damian Marley
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• I had written in another draft a completely different kind of fight, but they said they couldn't afford to shoot it. They needed a fight scene, though, so I was told to put a fight scene in, but not the one I had written.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Different
  • Kind
  • Fight

• Remember: You are the common denominator in all your relationship problems. Wherever you go, your pesky repeated issues go - until you shed a blazing light of insight upon them.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Remember
  • Light
  • Relationship

• All I can do is leave it in God's hands and hope that my fans feel where I'm coming from.

  

  Aaliyah
  • God
  • Hope
  • Hands

• I sort of fall apart in terms of stamina after about 25 minutes!

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Fall
  • Minutes
  • Stamina

• Every day, you have to get up with new energy and new ideas to contribute to pushing the organization forward.

  

  Abagail Johnson
  • Up
  • Energy
  • Day

• I believe in my music.

  

  Ralph Stanley
  • Music
  • Believe
  • I Believe

• I want girls to feel the confidence you get from being smart. They get so many messages that tell them the most important thing is to be beautiful.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Important
  • Beautiful
  • Confidence

• Instead of a few hundreds of thousands of men meeting each other in war, millions would now meet, and modern weapons would multiply manifold the power of destruction.

  

  Edward Grey
  • Men
  • Power
  • War

• Me, I walk along and feel quietly defensive, a recluse in the Land of We. That's quite the loaded word, 'we.'

  

  Caroline Knapp

• For me the best thing about winning an award is when the people cheer for your win. When you can see that the people are really happy that you are winning something, that's the most reward thing in the world.

  

  Trevor George Smith Jr.
  • People
  • World
  • Happy

• For a sunrise or a sunset, you're manic or you’re depressed.Will you ever feel ok?

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • Sunset
  • Sunrise

• A lot of my role is advocacy, and as a scientist, you're an advocate, too, because you are coming up with a theory and having to convince your fellow scientists that you're right.

  

  Ellen Stofan
  • Up

• She was happy, she knew she was happy, and knew she ought to be happy.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Happy