Vera Brittain Quotes
Babies are a nuisance, of course. But so does everything seem to be that is worth while – husbands and books and committees and being loved and everything. We have to choose between barren ease and rich unrest – or rather, one does not choose.Vera Brittain
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I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.
Abigail Adams -
I want people to get over the stigma about hemp. These seeds can't make you high, but they will make you feel good.
Ziggy Marley -
Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
Kara DioGuardi -
It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
Dag Hammarskjold -
Dancing is the last sport with no sponsor.
Carine Roitfeld -
It's pretty simple, pretty obvious: that people's first impressions of people are really a big mistake.
Vincent D'Onofrio
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The thing I find frustrating about rock music is, how different can you make an acoustic drum kit sound, an electric guitar and vocals? It's very stuck, whereas with electronic music, new sounds are being created.
Flume -
You know what black hatred women feel toward me as soon as they see me, until I return inside my shell, they use every possible weapon. As soon as a generous man tries to help me out, a woman is here to hold his arm and prevent him from acting.
Camille Claudel -
You need the audience to go on the ride with you. You can't just isolate them.
Adam McKay -
The nightmare of materialism, which has turned the life of the universe into an evil, useless game, is not yet past; it holds the awakening soul still in its grip.
Wassily Kandinsky -
One of the enduring problems with certain societies in the world - and this is certainly true of a lot of places in the Middle East - is that the capacity for self-governance and self-organizing just isn't there. It has to do with history.
P. J. O'Rourke -
To mistrust science and deny the validity of scientific method is to resign your job as a human. You'd better go look for work as a plant or wild animal.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I really appreciate family. I really can't imagine life without them!
Ice Cube -
There is hope and a kind of beauty in there somewhere, if you look for it.
H. R. Giger -
When I grew up, I thought I was Jewish. Now I don't consider myself Jewish. I consider myself a Kabbalist.
Yehuda Berg -
Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
Rainer Maria Rilke -
I have a lot of men who will say to me, 'I don't read books by women, but I like you.'
Karin Slaughter -
We the voice of the young world. We the voice of the people.
Quavo Migos
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I think it's an essential fact for any performer or artist to fail as poignantly as they can succeed.
Nick Cave The Birthday Party -
Cable news wants you to believe that America is red versus blue. I would argue America is way more purple than it looks.
Alexandra Pelosi -
It's not an accident that successful people read more books.
Seth Godin -
“Books are precious things and cannot be selected like tinned peas in Tesco.”
Colin Bateman -
I think of an intellectual as just being bookish, being interested in history books, utopian ideas, that kind of thing.
Richard Rorty -
Babies are a nuisance, of course. But so does everything seem to be that is worth while – husbands and books and committees and being loved and everything. We have to choose between barren ease and rich unrest – or rather, one does not choose.
Vera Brittain