Marie Stopes Quotes

An impersonal and scientific knowledge of the structure of our bodies is the surest safeguard against prurient curiosity and lascivious gloating.

Marie Stopes

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• Curiosity
• Structure
• Bodies

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• I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.

  

  Oren Peli
  • Learning
  • Challenge
  • Luck

• An egg white omelet with vegetables is one of my favorite breakfasts.

  

  Gabriela Isler
  • White
  • Favorite
  • Egg

• As a reward of their clean living and good habits these great stars have been able to withstand the rigorous test of stamina and physical exertion and have thus successfully extended their most remarkable careers over a period of many strenuous years.

  

  Major Taylor
  • Good
  • Great
  • Period

• How lucky are we to have Naomi Watts and Sean Penn playing us? We've seen the final cut now a couple times, and the scenes with the marriage fraying at the edges are still very difficult to watch. However, our hope was that no matter your political persuasion, you're taken with the idea that it's important to hold power in check.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Important
  • Power
  • Hope

• Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Dark
  • Ocean
  • Without

• I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • World
  • Family
  • Love

• Nashville, I think, for me, personally, would be where I want to live and work. L.A. is a whole other world and has a whole other vibe to it, so I would like to come out here for work for a couple of months, but L.A. is just not really my scene, per se.

  

  Caleb Johnson
  • World
  • Work
  • Live

• China is a country, still, of great contrast. While hundreds of millions of people are part of the middle class and yearn for things made in America - American brands, movies, music - there are other hundreds of millions of people throughout China who are living on the equivalent of one U.S. dollar a day.

  

  Gary Locke
  • People
  • Great
  • Music

• I've got ten pairs of trainers. That's one for every day of the week.

  

  Samantha Fox
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Week

• In my early 20s, I didn't even know what the Groundlings was. I had no idea. But I know how to break down a script and work on the character.

  

  Rachael Harris
  • Work
  • Character
  • Down

• I'm annoying to be around because I keep twitching.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Because
  • Keep
  • Annoying

• I would like to champion diverse forms like graphic novels and works told in verse and diverse writers and illustrators and diverse authors as well.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Like
  • Champion
  • Well

• It is totally unacceptable that there are countries with no paediatric cardiac surgeries.

  

  Magdi Yacoub
  • Countries
  • Unacceptable

• I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.

  

  Gabrielle Aplin
  • Love
  • Crowds
  • Festivals

• It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Character
  • Book
  • Author

• Another thing that's quite different in writing a book as a practicing newspaperman is that if you look at what you've written the next morning and you think you didn't get it quite right, you can fix it.

  

  Adam Clymer
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Book

• These days... it's all vanilla sex for me.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • Me
  • Sex
  • Days

• In the Senate, you can become one of the nation's leading voices on the issues.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • You
  • Nation
  • Become

• A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

  

  Margaret Mead
  • Men
  • Women
  • City

• It is both an honour and a privilege to be asked to lead NBC News. The power of the brand, the scale of the legacy, the depth of the talent all make this organisation truly great.

  

  Deborah Turness
  • Great
  • Power
  • Legacy

• The open society, the unrestricted access to knowledge, the unplanned and uninhibited association of men for its furtherance - these are what may make a vast, complex, ever growing, ever changing, ever more specialized and expert technological world, nevertheless a world of human community.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • World
  • Men
  • May

• We played against each other like puppets, swearing you got pull When the only pull you got is the wool over your eyes Getting knowledge in jail like a blessing in disguise Look in the skies for god, what you see besides the smog Is broken dreams flying away on the wings of the obscene.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • God
  • Knowledge
  • Eyes

• Very many maintain that all we know is still infinitely less than all that still remains unknown.

  

  William Harvey
  • Knowledge
  • Knows
  • Stills

• An impersonal and scientific knowledge of the structure of our bodies is the surest safeguard against prurient curiosity and lascivious gloating.

  

  Marie Stopes
  • Knowledge
  • Curiosity
  • Structure