Miscellaneous Quotes - Page 10

• To some of us, hunger was more academic than real, but we must try to develop the ability to feel the urgency of such a situation.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Real, Trying, Hunger

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• An economic policy which does not consider the well-being of all will not serve the purposes of peace and the growth of well-being among the people of all nations.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  People, Growth, Doe

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• One of the blessings of age is to learn not to part on a note of sharpness, to treasure the moments spent with those we love, and to make them whenever possible good to remember, for time is short.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Blessing, Age, Treasure

  Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (1989). “Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: Her Acclaimed Columns, 1936-1945”

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• I would not be happy unless I had some regular work to do every day and I imagine that I will always feel that way no matter how old I am.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Matter, Way, Imagine

  Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (2009). “My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962”, p.98, Da Capo Press

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• I think we ought to impress on both our girls and boys that successful marriages require just as much work, just as much intelligence and just as much unselfish devotion, as they give to any position they undertake to fill on a paid basis.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Girl, Successful, Thinking

  Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (2009). “My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962”, p.53, Da Capo Press

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• One should always sleep in all of one's guest beds, to make sure that they are comfortable.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Sleep, Advice, Bed

  Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (1989). “Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: Her Acclaimed Columns, 1936-1945”

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• Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade.

  Noel Coward

  Witty, Writing, Caviar

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• There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Hate, If There Is A God, Christian Inspirational

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• The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.

  L.P. Hartley

  Country, Memories, Future

  "The Go-Between". Book by L.P. Hartley, 1953.

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• We did make use, from time to time, of candles, neckties, scarves, shoelaces, a little water-color paintbrush, her hairbrush, butter, whipped cream, strawberry jam, Johnson’s Baby Oil, my Swedish hand vibrator, a fascinating bead necklace she had, miscellaneous common household items, and every molecule of flesh that was exposed to air or could be located with strenuous search.

  Spider Robinson

  Baby, Air, Hands

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• Besides, in this random miscellaneous company we may rub against some complete stranger who will, with luck, turn into the best friend we have in the world.

  Virginia Woolf

  Luck, World, May

  Virginia Woolf (2009). “Selected Essays”, p.311, OUP Oxford

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• We’re never gonna understand women. They’re way too complex. You’ve got too many variables to consider. PMS, bad hair days, miscellaneous mood swings . . . there’s no way to tell what’s causing their attitude. - Mike

  Susane Colasanti

  Attitude, Hair, Swings

  Susane Colasanti (2008). “When It Happens”, p.176, Penguin

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• It had been the longest time since she had had a rib-scraping laugh. She had forgotten how deep and down it could be. So different from the miscellaneous giggles and smiles she had learned to be content with these past few years.

  Toni Morrison

  Past, Years, Laughing

  Toni Morrison (1987). “Sula”

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• The essential thing is not knowledge, but character.

  Joseph LeConte

  Inspirational, Character, Essentials

  Joseph LeConte (1896). “Evolution: Its Nature, Its Evidences, and Its Relation to Religious Thought”

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• I resolve never to make any resolutions because all resolutions are restrictions for the future. All resolutions are imprisonments.

  Rajneesh

  Resolution, Restriction, Resolve

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• Good writers are in the business of leaving signposts saying, Tour my world, see and feel it through my eyes; I am your guide.

  Larry L. King

  Eye, Writing, Leaving

  Larry L. King (1987). “None but a blockhead: on being a writer”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• Many birds and beasts are...as fit to go to Heaven as many human beings - people who talk of their seats there with as much confidence as if they had booked them at a box office.

  Leigh Hunt

  Animal, People, Office

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• My music is best understood by children and animals.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Children, Animal, Pet

  In Observer 8 Oct. 1961

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• As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.

  Po Bronson

  Inspirational, People, I've Learned

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• I shall not let a sorrow die Until I find the heart of it, Nor let a wordless joy go by Until it talks to me a bit.

  Sara Teasdale

  Heart, Joy, Sorrow

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• A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal.

  William Allen White

  Mistake, Doe, Littles

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• The chief characteristics of the [liberal] attitude are human sympathy, a receptivity to change, and a scientific willingness to follow reason rather than faith.

  Chester Bowles

  Attitude, Reason, Characteristics

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• Rather perish than hate and fear, and twice rather perish than make oneself hated and feared — this must some day become the highest maxim for every single commonwealth.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Hate, Maxims, Commonwealth

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.52, Penguin

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• Undoubtedly the desire for food has been and still is one of the main causes of political events.

  Bertrand Russell

  Political, Desire, Events

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.447, Routledge

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• We understand nature by resisting it.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Resisting

  Gaston Bachelard (2002). “The formation of the scientific mind”, Clinamen Press Ltd.

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