English En
  • Deutsche De
  • English En
  • Français Fr
  • Русский Ru

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our marketing and analytics partners who may combine it with other information you've provided to them or which they've separately collected from you. You also may to see our Privacy Policy. By clicking the OK button below, you accept our cookies.

Authors:

Doing Quotes (page 988)

Lesson learned? When people say, "You really, really must" do something, it means you don't really have to. No one ever says, "You really, really must deliver the baby during labor." When it's true, it doesn't need to be said. Tina Fey
Winston Churchill quote: "I love to learn but I do not want to be taught"
I love to learn but I do not want to be taught Winston Churchill
This parting cannot be for long; for those who love as we do cannot be parted. We shall always be united in thought, and thought is a great magnet. I have often spoken to thee of reason, now i speak to thee of faith Barbara Taylor Bradford
Jean Piaget quote: "Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do."
Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do. Jean Piaget
She said nothing, and Sir Andrew, too, was silent, yet those two young people understood one another, as young people have a way of doing all the world over, and have done since the world began. Baroness Orczy
My dad (Scott Swift) believed in me, even when I didn't. He always knew I could do this. I’m sure that everyone in Reading remembers how much he talked about me. I thought that was sweet, but really I just wasn’t as sure it would happen. So, I just love my dad for believing in his little girl. Taylor Swift
[…]Frisbee people won’t let it go. My theory is that this is because there’s a huge overlap between people who are good at Frisbee and people who do Teach for America. Mindy Kaling
We should seek at all times to purify ourselves and to lead such worthy lives that the Light of Christ emanates from us in all that we say and do. M. Russell Ballard
But no one can lose sight of what he desires. Even if there are moments when he believes the world and the others are stronger. The secret is this: do not surrender. Paulo Coelho
George Orwell quote: "Listen. The more men you’ve had, the more I love you. Do you..."
Listen. The more men you’ve had, the more I love you. Do you understand that? George Orwell
William Blake quote: "Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache: do be my enemy..."
Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache: do be my enemy for friendship's sake. William Blake
But if you convey to a woman that something ought to be done, there is always a dreadful danger that she will suddenly do it. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Some lurid things have been said about me—that I am a racist, a hopeless alcoholic, a closet homosexual and so forth—that I leave to others to decide the truth of. I'd only point out, though, that if true these accusations must also have been true when I was still on the correct side, and that such shocking deformities didn't seem to count for so much then. Arguing with the Stalinist mentality for more than three decades now, and doing a bit of soapboxing and street-corner speaking on and... Christopher Hitchens
Suzanne Collins quote: "I guess there isn’t a rule book for what might be unacceptable..."
I guess there isn’t a rule book for what might be unacceptable to do to another human being. Suzanne Collins
If you try to write posthumously, however, fashion doesn’t apply. You step off the catwalk, ignoring this season’s trends and resigning yourself to being unfashionable and possibly unnoticed, at least for a while. As Kurt Woolf, Kafka’s first publisher in Germany, wrote to him after Kafka’s book tanked, “You and we know that it is generally just the best and most valuable things that do not find their echo immediately.” Fashion is the attempt to evade that principle: to be the echo of someone... Jeffrey Eugenides

Popular Topics

Popular Author