What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat? ~Friedrich Nietzsche
#quotes #friedrich-nietzsche #love #cat

I don't mean to imply that we are in imminent danger of being wiped off the face of the earth; at least, not on account of global warming. But climate change does confront us with profound new realities. We face these new realities as a nation, as members of the world community, as consumers, as producers, and as investors. And unless we do a better job of adjusting to these new realities, we will pay a heavy price. We may not suffer the fate of the dinosaurs. But there will be a toll on our environment and on our economy, and the toll will rise higher with each new generation. ~Eileen Claussen
#quotes #eileen-claussen #environment #climate-change

Proverbs are the lamps to words. ~Arabic Proverb
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If you weren't pretty, it wouldn't matter what you said or didn't say. That's why you're getting this attention. ~Miesha Tate
#quotes #miesha-tate #women #attention

Men easily believe what they want to. ~Latin Proverb
#proverbs #latin-proverbs #believe

A son is a son till he gets him a wife, but a daughter is a daughter the rest of your life. ~Proverb
#proverbs #children #daughters

The main courtyard was filled with warriors, mermen with fish tails from the waist down and human bodies from the waist up, except their skin was blue, which I'd never known before. Some were tending the wounded. Some were sharpening spears and swords. One passed us, swimming in a hurry. His eyes were bright green, like that stuff they put in glo-sticks, and his teeth were shark teeth. They don't show you stuff like that in "The Little Mermaid. ~Rick Riordan
#quotes #rick-riordan #the-little-mermaid

The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass. ~Zen Proverb
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The wide world was changing, and she wanted a different place in it. Not just wanted, but felt she deserved. If the world didn't owe her a living, as her mother repeatedly warned her, it owed her a break. She had a strong sense that a better, more exciting, more rewarding life than that which had been the lot of her parents and grandparents was hers by right. In this she was guilty of nothing more serious than the arrogance of youth, from which every generation suffers and by which it distinguishes itself from the preceding one. ~James Robertson
#quotes #james-robertson #world #struggle

I do all my own make-up, it takes me 10 minutes. ~Joan Collins
#quotes #joan-collins #make-up

America's great newspapers have staffs that range from 50 percent to 70 percent of what they were just a few years ago. ~Eric Alterman
#quotes #eric-alterman #media #newspapers

That's the fun thing about making movies is that you get to do stuff. You get to be things, say things that you're not, kind of walk in someone else's shoes and play dress up and make believe. It's pretty cool. ~Mark Webber
#quotes #mark-webber #movies

Take the sum of human achievement in action, in science, in art, in literature subtract the work of the men above forty, and while we should miss great treasures, even priceless treasures, we would practically be where we are today. The effective, moving, vitalizing work of the world is done between the ages of twenty-five and forty. ~William Osler
#quotes #william-osler #human #achievement

There would be no idling in a co-operative workshop. Each workman, being an employer, has a spur to his own industry, and has a pecuniary reason for being watchful of the industry of his fellow workmen. ~Leland Stanford
#quotes #leland-stanford #industry

A busy mother makes slothful daughters. ~Portuguese Proverbs
#proverbs #portuguese-proverbs #laziness

I think that it is expansive for the mind, for the fantasy of children and grownups alike, to understand that the world is huge. There is so much in the world to experience, and the odds are so essential to life. ~Jessye Norman
#quotes #jessye-norman #mind #experience #world

It is better to live one day as a lion, than a thousand days as lamb. ~Roman Proverb
#proverbs #roman-proverbs #power

Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get. ~H. Jackson Brown Jr.
#quotes #h-jackson-brown-jr #children #marriage #gardening

I watched her for a long time, memorizing her shoulders, her long-legged gait. This was how girls left. They packed up their suitcases and walked away in high heels. They pretended they weren't crying, that it wasn't the worst day of their lives. That they didn't want their mothers to come running after them, begging their forgiveness, that they wouldn't have gone down on their knees and thanked god if they could stay. ~Janet Fitch
#quotes #janet-fitch

So, after school, I needed to learn a trade and started to work as a tailor. ~Desmond Dekker
#quotes #desmond-dekker #work

We were never the family that ordered pizza, and my mom never came home with a bucket of fried chicken. My mom always made home-cooked meals. We always sat down at the dinner table as a family. ~Haylie Duff
#quotes #haylie-duff #family #cooking #pizza

As a writer, I demand the right to write any character in the world that I want to write. I demand the right to be them, I demand the right to think them and I demand the right to tell the truth as I see they are. ~Quentin Tarantino
#quotes #quentin-tarantino #writing #character

A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. ~Greek Proverb
#proverbs #greek-proverbs #society #trees

Great men simplify great principles and make them easily intelligible to ordinary men ~Tunku Abdul Rahman
#quotes #tunku-abdul-rahman #knowledge

Giving your son a skill is better than giving him one thousand pieces of gold. ~Chinese Proverb
#proverbs #chinese-proverbs #skills #gold