Christabel Quotes

#1. I paused, folding the top corner of the page to keep my place. My dad used to wince every time he saw me do that, but I think books should be loved to pieces. They should be as worn and soft as flannel."
"Chapter 2 Christabel, page 24

Alyxandra Harvey

#2. You're our best hope."
"If you call me Obi-Wan I'm going to kick you."
He grinned. "Hot. say Obi-Wan again."
I laughed, shoving his shoulder. "Shut up.

Alyxandra Harvey

#3. It is our duty to make this world a better place for women.

Christabel Pankhurst

#4. People are led to reason thus: a woman who is a wife is one who has made a permanent sex bargain for her maintenance; the woman who is not married must therefore make a temporary bargain of the same kind.

Christabel Pankhurst

#5. There were some Labourists saying that other things must be dealt with before women got the vote. It was humanly natural that they, as men, should say so. Our business as women was to recognize this and act accordingly.

Christabel Pankhurst

#6. It is said that one should not hesitate to correct himself when he has made a mistake. If he corrects himself without the least bit of delay, his mistakes will disappear.

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

#7. Coleridge perceived as no one else had done that lesbianism could be a source of the sublime.

Andrew Elfenbein

#8. Now, we're Americans. Technically, who is from this country? Only the Indians, who we graciously let dwell on their native casinos.

Greg Proops

#9. Never lose your temper with the Press or the public is a major rule of political life.

Christabel Pankhurst

#10. The Chronic represented everything that I hated about hip-hop as a fan, but then later represented everything that I stood for as a musician and engineer.

Questlove

#11. I hadn't had a chance to read an entire novel in weeks.
Whatever the others might say about politics, civil war, and hunters, the real evil was lack of reading time. If they all read more they might freak out less. And if I was going to live forever I was going to have to start a reading list.

Alyxandra Harvey

#12. I've got kids that are always watching and I taught them to always finish something you started.

Ray Lewis

#13. Women have suffered too much from the Conspiracy of Silence to allow that conspiracy to last one minute longer. It has been an established and admitted rule in the medical profession to keep a wife in ignorance of the fact that she has become the victim of venereal disease.

Christabel Pankhurst

#14. When you think of the 'Exorcist,' you think of Linda Blair and pea soup and all this madness, but really if you look at the first half of that film, the stuff between her and Ellen Burstyn is so naturalistic and so real.

Matt Reeves

#15. To Become what you Believe, You must first Believe in what you have yet to Become

Joe Goodrich

#16. The trans-rational spiritual approach is a simple concept with wide-ranging practical implications. There are three major components involved: (1) not denying rationality, (2) pursuing the experience of a peaceful internal state, and (3) allowing that inner peace to guide behavior.

Gudjon Bergmann

#17. Remember the dignity of your womanhood. Do not appeal, do not beg, do not grovel. Take courage, join hands, stand besides us, fight with us.

Christabel Pankhurst

#18. The transformation of capitalism is unstoppable because we need limits on resources for humans to survive.

Graciela Chichilnisky

#19. Well, as to that, all I'll say is, you can't take out a fellow's heart before he's ready to give it up.

Louis Bayard

#20. You need to change your mind from sell sell sell to help help help and if you can do that as a business you will win in social media

Mark Schaefer

#21. Pitching is always a weird, difficult thing.

J.J. Abrams

#22. As leaders, we become whole when we see that our focused, singular commitment to making the numbers and the metrics cannot be effective on its own, but only when it is part of the whole picture - only when we see that it takes more than metrics to make up the whole.

Lance Secretan