Entreats Quotes

#1. Whoever can do as he pleases, commands when he entreats.

Pierre Corneille

#2. I don't know anyone but television assassins and serial killers who've perfected the art of sounding deadly over the telephone as well as my mother has.

Adrianne Brooks

#3. Well, they say there is no real faith without doubt.

Lorna Jane Cook

#4. My generation of bossy, confident, baby-boom women were something brand new in history. Our energy and assertiveness weren't created by Betty Friedan, unknown before her 1963 book, or by Gloria Steinem, whose political activism, as even the Lifetime profile admitted, did not begin until 1969.

Camille Paglia

#5. We've got to learn hard things in our lifetime, but it's love that gives you the strength. It's being nice to people and having a lot of fun and laughing harder than anything, hopefully every single day of your life.

Dag Hammarskjold

#6. The experience may have been costly, but it was also priceless.

Peter George Peterson

#7. Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.

Ambrose Bierce

#8. My mother could never understand why I didn't write a thriller, which I've finally done.

Harry Mathews

#9. Proactive and productive change is something that does not come easy for most people, yet is one of the main reasons successful people succeed.

Michelle Moore

#10. She has been the keeper of home for me, and I have been the keeper of journey for her. And now we look for the lost portion in each other.

Sue Monk Kidd

#11. Do what you want to do, when you want to do it ... and not a moment sooner.

Oprah Winfrey

#12. We had pathetically simple dreams:
to do meaningful work that we could be proud of, to be together, and to be happy.

Tiffanie DeBartolo

#13. The effect of studying masterpieces is to make me admire and do otherwise. So it must be on every original artist to some degree, on me to a marked degree.
(from notes on 'Heraclitean Fire')

Gerard Manley Hopkins

#14. I've caught a glimpse of him in dreams:
expert hunter of himself,
every minute in ambush.

Antonio Machado