Gertrude Lawrence Quotes

#1. If my own experience had taught me anything, it was that, if a thing had to be done, it could be done.

Gertrude Lawrence

#2. In London I have been by turns poor and rich, hopeful and despondent, successful and down and out, utterly miserable and ecstatically, dizzily happy. I belong to London as each of us can belong to only one place on this earth. And, in the same way, London belongs to me.

Gertrude Lawrence

#3. what you loses on the swings you gain on the roundabouts

Gertrude Lawrence

#4. Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you. I'll not willingly offend, nor be easily offended.

Bruce Lee

#5. Our dependence outweighs our independence, for we are independent only in our desire, while we are dependent on our health, on nature, on society, on everything in us and outside us.

Henri Frederic Amiel

#6. Everything that has value has its price. Nothing worth having is ever handed to you gratis.

Gertrude Lawrence

#7. The holy word of God is on everyone's lips ... but ... we see almost everyone presenting their own versions of God's word, with the sole purpose of using religion as a pretext for making others think as they do.

Baruch Spinoza

#8. Hope is a feeling that life and work have meaning. You either have it or you don't, regardless of the state of the world that surrounds you.

Vaclav Havel

#9. The past hadn't been erased just because a new future had been handed it.

Susan Meissner

#10. Very few among us are noble, or even mature, in all parts of our nature at the same time.

Gertrude Lawrence

#11. There's an abiding interest by the United States, by the American people, and by anybody with his eyes set in his head, to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons.

Benjamin Netanyahu

#12. My mother sang me a lullaby,
my mother had not slept for a while,
her hands the same: craggy and agile.
the wooden ceiling emanated the same tie:
sulky fumes of disdain.
We were never given to forgetfulness,
We were occupied.

Ashfaq Saraf