Janeite Quotes

#1. Where does this guy's ambition go? That's very peculiar. I think he's a very disturbing person, I think he's a very disturbing politician. Personally, I feel his interest is a self-interest

Helen Mirren

#2. I use my fiction to explore my own unconscious issues. I usually don't even know what's going on with me until I'm writing. That doesn't mean my books are autobiographical.

Janet Fitch

#3. And so my father changed his name to William Pretty and here he grew up and led an independent life. And if it was not happy, he didn't know it.

Annie Proulx

#4. Language, even more than color, defines who you are to people.

Trevor Noah

#5. Correctly identifying a negative emotion takes the brain out of fight-or-flight mode and into problem-solving mode, out of tension, anger and confusion and into ease, calm and clarity.

Sam Owen

#6. The greatest things to have can't be possessed, they exist within yet can be shared, like freedom, love, trust, integrity, fun, dreams, creativity, wisdom, peace.

Jay Woodman

#7. I'm not sure ministry can ever have the urgency it requires if it is not aware of evil, both externally and internally.

John Ortberg

#8. Wisdom doesn't come only from the experience you have had, but from the experience you have chosen not to have.

Anthony Marais

#9. It is a most repulsive quality, indeed,' said he. 'Oftentimes very convenient, no doubt, but never pleasing. There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.'
'Not till the reserve ceases towards oneself; and then the attraction may be the greater.

Jane Austen

#10. The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn but to unlearn.

Gloria Steinem

#11. I was big as a kid, very overweight. That caused a lot of insecurities for me growing up, and on top of that, I didn't like the idea of big crowds. I found it quite frightening. I enjoy the company of people who I know, and I'm probably still like that today.

Deborah Mailman