Lady Miss Kier Quotes

#1. And yet she was content to pair off with this dull young adventurer in the tarnished lace! It was, he supposed, the sort of thing to be expected of a sex that all philosophy had taught him to regard as the maddest part of a mad species.

Rafael Sabatini

#2. I was and am, like many women, both pro-life and pro-choice.

Patricia Schroeder

#3. There are so many examples of people who have flourished by keeping their nose to the grindstone and doing their thing. Be persistent and don't give up.

Stephnie Weir

#4. As cliche as this sounds, no one is going to live your life for you. You owe it to yourself to pay attention to what makes you happy and to do it. You have to trust your inner barometer of pleasure, and tune your life to that.

Joshua David Swift

#5. I suppose it is because woman's courage is mental and man's physical, that in times of great strain women always make the better showing.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

#6. Don't you believe that the punishment should fit the crime? Isn't that what justice is? Letely, though, I wonder if we've gotten more into vengenance than justice.

Whoopi Goldberg

#7. Don't you wonder sometimes," Miranda asked, "whether women have all the power or no power at all?

David Burr Gerrard

#8. Political power, properly so called, is merely the organised power of one class for oppressing another.

Karl Marx

#9. God created war so that Americans would learn geography.

Mark Twain

#10. It is not Atlas who carries the world on his shoulders, but woman; and sometimes she plays with it as with a ball.

Henryk Sienkiewicz

#11. Living so fully, I can't imagine what any drug could do for me.

Joan Baez

#12. Zen is a double-edged sword, killing words and thoughts, yet at the same time, giving them life. Although beyond human intellect and philosophy, Zen is their root and source.

Masao Abe

#13. Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.

Thomas Sowell

#14. In autobiography, as in all literature, what actually happened is less important than what the author can manage to persuade his audience to believe

Salman Rushdie

#15. People who add value to others do so intentionally. I say that because to add value, leaders must give of themselves, and that rarely occurs by accident.

John C. Maxwell