Overvaluing Quotes

#1. I think that those of us who are what are called intellectuals make a terrible mistake in overvaluing the yen we have for the arts, books, etc. There is a sweet, fine quality in life that has nothing to do with this, and more and more I find myself valuing myself with those people.

Sherwood Anderson

#2. All through childhood, I wrote verses and mysteries. There is, for me, one connection: structure. My poetry is metrical, rhyming.

Sophie Hannah

#3. She chose a very pale teal, halfway between blue and green, with a white silk fichu at the neck.

Anne Perry

#4. I do wear a lot of hats, and sometimes people get confused with all that I do, but one thing that I am extraordinarily passionate about is furthering women's rights. I think it's something that's incredibly important, not just for girls everywhere but also boys to get involved in.

Adora Svitak

#5. I wasn't that bothered with school; I was too mad into horses. But I liked reading and was good enough at English and always liked music.

Kate Thompson

#6. Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.

David Lloyd George

#7. Africa must take the first steps into modernity on its own. There must be a change in mentality. We have to stop perceiving ourselves as beggars.

James Shikwati

#8. A novel according to my taste, does not come into the moderately good class unless it contains some person whom one can thoroughly love - and if a pretty woman, all the better.

Charles Darwin

#9. To all the women and the men who ever loved me just a little.

Ana Castillo

#10. You always feel when you look it straight in the eye that you could have put more into it, could have let yourself go and dug harder.

Emily Carr

#11. As much as it hurts my soul to say this, and yes, I believe I have a soul full of glitter and rainbows, I don't think you're giving him enough credit, he said, and if I wasn't already sitting down, I would've fallen down.

Jennifer L. Armentrout