Quotes About Bakewell

#1. It is always easy to be logical. It is almost impossible to be logical to the bitter end.

Albert Camus

#2. Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.)

Sarah Bakewell

#3. Tell a lie enough times and it becomes the truth

Er.teji

#4. Seneca did this too: Place before your mind's eye the vast spread of time's abyss, and consider the universe; and then contrast our so-called human life with infinity.

Sarah Bakewell

#5. Research suggests that about 40 percent of our behavior is repeated almost daily, and mostly in the same context.

Gretchen Rubin

#6. Harvard produces leaders. People with Harvard degrees go on to become administrators in high-level positions in state educational departments and in public schools around the country.

Christina Hoff Sommers

#7. For the most part I pick movies based on the merit of the script, and the merit of the script only.

Amber Heard

#8. Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom',

Sarah Bakewell

#9. To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage, or of principle.

Confucius

#10. There were definitely dark nights when you're like, 'Maybe joining the military wasn't such a good idea.' But, in a way, it was the best training to be an actor.

Adam Driver

#11. for Arendt, if you do not respond adequately when the times demand it, you show a lack of imagination and attention that is as dangerous as deliberately committing an abuse.

Sarah Bakewell

#12. As history has repeatedly suggested, nothing is more effective for demolishing traditional legal protections than the combined claims that a crime is uniquely dangerous, and that those behind it have exceptional powers of resistance. [On witchburning in France during the 16th Century.]

Sarah Bakewell

#13. Ultimately, I believe the only secret to a happy marriage is choosing the right person. Life is a series of choices, right?

Michelle Pfeiffer

#14. I really struggle with that feeling of helplessness. That's why I really try to get my blogs, and even myself, to point to the positive and look at all the inspiring things that are happening.

Daryl Hannah

#15. Wisdom consists in knowing what not to want as well as what to want.

Napoleon Hill

#16. Each man is a good education to himself, provided he has the capacity to spy on himself from close up.

Sarah Bakewell

#17. I grew up thinking that renting is perfectly normal. And then, strangely enough, I never did buy a house. I live in New York City, and I'm still renting. My own personal narrative shows that it is possible to live a respectable life without ever having owned a home.

Edmund Phelps

#18. You should make your choices as though you were choosing on behalf of the whole of humanity,

Sarah Bakewell

#19. There are many ways to grow football-wise. You go slow or are pushed to go faster, otherwise you get left behind. For me, there would be trouble in stopping learning.

Wayne Rooney

#20. A lot of people can't be on their own. They get frightened. Isolation doesn't bother me at all. It gives me a sense of security.

Jimmy Page

#21. Ideas are interesting, but people are vastly more so.

Sarah Bakewell

#22. Whatever is to make us better and happy God has placed either openly before us or close to us.

Seneca The Younger

#23. Seneca put it, life does not pause to remind you that it is running out.

Sarah Bakewell

#24. Each holy temple stands as a symbol of our membership in the Church, as a sign of our faith in life after death, and as a sacred step toward eternal glory for us and our families.

Russell M. Nelson