Quotes About Ruth

#1. Le mal de vivre, 'the pain of life.' Qu'll faut bien vivre ... 'that we must live with, or endure.' Vaille que vivre, this is difficult but it is something like 'we must live the life we have. We must soldier on.

Ruth Ozeki

#2. I always find the first thing that really bothers me when I start a screenplay is, I have to find a different form. You can't follow the form of the novel. It's a different thing completely. It's impossible. You just somehow have to find a structure for the whole thing. You have to crack that.

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

#3. Man is not committed in detail by his biological constitution to any particular variety of behavior.

Ruth Benedict

#4. Some other brown stuff that might not be mud into her tangled hair. All around, villagers wandered with their baskets of brightly colored eggs, looking for the perfect hiding places. Ruth Zardo sat on the bench in the middle of the green tossing

Louise Penny

#5. There was no one to comfort the children, no one to embrace them, no one to love them. Care and control were what the dormitories were all about, not love and affection.

Ruth Hegarty

#6. I think that all women, unless they are absolutely asleep, must be feminists up to a point.

Ruth Rendell

#7. I remembered a mantra that one of my teachers used to tell me at drama school, that every thought will pass across your face. Even if you're thinking about Shreddies the camera will read it.

Ruth Wilson

#8. I don't think I hate any food trends.

Ruth Reichl

#9. Are you happy?' she asked.
'Honour... I've been happy since the moment I met you.

Ruth Ahmed

#10. It was a mystery why the army bothered with a signal communication system when its men were so good at gossip.

Ruth Downie

#11. I think all characters are facets of the writer. In a way, they have to be if you're going to write them convincingly.

Ruth Ozeki

#12. If you pretend to belong, people often think you do.

Ruth Silver

#13. There's nothing worse than a leader who lacks ambition.

Ruth J. Simmons

#14. I don't like to see teenage men wearing very tight jeans. The sight of an erection belongs in the privacy of the bedroom, living room, or kitchen floor.

Ruth Westheimer

#15. And Ruth was the last person to whom a sensible Indian would hand a weapon.

Caroline B. Cooney

#16. The answer goes back to why God created us.He created us to be His loved ones,His family with whom He can share a relationship of mutual enjoyment. This shows the kind of God He is-a personal God who values loving relationships more than anything else in all the universe.

Ruth Myers

#17. Ruth Bader Ginsburg is the most liberal and illumined of the nine Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court.

Donna Leon

#18. Grampie's boat was a little double-ender, a model not built nowadays. She was narrow, so that she pitched and rolled something wicked in almost any sea. He could handle her, but he said she was probably the boat Christ got out of and walked away from on the water.

Ruth Moore

#19. I'd no room left in me for thinking of trifling things. I could feel fear start up and try to take down my rage, but I'd not give it up.

Anna Freeman

#20. I sang on Church Street, every place that had a stage.

Ruth Brown

#21. I wanted my eternity in carbon molecules, in being part of the trees, the sky, air itself

Ruth Ahmed

#22. The anxiety around such work [vulnerably written ethnographies] is that it will prove to be beyond criticism, that it will be undiscussable.

Ruth Behar

#23. I am a central European with an English education and a deplorable tendency to constant self-analysis. I am irritable and have weak nerves.

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

#24. Dorothy Allison's Bastard Out of Carolina is a coming-of-age novel about Ruth Ann (Bone) Boatwright and a difficult childhood made even harder by her violent and predatory stepfather.

Nancy Pearl

#25. I would like to think of my 'ignorance' less as a personal failing and more as a massive cultural trend, an example of doubling, of psychic numbing, that characterizes the end of the millennium. If we can't act on knowledge, then we can't survive without ignorance.

Ruth Ozeki

#26. How are we ever going to understand what happens when a civilization comes apart at the seams, as it did in Germany, if we fail to see the most glaring distinctions, such as the gender gap?

Ruth Kluger

#27. They say you cannot make a noise to annoy yourself ...

Ruth Rendell

#28. Suspense is my thing. I think I am able to make people want to keep turning pages. They want to know what happens.

Ruth Rendell

#29. You can plan ahead, you just can't worry ahead

Ruth Winter

#30. MAMA (Quietly, woman to woman)
He finally come into his manhood today, didn't he? Kind of like a rainbow after the rain ...
RUTH (Biting her lip, lest her own pride explode in front of Mama)
Yes, Lena.

Lorraine Hansberry

#31. There it was again: "Came in to see us", as if it were an enjoyable little day trip that lots of people made, just because it was such a nice place to be.

Ruth Mancini

#32. Never' is an unquantifiable and unrealistic amount of time.

Ruth Cardello

#33. He'd never said a single thing anyone objected to. Tapioca in a suit.

Ruth Cardello

#34. But by spring, she had again yielded to the tug and tide of his mind, allowing its currents to carry her back across the continent and wash them up on the remote shores of his evergreen island..

Ruth Ozeki

#35. As I bathe myself
I pray with all beings
that we can purify body and mind
and clean ourselves inside and out.

Ruth Ozeki

#36. I never was religious, really, but I'm very interested in religion.

Ruth Rendell

#37. Boredom is the biggest problem. The same position. Same day of the week. It becomes boring when you don't bring any added flowers home.

Ruth Westheimer

#38. Don't hate anyone," she had said. "It's quite useless and harms the hater while it does nothing at all to the hated.

Ruth Rendell

#39. When you put a seed in the ground, it doesn't stop growing after eight hours. It keeps going every minute that it's in the earth. We, too, need to keep growing every moment of every day that we are on this earth.

Ruth Asawa

#40. Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.

Ruth Benedict

#41. I do think that being a sort of celebrity and being well off does give me some responsibility.

Ruth Rendell

#42. To be a classic, a novel should be original.

Ruth Rendell

#43. Every day I am aware of the flow and constant change; perhaps I am at the edge of discovering what more our bodies might be able to teach about the spirit of life. At least, I am always exploring and trying to understand our relationship to the whole universe.

Ruth Bernhard

#44. Everything is one and I am one with it.

Ruth Bernhard

#45. It's hard to beat a person who never gives up.

Babe Ruth

#46. I have to blame myself for not finding any way of reaching him, but I can't feel that either Ruth or I had anything much to do with his corruption.
His personal motives were freedom and pleasure, and he misread them both.

Wallace Stegner

#47. Our financial services and insurance cluster is one of Delaware's key economic drivers in the state.

Ruth Ann Minner

#48. I am not yours, she thought. I am my own.

Ruth Warburton

#49. I am fond of saying that reading the Bible turned me into an atheist.

Ruth Hurmence Green

#50. The central paradox and challenge of marriage is that we have to make family out of someone we're not related to ...

Ruth Stout

#51. 'Nowhere Man' embodies one of my favorite themes - the hero completely out of his element. It's really near and dear to my heart.

Ruth Glick

#52. He who climbs a cliff may die on the cliff, so what? Always a risk-taker by nature, now I became one by intent.

Ruth Park

#53. I said on the equality side of it, that it is essential to a woman's equality with man that she be the decision-maker, that her choice be controlling.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

#54. Scientists construct facts by constantly making decisions about what they will consider significant, what experiments they should pursue, and how they will describe their observations.

Ruth Hubbard

#55. I couldn't live without butter. Butter is probably my single favourite food.

Ruth Reichl

#56. Don't stint on foreplay - or afterplay. Be inventive!

Ruth Westheimer

#57. There used to be a middle way, too, when her attention was focused but vast, and time felt like a limpid pool, ringed by sunlit ferns. An underground spring fed the pool from deep below, creating a gentle current of words that bubbled up, while on the surface, breezes shimmered and played.

Ruth Ozeki

#58. If I have chosen the female form in particular, it is because beauty has been debased and exploited in our sensual 20th century.

Ruth Bernhard

#59. It also felt like home, and she wasn't sure she liked it.

Ruth Ozeki

#60. I can't recall a day this year or last when I did not hear the name of Babe Ruth.

Hank Aaron

#61. My mind is like a gyre, and odd juxtapositions happen.

Ruth Ozeki

#62. The wondrous thing about nature, her gift to us, is her wanton promiscuity. She reproduces herself with abandon, with teeming infinite generosity.

Ruth Ozeki

#63. this is what temporial stuttering FEELS LIKE like a stut stut STUTTERY RUSHING FORWARD in TIME WITHOUT a MOMENT OR an INSTANT TO DISTINGUISH ONE INSTANCE from THE next GROWING EVER LOUDER AND LOUDER WITHOUT PUNCTUATION until SUDDENLY WITHOUT WARNING IT
stops.

Ruth Ozeki

#64. The time for arguing about the powers the people want is over. It's time now to use the powers that we have.

Ruth Davidson

#65. All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.

Babe Ruth

#66. Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it by use.

Ruth Gordon

#67. Oh kid, it's all about confidence. That's the whole shebang right there. Whatever you do, do it with your nuts. That's how Ruth swung a bat-with his nuts. Court a girl, rob a bank, brush your teeth, do it with and from your God-given nuts or don't do it at all.

J.R. Moehringer

#68. Maketa," I said, throwing myself down in the sand. "I lost. The ocean won."
She smiled. "Was it a good feeling?"
"Mm," I said.
"That's good," she said. "Have another rice ball?

Ruth Ozeki

#69. London underground took me on a tour of all the hidden places, the disused shafts and staircases ... that was very interesting.

Ruth Rendell

#70. In my heart, I am American, and I believe I have a free will and can take charge of my own destiny.

Ruth Ozeki

#71. Maybe she'll let me start wearing my Superman boxers again.

Ruth Cardello

#72. With Ted she was about to discover the God of Physical Love.

Walter Terry

#73. To me, cooking is man's natural activity. But I think writing is really hard. Certainly writing fiction is the hardest thing I've ever done.

Ruth Reichl

#74. Someone recently told me that there are no winners in a tragedy, only people struggling to survive the aftermath." "Can't

Ruth Cardello

#75. If you go back in American history, oysters were the food of poor people. New York was filled with oyster saloons in the 1800s.

Ruth Reichl

#76. When I first came to Yankee Stadium I used to feel like the ghosts of Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig were walking around in there.

Mickey Mantle

#77. Racism is an ism to which everyone in the world today is exposed; for or against, we must take sides. And the history of the future will differ according to the decision which we make.

Ruth Benedict

#78. My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

#79. God gives me all the willingness I need today to sit quietly and listen.
from Time for Joy

Ruth Fishel

#80. We all did. But running away from it never made me feel better. Pretending it hadn't happened was slowly killing me." Sarah hugged the album to her chest, her eyes filling with tears again. "Thank you for this. Ignore the tears. You've made me

Ruth Cardello

#81. Anyone who has ever been an ugly adolescent - and we are legion - knows that the feeling of being unlovely and unlovable never goes away; it is always there, lurking just beneath the surface.

Ruth Reichl

#82. The first time you make something, follow the recipe, then figure out how to tailor it to your own tastes.

Ruth Reichl

#83. Each strikeout brings me closer to my next homerun.

Babe Ruth

#84. When you come to a place where you have to left or right,' says Sister Ruth, 'go straight ahead.

Kathleen Norris

#85. I don't say women's rights - I say the constitutional principle of the equal citizenship stature of men and women.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

#86. She felt anger rippling through his muscles and knew that she had stumbled upon an old, yet still raw, emotional scar.

Ruth Cardello

#87. It takes a long time to write a book. I'm not going to spend that much time trying to deliver a message. The reason I do it is because I want to understand something myself. It's not a delivery device, it's an inquiry device. Didactic fiction to my mind never works. It backfires.

Ruth Ozeki

#88. There is no scientific proof that any food increases sexual drive.

Ruth Westheimer

#89. I believe in Scotland's place within the United Kingdom today as much as ever.

Ruth Davidson

#90. Try to look at everything through the eyes of a child.

Ruth Draper

#91. Everytime I think I want to be young again, I remember algebra and physics.

Ruth Brown

#92. Could Pesto be his own observer? Interesting question. He used to like to raise his leg and study his asshole. It didn't seem like this observation caused him to split into multiple cats with multiple assholes.

Ruth Ozeki

#93. Prodigals are not limited in gender, race, age or color. They do have one thing in common: They have left home, and they are missed. Ruth Bell Graham

James Banks

#94. Ruth knew very well what the killer thought he had heard: he'd heard the sound of someone trying not to make a sound - that's what he'd heard.

John Irving

#95. Crimes are more often committed out of fear than wickedness. People live frightened, desperate lives.

Ruth Rendell

#96. APPRECIATION IN ANY FORM AT ANY TIME BRIGHTENS ANYONE'S EXISTENCE.

Ruth Stafford Peale

#97. Have you ever bullied a wave?

Ruth Ozeki

#98. As we rise higher in the understanding of ourselves, the national and racial dissonances will be forgotten in the universal rhythms of Truth and Love.

Ruth St. Denis

#99. In really good times, you say, 'No, I'm not taking that ad.' But in bad times, you'll take anything.

Ruth Reichl

#100. I grew up in an area of Ireland where there weren't many black or mixed-race children. But I never had any hassle; maybe I've blocked it out, but I don't think so.

Ruth Negga