Quotes & Sayings About Baptista In Taming Of The Shrew

We are domesticated animals, revolving in a cage which we have built for ourselves - with its contentions, wranglings, its impossible political leaders, its gurus who exploit our self-conceit and their own with great refinement or rather crudely. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

The tree that never had to fight
for sun and sky and air and light
but stood out in the open plain
and always got it share of rain,
never became a forest king
but lived and died a scrubby thing.
Good timber does not grow with ease.
The stronger wind, the stronger trees. — Douglas Malloch

It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness. — E. M. Forster

Blocks usually stem from fear of being judged. If you imagine the world is listening, you'll never write a line. — Erica Jong

Sometimes ten seconds is all it takes to change the course of a life. Julia — Elizabeth Camden

"And when you had made sure of the poor little fool," said my aunt - "God forgive me that I should call her so, and she gone where YOU won't go in a hurry - because you had not done wrong enough to her and hers, you must begin to train her, must you? begin to break her, like a poor caged bird, and wear her deluded life away, in teaching her to sing YOUR notes?" — Charles Dickens

Montpellier produced nearly 40 percent of all physicians in France, but the university had a troubled reputation as a party school where medical students were just as likely to drink and cavort with prostitutes as they were to learn the intricacies of the Hippocratic corpus. — Holly Tucker

He Who Owns Himself Is Never Alone. — Unknown

Love is a response to values. The amoralist's actual self-appraisal is revealed in his abnormal need to be loved (but not in the rational sense of the word) - to be "loved for himself," i.e., causelessly. James Taggart reveals the nature of such a need: "I don't want to be loved for anything. I want to be loved for myself - not for anything I do or have or say or think. For myself - not for my body or mind or words or works or actions." (Atlas Shrugged.) When his wife asks: "But then ... what is yourself?" he has no answer. — Ayn Rand

America knows it has got to deal with its deficit problems so that it, too, can promise it is making its proper and best contributions to the world economy. — Gordon Brown

No matter how quietly homophobia is whispered, it doesn't make it any less loud. You can't whisper hate, — Leisha Hailey