Beautiful Broken Virginia Quotes & Sayings

Gender preference does not define you. Your spirit defines you. — P.C. Cast

The man of business knows that only by years of patient, unremitting attention to affairs can he earn his reward, which is the result, not of chance, but of well-devised means for the attainment of ends. — Andrew Carnegie

So I went into government with a clear mind about what the problems were, and what needed to be done. — Vince Cable

And since beauty must be broken daily to remain beautiful, and he is static, his life stagnates in a china sea. — Virginia Woolf

More people were in love with her than with any one I've ever known. She had that power - she enjoyed things. She wasn't beautiful, but - I don't know how she did it. She often spoke in broken sentences and seemed very sad. Yet she got on with every kind of person, and then she made it all so amazingly - funny — Virginia Woolf

Of course, it does depend on the people, but sometimes I'm invited places to kind of brighten up a dinner table like a musician who'll play the piano after dinner, and I know you're not really invited for yourself. You're just an ornament. — Marilyn Monroe

But when the door shuts on us, all that vanishes. The shell-like covering which our souls have excreted to house themselves, to make for themselves a shape distinct from others, is broken, and there is left of all these wrinkles and roughnesses a central oyster of perceptiveness, an enormous eye. How beautiful a street is in winter! — Virginia Woolf

Wellbeing is attained by little and little, and nevertheless is no little thing itself. — Citium Zeno

All decisions we've come to accept as right or wrong are ingrained in us from the society in which we abide. Rights and wrongs are not universally known or transferable. — John-Talmage Mathis

But beauty must be broken daily to remain beautiful ... — Virginia Woolf

I loved acting, which was never about money, the fame. It was about a search for meaning. It was painful. — Kim Novak

Among the conservative Greek opinion there would be no regrets that Alexander the Greek leader was invading the barbarians. — Robin Lane Fox