Dame Ninette De Valois Quotes & Sayings

Life doesn't have to be a freeform stream of consciousness, where any thought that comes into our heads is entertained. — Sheila Wray Gregoire

We're both in a rut. And when two people have the different open wounds, they can relate and try to heal each other. Maybe it'll be the same for Kayla and me. It'll be a long a run, but we might as well try. — Simi Sunny

Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy love is better than wine. — Anonymous

No one knows what he is doing so long as he is acting rightly; but of what is wrong one is always conscious. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

If there is some aspect of creation you find you do not enjoy, bless it and simply change it. Choose again. Call forth a new reality. Think a new thought. Say a new word. Do a new thing. — Neale Donald Walsch

It's wonderful to play around with fantasy, because there are an amazing number of as-yet-unbroken rules out there. — Lev Grossman

Adultery is not a crime, it's an amusement. — Kathleen Winsor

When I was growing up, there was still that narrative of 'you finish school, you go and get married, you become somebody's wife and you get kids and tend to them.' I think it is really important to reach for something. — Juliana Rotich

If tomorrow all of America were to become paternalistic, we would beat the Japanese every day of the week. I think that the concept of accusing someone of running a paternalistic company, that's not an accusation. One should compliment someone on that. — Leonard Lauder

The actuality of Nature is like the beauty of Nature. We can scarcely describe the beauty of a landscape as non-existent when there is no conscious being to witness it; but it is through consciousness that we can attribute a meaning to it. And so it is with the actuality of the world. If actuality means 'known to mind' then it is a purely subjective character of the world; to make it objective we must substitute 'knowable to mind'. — Arthur Stanley Eddington

It is worth discussing radical changes, not in the expectation that they will be adopted promptly but for two other reasons. One is to construct an ideal goal, so that incremental changes can be judged by whether they move the institutional structure toward or away from that ideal. The other reason is very different. It is so that if a crisis requiring or facilitating radical change does arise, alternatives will be available that have been carefully developed and fully explored. — Milton Friedman

When I first was exposed to Buddhism in the mid-1960s, I said it was so practical and utterly pragmatic. That's what attracted me to Buddhism. — Joan Halifax

The triumph of the industrial arts will advance the cause of civilization more rapidly than its warmest advocates could have hoped, and contribute to the permanent prosperity and strength of the country far more than the most splendid victories of successful war. — Charles Babbage

My face is in his neck and I think if I was going to cry, this would be the perfect place to do it — Nyrae Dawn