Debela Barbara Quotes & Sayings

How the hell would she support herself and her mother if Agua Dulce's new owner built one of those mega service stations right next door? Or worse yet, right on top of them. — Anna Jeffrey

One flub, one little mistake, could ruin everything. — Embee

The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement. — John Stuart Mill

Despite her light skin, despite the obviousness that more of her ancestors had owned slaves than had been them, how could she lose? We're open like that. We like to know that people love us; we don't care how they look. — Tiphanie Yanique

Mother wanted me to come out in a kimono, so we had quite a fight. — Edith Bouvier Beale

When I wrote the words and I have the music, I felt, wow, you know, this has got to be right. I got to sing it right. — Stevie Wonder

Life is indefinite--a bundle of contradictions. We men, with our ideas, strive to give it a particular shape by melting it into a particular mould--into the definiteness of success. — Rabindranath Tagore

the greatest humourists are deep down usually angry men, who know that human nature ignores tirades, but is responsive to laughter. — Frank McLynn

Affordability is when you don't have to think about it. If you have to think about "affordability," you can't afford it because affordability carries conditions and consequences. — M.J. DeMarco

Don't cling so tenaciously to ties of the flesh; save your constancy and ardour for an adequate cause; forbear to waste them on trite transient objects. — Charlotte Bronte

Keynes tried to show that market economies could settle in equilibrium states in which the labour market did not clear, and in which the level of unemployment was high. He believed that this was due to a particular example of market failure, developed in his concept of effective demand. — Paul Ormerod

You need to see that you can compete with the best and win. You've got the right stuff, Joan Sanderson! — Virginia Smith